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To: Old Teufel Hunden
You're still missing the point.

The deal with Rutgers is not about delivering ratings to the Big Ten. It's about delivering cable subscriber fees. The numbers are huge if they can get on the provider's basic packages and Rutgers helps them do that.

Bigger ratings will mean more advertising revenue for the providers and they'd be very welcome, but it's the subscriber fees that are the draw.

Besides, the Big Ten network will obviously feature far more than Rutgers. There are plenty of Ohio State, Penn State, etc fans in the NYC market to drive ratings.

Rutgers was in the college football wasteland for a long long time. I know, I've been watching them for 30 years, with season tickets for twenty. But they have been on a slow but steady climb up since about 1995. The difference in interest throughout NJ and even NYC is huge in that time, though still way behind where it could be. Billboards, coverage on the NYC sports networks and sports talk shows, merchandising etc. have all become significant, where it used to be zero.

NYC hasn't had a college football presence since Columbia beat Army in 1947! But that could be a couple BCS bowl games away.

126 posted on 06/11/2010 1:40:06 PM PDT by dead (I've got my eye out for Mullah Omar.)
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To: dead
"You're still missing the point."

No, I totally get the point that people have been trying to make. The point of adding Rutgers is that it will open up the New York City market to the Big 10 network and they can charge more per subscriber. I think you're missing my point. My point is that I don't believe that is going to happen. My point is that no one in New York city really cares about Rutgers so why exactly would the cable companys in New York city suddenly be clamoring to get the Big 10 network on?

"Besides, the Big Ten network will obviously feature far more than Rutgers. There are plenty of Ohio State, Penn State, etc fans in the NYC market to drive ratings."

If this were the case, then it would already be happening. They don't need Rutgers for this. If there were so many Ohio State and Penn State fans in the New York city market, these people would already be clamoring for the Big 10 network to be on their cable packages.

One last thing, if Rutgers joins the Big 10, I don't think they will ever get to another BCS bowl game. They can do it in the Big East, but not the Big 10. Too much of an upgrade in football IMO.
129 posted on 06/11/2010 1:50:52 PM PDT by Old Teufel Hunden
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To: dead

One last thing dead, I don’t mean to offend you being a fan of Rutgers and all. I’m just trying to state the truth as I see it. Look, I’m a fan of the Pittsburgh Pirates. Talk about long suffering and not drawing fans!! Go ahead, make the jokes about them. I can take it!!! : )


131 posted on 06/11/2010 1:55:05 PM PDT by Old Teufel Hunden
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