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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!!! : )

I don't take offense! We know our history. We beat Princeton in the first college football game ever,then we got about seven more wins over the next 140 years. It takes some time to turn that around. But things are picking up. Lots of little signs of upward momentum. Five straight bowl wins (little bowls, I know, but we won them.) We had two first-round NFL picks go out this year. That's a great sign.

The Big Ten network has no hope of getting on basic cable in the NYC market without a local team. Even if they can't sell it in NYC at first, just getting on basic cable in New Jersey is big money. There are almost 9 million people in New Jersey.

Maybe NYC will never "get" college football, like it never really got NASCAR, meth or Garth Brooks. But if it does, there are many many millions of dollars to be had. That's what lies in the calculations.