(02-20-2018 07:10 PM)CoastalJuan Wrote:  

(02-20-2018 03:40 PM)mj4life Wrote:  

(02-20-2018 03:07 PM)CoastalJuan Wrote:  

(02-19-2018 10:04 PM)mj4life Wrote:  

(02-19-2018 12:56 PM)CoastalJuan Wrote:  From a less biased point of view, (Mj4life and unc in your sig) Louisville, GT, and VT are not debatable. I would have answered differently a few years ago when they still had academics going for them.

No bias at all, What metrics in your mind make them a better add? But it still doesn't have anything to do with whether ECU adds value or not.

I'm looking at on-field results and viewership.

It does have something to do with whether ECU adds value. ECU is currently the best NC option (and better than SC and VA options for that matter) due to ACC exit fees.

You say that UNC would be the best option. I'm saying that if exit fees were not an issue, then they also wouldn't be an issue for the more valuable ACC teams.

If the SEC values adding a team in NC then yes UNC is the best option followed by NCSU. So their is no need to add ECU since you don't add much from a tv,academic or research perspective. You would be at the bottom of every meaninful category in the SEC

That would make me think that NC State would be the preferred option. I'm not sure how the tv numbers stack up (does UNC Chapel Hill have more eyeballs?), but they have not ruined their academic reputation so far, and they are even more competitive than ECU on the field recently.

But...again, I was talking about the AVAILABLE options in the region.

That means there are NO OPTIONS from the state of NC which is what I was talking about