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Originally Posted by Swaggs
Again. Haven't heard anything about Temple and just hearing some early rumblings about Rutgers to the Big 12.
I was just thinking outside the box and, if you look at market penetration, the combination of having WVU, Temple, and Rutgers would give the Big 12 a toe-hold in Pennsylvania (WVU has decent enough viewership that the Pittsburgh Fox/Root affiliate shows all of our press conferences, shows non-ESPN/ABC football and basketball games, and has begun showing some different programs in the past year) and New Jersey. Two well-populated states (with relatively high in-state tuition costs) that might increase exposure and applications to some of the Big 12 (and particularly Texas) schools on the East Coast.
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Originally Posted by Swaggs
Again. Haven't heard anything about Temple and just hearing some early rumblings about Rutgers to the Big 12.
I was just thinking outside the box and, if you look at market penetration, the combination of having WVU, Temple, and Rutgers would give the Big 12 a toe-hold in Pennsylvania (WVU has decent enough viewership that the Pittsburgh Fox/Root affiliate shows all of our press conferences, shows non-ESPN/ABC football and basketball games, and has begun showing some different programs in the past year) and New Jersey. Two well-populated states (with relatively high in-state tuition costs) that might increase exposure and applications to some of the Big 12 (and particularly Texas) schools on the East Coast.
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Rutgers and Temple don't get you Pennsylvania. Might nominally give you New York-ish exposure from Rutgers, but even that's extremely limited. Temple football has no ink, basketball a bit more so but not much more.
As a Jersey native fan only, I sincerely hope it never happens. It's a bad fit academically and regionally.