(11-26-2013 03:41 PM)BE4evah Wrote:  The best thatI can figure is that Jim Delaney in picking Rutgers wants to get the Big Ten network on basic cable in New Jersey, New York City and southast Connecticut.

If the Big Ten can do that it it would get more than 7,000,000 homes in NewYork City alone.At $1 per subscriber that's $7 million a month or $84 million a year.

However, will New York wnt to pay that much? Over on the UConn board they are mocking Rutgers basketball attendance. At Rutgers last basketball game, only 300 fans showed up. How is Jim Delaney going to convince cable tv companies to pay for a Rutgers product?

Even on the Syracuse board their fans are harping on the number of Syracuse fans compared to Rutgers fans especially at places like the garden.

Does anybody have any insit into what the negotiations might look like? Can the Big Ten sell Rutgers to the cable companies? Can the Big Ten expext to get $1 per subscriber? Do you think they will have to take less?

Rutgers doesn't have the name brand, product on the fball field, and on the bball court to deliver a significant amount of its market to the B10. Cuse would have been a better choice in my opinion. In fact, the B10 could/should have added Cuse and Rutgers.