Any port in a storm: if B1g goes with Cal, Furd, OR, and UW, that would open the west coast recruiting faucet since AZs, Utah and CO would be trying to recruit into a lesser league. Grasping, I know.philly1121 said:
Perhaps because the media market doesn't mean much when it comes to Stanford or Cal? Yeah its a big market - but it contains two teams that are not winning. There is upside, yes. But I think if they wanted both of us (as natural partners), it likely would have happened when they took USC and UCLA. They would essentially have locked up California market.
People have been touting the Bay as a big market (not the biggest, obviously), but what are the percentages when there is less interest in sports and watching them as there is in most any other market that size, excluding the north east? Just guessing.