(02-08-2017 05:53 PM)MplsBison Wrote:  I guess he's talking about value to a TV network.

I will definitely say that Okla State has more money than I thought. $900M+ endowment. Wonder how much of that is directly because TBP has poured millions of dollars of his own wealth into the school?


Academics, not sure, but research wise, Oklahoma St (and U of Oklahoma, for that matter) is fairly well behind both Oregon St and Washington St.

TV ratings OSU will blow those schools away. OkSU gives you big time FB games and WSU and OrSU simply don't.

TV ratings.

Week 1
None
Week 2
0.3 519K CMU
Oklahoma St. MAC
Big 12 11:59 AM FS1
Week 3
0.6 1.000M Pittsburgh
Oklahoma State ACC
Big 12 3:29 PM ESPN
Week 4
Hey they made it on TV, Because of Boise ST, LOL.
0.2 372K Boise St.
Oregon St. MWC

Pac-12 3:29 PM FS1
1.1 1.747M Oklahoma St.
Baylor Big 12 7:36 PM* FOX
Week 5
2.4 3.799M Texas
Oklahoma St. Big 12 12:01 PM ABC
Week 6
1.05 1.754M Wash. St.
Stanford Pac-12 10:46 PM ESPN
659K Iowa St.
Oklahoma St. Big 12 3:39 PM ESPNU
Week 7
0.9 1.311M UCLA
Wash. St. Pac-12 10:54 PM ESPN
Week 8
0.3 454K Oklahoma St.
Kansas Big 12 12:04 PM FS1
Week 9
0.5 815K Wash. St.
Oregon St. Pac-12 10:58 PM ESPN2
1.3 1.963M West Virginia
Oklahoma St. Big 12 12:06 PM FOX
Week 10
1.7 2.595M SYR/CLEM or
OKST/KST ACC
Big12 3:30 PM ABC
0.4 592K Oregon St.
Stanford Pac-12 4:20 PM FS1
Week 11
0.7 1.005M Cal
Wash. St. Pac-12 10:32 PM ESPN
0.6 901K Texas Tech
Okla. St. Big 12 3:52 PM FS1
Week 12
2.3 3.825M Oklahoma St.
W. Virginia Big 12 8:07 PM ABC
1.3 2.114M Wash. St.
Colorado Pac-12 3:36 PM FOX
Week 13
1.7 2.818M Washington
Wash. St. Pac-12 3:36 PM FOX
Week 14
3.1 4.817M Oklahoma
Oklahoma St. Big 12 12:36 PM FOX


It's really amazing how few times OrSU and WSU are even on national TV. Any way you slice it (total appearances or average audience, combined audience) OkSU is worth more than OrSU and WSU. The ratings are quite clear. There is a reason Fox and ESPN don't put those schools on national TV very often.