Report: Georgia Tech in mix for B1G as well

Yes. This would be a great add. Great academics. Great tradition. Geographically weird though.

I would be able to attend a Michigan game every two years!

Head asplode at the thought of defending the option nearly every year...

But I agree about academics, football, and expanding the footprint into the southeast region.

That said, as somebody who participated in a decidedly non-revenue varsity sport in college, it is going to create a travel nightmare and I would guess a strain on some of the ADs across the B1G.

It's not so much TV ratings as TV sets the Big Ten seems to care about. If Ga Tech gets the Big Ten Network on basic cable in Atlanta, that's a lot of money (as is DC for Maryland or NYC for Rutgers ... though I'm sceptical that the Rutgers fanbase is going to be able to force Jim Dolan's hand),

I'm not getting this vibe at all. Because Maryland and Rutgers are being referred to as a package deal and Rutgers is a steaming shitpile, they get lumped in together.

Maryland is a great school. The problems are that they're decent at basketball, but suck balls at the other major sports and don't do anything for the market. The east coast, especially DC and New York, are already full of Big Ten and SEC alumni and even those who aren't don't give a shit about Maryland or Rutgers sports.

If this is about academics, then Maryland and GT are fine grabs. But then why don't we get Boston College too? GREAT academics, and big market (Namely: Boston).
Now, I don't believe that's a good idea, and probably none of you do either. And any argument you can make agaionst Boston College, you can pretty much make against Maryland, and even Georgia Tech.
 

They are the face of ACC basketball.  I don't see them going anywhere.  Virginia and VT would be good fits, although my preference would be VT because they actually have a decent football program these days.

I'm opposed to expansion... But if it happens I'd be okay with the UVA move. It won't happen, but I'd love to get some B1G football here. I'm not sure what the boys in bow ties and the girls in sun dresses would think of visiting B1G fans.

We already only play Wisconsin and Penn St. 2 out of every 5 years. Why should we give up more of these games for Maryland, GT, and Rutgers?

Essentially, this ends the B1G as a conference: it's two conferences with a common championship game.

If you institute a pod system that is constantly rotating you can play everyone multiple times in 4 years. Sure you aren't going to develop long term hate, but everyone will see one another.

Chicago. The Maroons return to the B1G and rekindle the rivalry with Michigan. I can hear it now-

"You are looking LIVE from Stagg Field in Chicago, IL. Capacity crowd of 1,650."

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It means something in that increasingly the goal maybe to cover as much geography as possible.

To a degree, but Atlanta is at least as much a UGA town as a Georgia Tech town, even though Tech is in Atlanta.

It does not. The Falcons and UGA Bulldogs own that market, as much as any team does.

I'm not sure what "market" really means.  I think that a lot of people focus on the how rabid the fans are in the area.  However, in BTN terms, they're probably thinking about how many TV sets in are in the geographic area.  This might allow BTN to become part of the "standard" package in the Atlanta area (and possibly all of Georgia).  That's probably 5-8M new subscribers who are paying $0.50 - $1.00 in fees to BTN each month (depending on how it gets bundled.  That's a lot of potential revenue for BTN.

My point is that it's not so important that the team is widely regarded in the area, it's about how many TV sets that will be picking up BTN.  That's the entire driving force behind Rutgers.