Syracuse or Pitt?

I was curious, who should the 12^th Big 10 team be? Assuming Notre Dame continue its death spiral into Independent oblivion with NBC, the Big 10 will need to add another team to get a conference game and to expand its tv market. I thought Avg. attendance is a good proxy for program strength. Below are the attendance stats for the 2009 season. If we look at 2 likely candidates, Syracuse and Pitt, they would be middling to low Big 10 teams (9^th out of 12^th in attendance). Not bad, but not great either. WVU would make more sense except for the lack of tv market and the biannual riot that would occur when UM and RR came to town (ughh, I shiver thinking about it)


2009 NCAA Attendance Statistics

Rank	Team	Avg Attendance
1	Michigan	109649
2	Penn St.	105678
3	Ohio St.	105563
4	Texas	101096
5	Tennessee	100500
6	Georgia	92746
7	Alabama	92012
8	LSU	91566
9	Florida	90485
10	Nebraska	85377
11	Oklahoma	84749
12	Southern California	84325
13	Auburn	83206
14	Notre Dame	80795
15	Wisconsin	80443
16	Florida St.	76249
17	Michigan St.	75370
18	Clemson	75000
19	Texas A&M	73887
20	Iowa	70585
21	Virginia Tech	66233
22	Missouri	65401
23	Washington	64071
24	Illinois	62347
25	California	60225
26	West Virginia	58583
27	North Carolina	58500
28	Oregon	57772
29	North Carolina St.	56547
30	UCLA	55761
31	Arkansas	55572
32	Mississippi St.	54232
33	Colorado	53168
34	Kansas	52530
35	Oklahoma St.	51944
36	Virginia	51462
37	Arizona	51153
38	Minnesota	50805
39	Kansas St.	50750
40	Iowa St.	50460
41	Georgia Tech	49080
42	Rutgers	48730
43	Syracuse	48617
44	Pittsburgh	48497
45	Texas Tech	47974
46	Purdue	47551
47	Maryland	46485
48	Utah	45333
49	Memphis	45207
50	East Carolina	43279
51	Arizona St.	42588
52	Air Force	42205
53	San Diego St.	42137
54	Oregon St.	41679
55	South Fla.	40360
56	Louisville	39344
57	Connecticut	38087
58	Fresno St.	37267
59	Vanderbilt	36350
60	Indiana	71921
61	Hawaii	35751
62	SMU	34749
63	UCF	34486
64	UTEP	67098
65	Duke	33311
66	Boise St.	66355
67	Southern Miss.	63688
68	Cincinnati	30421
69	New Mexico	30051
70	Boston College	58427
71	Navy	29102
72	Wake Forest	57907
73	La.-Lafayette	57788
74	Middle Tenn.	28105
75	Akron	27881
76	Temple	27759
77	Tulane	53862
78	Army	25698
79	Ohio	24617
80	Wyoming	49033
81	UNLV	48162
82	Marshall	24012
83	San Jose St.	23684
84	Colorado St.	23417
85	Washington St.	22386
86	Houston	22043
87	Buffalo	21870
88	Northern Ill.	21427
89	Arkansas St.	21056
90	Western Ky.	20568
91	Toledo	20082
92	Northwestern	37096