re: The BIG 10 is destroying itself, geographically.

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Grab all those ACC teams
We will. National brands will always trump regional ones

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What a fricking idiot.

Let's just take a look at what one of those "national brands" brings to the B1G table.

On opening day 2021, week zero...August 28...when there literally no other games on TV because everyone else was starting the following week, the country had Hawaii-UCLA and Alcorn State-NC Central to choose from.

Guess which game had more viewers, numbnuts.

Alcorn-NC Central: 1,002,000.
Hawaii-UCLA: 976,000

That's right. On a day when no other Pac team was playing, and virtually no other team in the country, one of your new supposed "marquee" teams from a state with 39,000,000 people couldn't even draw a million viewers. They couldn't even out draw a couple of little HBCU schools.

LINK

I'm guessing that now you're gonna try to tell us that Alcorn is a bigger national brand than UCLA.