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RE: How do you accurately determine a college team's market??
(07-29-2017 12:17 AM)DawgNBama Wrote: I was looking at this post I copied from the AAC board
(07-19-2017 07:31 AM)Moody Magic Wrote: The WSU thread about being great for the board got me thinking about what they add numbers wise. I'm sure this has been discussed before but I quickly ranked the metro areas by population for each AAC school. I'm not saying each school delivers their market but it is their base. Interesting to note the two schools with loudest/most annoying/vocal fans come from the two smallest markets.....
AAC rank - metro area (metro pop, US metro rank)
1. SMU - DFW (7,200,000 4th)
2. UH - Houston (6,800,000 5th)
3. Temple - Philly (6,100,000 7th)
4. USF - Tampa (3,000,000 18th)
5. Navy - Baltimore/Annapolis (2,700,000 21st)
6. UCF - Orlando (2,500,000 23rd)
7. Cincy - Cincinnati (2,200,000 28th)
8. Memphis - Memphis (1,300,000 42nd)
9. Tulane - New Orleans (1,300,000 46th)
10. UConn - Hartford (1,200,000 47th)
11. Tulsa - Tulsa (1,000,000 55th)
12. WSU - Wichita (600,000 87th)
13. ECU - Greenville, NC (200,000 236th)
Also, I included Annapolis in the Baltimore metro.
, and it got me thinking, "how does one accurately determine a college team's market?" With some teams, it's kinda obvious like UCLA's market is LA and Miami, Fl's market is Miami, etc. But how do you determine USC's market? It stands for the University of Southern California, so just how many markets can it claim? And Auburn has fans both in the states of Alabama and Georgia. What markets can they claim? See what I mean? So, how does one determine the market for each team??
Markets have little to do with broadcast ratings. That is a reflection of history of success and quality of the program.
Markets are a factor in developing attendance and fan support on a regional level, which over time can impact broadcast ratings. SMU has been discussed already. The Mustangs had a long history of success in the old SWC, but not since, and they also carry the distinction of having received the death penalty. TCU, also in the Dallas market, has managed to elevate their program back into a P5 conference. Both are small private schools, with a limited ability to attract sizable fan support and have struggled to draw large crowds (realistically: SMU draws far fewer fans then they report, TCU draws a large numbers of visitors when they play one of the Texas Big12 teams). North Texas the 3rd FBS program in the Dallas area, is the only public university in the bunch, and has more students then SMU and TCU combined, but lacks the deep pockets and SWC pedigree of SMU and TCU. Truth is Texas and Texas A&M rate higher in Dallas than all of us, and they are not located in our market. So there you go.
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