I guess you could be right, to some degree Pro Cities don't care much about college. That is why college football is big in places like Alabama ...
Philadelphia doesn't care so much about College Football and Rutgers is probably as close to Philly as NYC.
But wait just a minute. We thought Delaney took them for the market? Doesn't the data support it? Or did he just bring Rutgers in so UM, OSU, PSU wouldn't have to go out of conference to get an easy win? Keep the $ in conference? $ had something to do with the B10 taking Rutgers, it wasn't to strengthen the conference like you might argue for Nebraska.
But wait just a minute. We thought Delaney took them for the market? Doesn't the data support it? Or did he just bring Rutgers in so UM, OSU, PSU wouldn't have to go out of conference to get an easy win? Keep the $ in conference? $ had something to do with the B10 taking Rutgers, it wasn't to strengthen the conference like you might argue for Nebraska.
I said NYC doesn't care about Rutgers, but it does have a lot of Big Ten graduates in it.
Anyway, the reason Delaney cared about Rutgers wasn't really because Rutgers and Maryland were big followings, but because their areas represented a lot of TV sets. That meant because there was a Big Ten University in the area, the TV contracts automatically gave BTN to all those households. That expanded the audience and TV numbers for negotiations.
