(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:  

(02-16-2018 06:48 PM)mj4life Wrote:  Louisville,GT & VT are debatable. Either way we are talking about whether or not ECU adds value & it just doesn't

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

From a value perspective the pecking order is:
1. North Carollina
2. N.C. State
3. Duke

Wake Forest and East Carolina don't really have a shot. East Carolina's issue is that no network wants to pay big money for a 5th P school from a state of 9.5 million. They don't like paying for 5 in Texas and they have 32 million.

It's really as simple as that.