ECU is in the Raleigh-Durham market about as much as Baylor is in the Dallas-Ft. Worth market. Both have fan bases but the TV market isn't the same.

(05-25-2011 05:45 PM)saxamoophone Wrote:  Nevermind I googled.=)

83.9 miles from their campus to downtown Raleigh.

UCFs only 85.7 to downtown Tampa... Can we count their market too???? kidding kidding

First of all it was not TH who was using that Raleigh/Durham market number it was the author of the article so you will have to take that comment up with him. Secondly like we posted before the
Raleigh/Durahm TV market line runs only about 10 to 15 miles to the west of Greenville. The two markets really overlap in Greenville. All of the the Raleigh network stations broadcast Greenville. It is kinda of weird, you get 2 CBS,ABC,ect affiliates broadcasting in Greenville. The ones in the Washington/Greenville/New Bern market and the Raleigh affiliates. That is why all of the Raleigh affiliates cover ECU sports, because a sizable portion of their market is actually closer Greenville than it is Raleigh.

(05-25-2011 05:51 PM)omnicarrier Wrote:  Navy and ECU for football only, BYU or Houston as all-sports.

10/18 with 2 federated football only members to get to 12.

Cheers,
Neil

IMO....have to give ECU full membership. Its a lot to ask a athletic department to take the rest of the spots to the Atlantic Sun or whatever on a permant basis

Of course...I'm biased on that issue :)

Jackson

Gotcha.

That makes sense.

i found the viewership from the bowl game interesting. 2.4 million of nc's 9 million watched the game. pretty solid draw statewide compared to what most non ecu supporters say.

(05-25-2011 05:58 PM)Jackson1011 Wrote:  

(05-25-2011 05:51 PM)omnicarrier Wrote:  Navy and ECU for football only, BYU or Houston as all-sports.

10/18 with 2 federated football only members to get to 12.

Cheers,
Neil

IMO....have to give ECU full membership. Its a lot to ask a athletic department to take the rest of the spots to the Atlantic Sun or whatever on a permant basis

Of course...I'm biased on that issue :)

Jackson

Don't necessarily disagree, but CAA or A10 wouldn't be too bad. The most important thing is to get them in for football anyway we can, imho. Worry about all-sports down the road after the split.

I'm just excited that they are even mentioning the Pirates again. Hope it isn't false hope and they really are given serious consideration.

Cheers,
Neil

Terry Holland is quietly getting it done in Greenville. I would love to see The Big East invite ECU. Too many positives not to.
CJ

Actually, most ECU fans that I know wouldn't mind playing our other sports in the CAA (Colonial) if we were invited football-only to the Big East. Of course, full membership is what we would all hope for and work towards, but we would be able to bus to most, if not all, conference opponents in the CAA, drastically cutting our travel costs from CUSA.

Just for the heck of it, here is the market maps. The green shade is the Raleigh-Durham-Fayetteville market. Greenville is located in Pitt County.

Army & Navy is still the same futile attempt to keep hybrid together.
They have been telling BE no for 8 [if not longer] yrs now. save the stamps.

I been on the BYU for FB only now for 5 yrs, bringing them in a splitt BE,
with TCU & BYU. Could there be 6 programs out there to fill out west div.
with thier FB program now being eastern based, I would think they would want BB program
out west to keep a presence out there

From Greenville came a dark horse riding up.