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Post by timholycross on Mar 5, 2019 8:48:13 GMT -5
Boston is the 9th ranked DMA (TV market) in the country. Hartford/New Haven is 30th. That's what matters most to large conferences, and reason #1 that the B1G took in total stiff Rutgers: to expose it's member schools to the largest DMA in the country. Didn’t realize the Piscataway/New Brunswick DMA had grown that much. When you look up DMA for Rutgers, guess what ranking comes up? #1, New York. Holy Cross' comes up with Boston's, which should have given Holy Cross an edge at some point, but never seems to have.
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Post by HC92 on Mar 5, 2019 9:39:04 GMT -5
Didn’t realize the Piscataway/New Brunswick DMA had grown that much. When you look up DMA for Rutgers, guess what ranking comes up? #1, New York. Holy Cross' comes up with Boston's, which should have given Holy Cross an edge at some point, but never seems to have. I know that’s what comes up. I also know that there is very little interest in that DMA in Rutgers or its athletic program. The B1G may as well have added Fordham or Iona.
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Post by Tom on Mar 5, 2019 9:40:51 GMT -5
I can't figure out how UCONN could box itself into a corner and have no chair when the music stopped. I thought UConn should have been head and shoulders more attractive than BC to the ACC. BC hasn't come close to a national championship and UConn has a ton of M+W trophies. BC is an afterthought to the pros in the Boston Market and UCONN is the 600 pound guerilla in it's market. BC had the edge in football but UConn had the facility to grow into power conference football if they were in a power conference. Unfortunate because Calhoun and Geno built their programs from regional teams to national powers and now they are in a second tier league while some schools with second tier programs are in first tier conferences. Boston is the 9th ranked DMA (TV market) in the country. Hartford/New Haven is 30th. That's what matters most to large conferences, and reason #1 that the B1G took in total stiff Rutgers: to expose it's member schools to the largest DMA in the country. I didn't realize Boston has slipped that low. I thought it was #6 around the turn of the century (after NYC, Chi, LA, Phi, and Houston) Although population is dropping relative to the rest of the country (or so says the census and it's distribution of Congressional districts)
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Post by Tom on Mar 5, 2019 9:41:32 GMT -5
When you look up DMA for Rutgers, guess what ranking comes up? #1, New York. Holy Cross' comes up with Boston's, which should have given Holy Cross an edge at some point, but never seems to have. I know that’s what comes up. I also know that there is very little interest in that DMA in Rutgers or its athletic program. The B1G may as well have added Fordham or Iona. I-A football
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Post by DFW HOYA on Mar 6, 2019 16:46:58 GMT -5
Boston is the 9th ranked DMA (TV market) in the country. Hartford/New Haven is 30th. That's what matters most to large conferences, and reason #1 that the B1G took in total stiff Rutgers: to expose it's member schools to the largest DMA in the country. I didn't realize Boston has slipped that low. I thought it was #6 around the turn of the century (after NYC, Chi, LA, Phi, and Houston) Although population is dropping relative to the rest of the country (or so says the census and it's distribution of Congressional districts) 1. New York 2. Los Angeles 3. Chicago 4. Philadelphia 5. Dallas 6. Washington, D.C. 7. Houston 8. San Francisco 9. Boston 10. Atlanta
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Post by longsuffering on Mar 7, 2019 16:44:42 GMT -5
It's like growing up in the sixties in New England 67, and listening to the ninth inning of the second game of a Sunday doubleheader against the Yankees with the Red Sox clinging to a one run lead to salvage a split and even "the Monster" Dick Radatz gives up a two run pinch hit home run to Johnny Blanchard.
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