Heinous:
UNC was under no pressure to move. Just because a few fans sent panicky emails to Bubba doesn't mean squat. It's been researched, it makes no sense or cents for UNC to move. If it makes no sense for Carolina, it makes no sense for UVa. UVa needs nothing from the B10 - the B10 is "blue collar" to UVa and your brats would clash with their wine, cheese, and caviar.
Second, the bomb has already gone off in the Midwest.
http://www.centerforpolitics.org/crystal...the-house/
Since 1990 the states of Indiana, Iowa, Michigan, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Illinois, Ohio, Michigan, Pa, have lost 13 Congressional seats in the house while the states of Va, NC, Ga, Florida, and Texas have gained 14 seats. Each seat represents about 700K people. That's 9.8 million people moving to those states, primarily from B10 country. You have lost 9.1 million compared to the other states a change in status of 19 million.
At the citation above I noted where well respected political guru Larry Sabato has passed along recent work that projects B10 states to lose another 4 seats in 2020, and the five Southern States I noted to gain 5. A seat will probably represent about 800K then and the movement since 1990 will be the five Southern States adding 19 seats, and the 9 B10 states losing 17 seats since 1990. That's a total demographic shift of 29 million people over 30 years.
In particular Pa will have lost 4 seats, Ohio 4 seats, Michigan and Illinois 3 seats over 30 years, while Texas will have gained 8, NC 2, Va 1, Florida 4 and Ga 3.
Now assuming that Sabatto is correct and the projected shift six years from now is just a net 9 seats, and the shift for the 1990 - 2020 period is 36, the average shift will have been a net 12 seats each decade, so perhaps the net change of 9 represents a slowing of the shift but it's not a great slowing because the pace will have been 14, 13, and 9. Two more decades, even at a declining rate of net loses would see the old B10 area losing about 9 or 10 more seats. Now a 46 seat swing over 50 years will represent the net movement of almost 50,000,000 from old B10 country to the ACC/SEC states of VA, NC, Florida, and Texas.
What you are looking at is Georgia and NC having as much population as Ohio and Michigan and Florida having 50% more folks than Illinois.
I don't think the trends are "alarmist or propaganda".
Where you will see the effect is in the number of football players in those states and the socio-economic mix necessary to support the stadium sizes.
The Northeast has already undergone the transition away from producing a large number of B-5 type football players. Those kids are playing soccer, lacrosse, or basketball and specializing in one sport and the concussion issue will not make it any better.
But maybe the projects will turn around due to some societal change that reverses the Fordist industrial decline.