(05-21-2019 06:22 PM)RutgersGuy Wrote:  No, they don't. No matter how you try and spin it VT does not deliver the DC market. You don't get the carriage fees for DC when you are closer to Tennessee than DC. Thats not how it works at all.

FWIW, speaking as someone who lived in the DC area for 20 years and still regularly visits family there, both VT and WVU have a decent presence in the DC area. Especially if you are on the Northern Virginia side, you see a lot of folks walking around wearing VT or WVU jackets and stickers on their cars. Much more than say UVA, which has a much more elite profile. There's no doubt but that many VT and WVU graduates move to the DC area for work.

That said, neither VT (nor WVU, had they been invited to the ACC) can make up for the loss of Maryland. Maryland has *oceans* of fans and alumni in the DC area, they made the DC area a thoroughly ACC environment for decades.