(05-21-2019 04:00 PM)RutgersGuy Wrote:  

(05-21-2019 03:14 PM)Statefan Wrote:  The original premise is difficult to imagine because Duke, UNC, and NC State did not support the three schools at the same time. All three had a reason not to go for Syracuse, and all three had a reason to support VT. Swofford got rolled because he didn't check with the ptb in Chapel Hill. The ptb wanted VT for a myriad of reasons and Syracuse and BC be damned.

If VT was left at the alter again in 2003, then I think they end up in the Big 10. With the B10's TV strategy, VT carries the state of Virginia, plus DC for B10 purposes. VT in 2010 and 2012 could have been shoehorned into the AAU after Syracuse and Nebraska were forced out if the B10 as a block supported VT, if Delany and Mary Sue Coleman wanted that fig leaf. That's a move that hurts the ACC AND SEC.

No they wouldn't have and they aren't anywhere close to the DC market. They are on the complete other side of the state.

https://www.thevab.com/wp-content/upload...MA-Map.pdf

Take some time to look at the above DMA map. This was the B10's Bible back in the day.

VT delivers the State of VA, plus the DC/Hagerstown DMA, the NC Piedmont Triad, The TN/Va Tri-Cities, and Bluefield WVa. Delivers means the first, second, or third property in the particular market niche. UNC and NC State will be first in the Triad, VT will run third. UT will run first in the Tri-Cities, but VT second. WVa will run in Bluefield, but VT will run second. MD might run first in DC/Hagerstown, but VT will run second. That's roughly 12-13 million eyeballs - just what the B10 was seeking, and an addition that would please PSU.

Remember the B10 profile is a research intensive, graduate oriented university. VT is much more like that than UVa. VT is a smaller version of a B10 school. UVa is a larger version of an Ivy League school.