re: RE: 14th team - breakdown of options (germans)

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The DC area is more than NOVA even so sports stores are dominated with Redskins and Caps gear

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Well yeah...they are professional teams...

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it has nothing to do about how i dislike them, no college team has a grip on the DC area esp one 4 hours away that no one cared about before MV7

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But Tech has more of a presence than any other college...

And NOVA runs the DC Market. Two of the richest counties in America, maybe the richest if I remember correctly.

Loudon and Fairfax , but i think Montgomery county maryland is richer then both

If Maryland is good tech becomes an after thought just for the mere fact the campus is 15 miles from dc

People in DC watch SEC football regardless and if they get a tv deal like the B1G you don't need VT in the area to have that offered. When i still lived in the area the B1G network came part of my sports package

Straightcashhomey definitely has bitter feelings towards tech. Possibly even more than I do which is saying a lot.

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Possibly even more than I do which is saying a lot

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The rivalry was intense bro, they hate us and we hate them even though we haven't played since 2005.

Both fan bases still talk shite on each other

when it comes to their football team ill talk lots of shite on them but in regards to expansion ive been pretty fair in my assessment of them and any myths about what they do and don't offer

I've been in Arlington for the past few years as well. If I had to rank the college presences of DC/NOVA, it would be:

1) VT
2) WVU
3) UMD
4) UVA
5) PSU

But out of the 5 teams, WVU has the least amount of excitement because we play in a bullshite conference. If we were in the SEC and in the national spotlight much more, we could easily pass VT. The thing about the DC area is that most people here are the BIGGEST bandwagon fans in the country. All they care about is whatever the media force feeds them. If there was a local team in the SEC going up against an LSU, Bama, UF each week, I would bet the house the DC fans would get behind that.

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Possible but unlikely, somewhat desirable

5-Univ. of North Carolina (good academics expands geographic reach, good basketball programme, mediocre football programme)

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Try very desirable and absolutely unrealistic. I doubt there is a single decision maker in the SEC that wouldn't love to add UNC as a 14th, but I am pretty sure UNC would rather dissolve as an institution than be in a conference that they (not me) see as utterly beneath them.

I grew up in the area the notion of calling redskins fans bandwagon is laughable

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The thing about the DC area is that most people here are the BIGGEST bandwagon fans in the country

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In college football maybe, but that's just because most people here don't care much about college football, so they only pay attention when one of the local teams is doing well. Maryland, Virginia Tech, West Virginia, Virginia and Navy are the only "local" teams in college football.

When it comes to the Redskins, though, they are certainly not bandwagon fans. The Nats have pretty loyal fans, too, considering what a short time they've been here and how bad they always are. I see a lot of Caps jerseys around, and Chinatown is always a sea of red when they play, but I don't follow hockey much and have never been to one of their games, so I can't really judge how loyal their fans are. The Wizards don't seem to generate that much attention.

I think Missouri is ruled out, Apparently too much love for the Big 12 and like it or not I believe it will be West Virginia. I think Slive is just putting up a smoke screen saying he is happy with 13 teams. It will be WVU when all the smoke and dust settles.