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RE: Maisel: B1G took Rutgers after Georgia Tech (?!?!) turned them down
(01-04-2018 11:19 AM)megadrone Wrote: (01-04-2018 10:48 AM)johnbragg Wrote: (01-04-2018 08:20 AM)penguino Wrote: (01-03-2018 11:18 PM)templefootballfan Wrote: Va & NC are now the #1 tarkets of B-10 & SEC, but there not intrested, so why waste your time.
NYC & Rutgers were always B-10 #1 targets, Nebraska sidetracked that plan.
Flipping MD was key, puts Va & NC at thier doorstep
Rutgers & ACC knew it was a done deal
This......GT was never in over RU.
Georgia Tech cracks open the ACC in a way that Maryland didn't. (Especially if it's Maryland *AND* Georgia Tech.) That puts UNC and UVA (the real prizes for the Big Ten) in play.
Rutgers is the 2AM last resort after you strike out with the core ACC schools that would bring the BTN to the entire south Atlantic region.
Rutgers was never school #12 or #13. But part of me feels that the cable boxes in NJ made us #14. GT alone would have been an island, and even GT with Maryland doesn't have the same feeling as GT, MD, UVa and UNC. That configuration would have been a winner for the Big 10.
B1G has pursued a marketing plan in the NY/DC corridor with its new members so I am skeptical that Rutgers wasn't an important part of the strategy.
They should have gone with another East Coast school like UConn instead of Nebraska. Get the B1G into New England.
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