(02-15-2017 10:24 PM)billybobby777 Wrote:  

(02-15-2017 09:08 PM)p23570 Wrote:  

(02-15-2017 07:49 PM)Dr. Isaly von Yinzer Wrote:  No, I agree with that. I never thought that was a serious threat because I understand how demographics work and I understood that there were A LOT more people living on the East Coast than in the Great Plains.

People used to try to diminish that point by saying that the people who live in the Great Plains are more passionate about college athletics but that's almost completely irrelevant to advertisers < networks < conferences.

I also knew that all of the revenue projections coming out of the Big 12 blogosphere were complete bullshitt.

Honestly, it was incredible that so many other people could not see through that obvious horseshitt.

It was a little bit scary how insanely gullible people showed themselves to be during that entire bizarre episode. Just further proof that people will always be more inclined to believe what they want to believe.

The tip off should have been that the University of Pittsburgh was invited to join both conferences just a year prior and chose the ACC.

You don't think Pitt crunched those numbers and talked to television consultants and executives?

You don't think they did a comprehensive study before making such an important decision?

Too many people ignored that very obvious fact.

My worry was that the Big Ten was going to take Florida State and Georgia Tech. That would've hurt the ACC in a very real way and for a while there I thought that was going to happen.

Needless to say, I am glad it worked out as it did.


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Epic fail DR. Epic fail.


LOL. I"m guessing you like pretending to be a Dr on the internet.

Dr, here is a reason there are 6 power 5 schools in Iowa, Kansas, and Oklahoma combined and 6 in NY, MA, Rhode Island, Vermont, Connecticut, Delaware, Maine, New Jersey, , Pennsylvania, and Maryland combined. LOL

I'm nost sure DR but I think that means your comment about demographics is well, BS. IF those huge states with all thier wealth, population, "demographics" and tens of million of people can't even beat 3 plains states with 10 million in population combined what does that say about the passion of thier fans DR?

Iowa 3m
Kansas 3M
Oklahoma 4m
Combined 10 M people

Pennsylvania 13 m
NY 20 M
Rhode Island 1m
Vermont .5 m
Massachusetts 7m
Connecticut 3.5 m
New Jersey 9M
Delaware 1m
New Hampshire 1m
MAryland 6 m
MAine 1.
Total of 63 Million people

Anybody with a firing brain cell can see the difference in fan passion for schools in the plains versus the Northeast, heck PSU is the only real fan base in the entire region. Fan support in the Northeast is terrible. Go look at Cuse and BC attendance. For all the millions of people in the area none care. None go to games and none watch games. Those schools are rarely on national TV and when they are it's due to the opponent. Rutgers and Maryland are the same way. terrible fan support for the number of people in the area. Garbage fanbases and broke AD's, that is what you ahve in the northeast. All reacquire huge subsidy to operate becasue hey lack ticket sales, concessions, and donations to compete on thier own.

Dr, What fanbase in the Northeast would you say is better than Iowa, ISU, KU, KSU, OU, or OSU?

No charge for the lesson DR. Would you like to move into budgets and TV ratings next?

I agree with you on this. Sorry Dr, but what good are the New York demographics to Buffalo? I'd rather be the Cornhuskers in Nebraska with its 2 million than Syracuse or Buffalo in New York with its 20 million. If 100k show up to a football game in Lincoln your "demographics" logic would dictate that 10 times that would come to a game featuring a New York team right?
There's a lot of people in NYC; just not too many that are interested in watching the local college football game. I like it when East Coast NFL/NBA first fans educate us on college sports.
Cheers!

Yeah, I know us Yankees are the worst. By the way, the Yankees are a baseball team that play in New York - and just about everyone hates them.

Nebraska left the Big 12 for the Big Ten for a reason and it wasn't because they didn't like Texas' attitude. I mean seriously, do you think that Michigan and Ohio State are any less arrogant?

It's about demographics and that's why half the Big 12 left a few years ago and that's why that league is dying. It is terribly dysfunctional and outside of Texas, it has poor demographics.

We all know how this movie is going to end – it's just a matter of time. Are people really still in denial about this?

It's over – as soon as this GOR runs out, the schools that have options are gone and the rest will merge with either the AAC schools or the Mountain West schools or (most likely) they will take the best from both of those leagues and form what they can. I didn't even think we were debating the point anymore.

Hell, I think that's why Baylor allowed it's football program to run amok. They saw how close they came last time to being UConn'd and they wanted to raise their football program's profile in an effort to avoid that fate the next time that conference implodes. So, if a few good little Baptist girls have to get raped along the way, hey, that's the cost of doing business if you want to play big boy football, baby!

I truly believe it was that craven. In fact, from some of the leaked documents, we now know it was that cold. That's why some of the boosters, despite having access to a lot of this information, were still trying to figure out how to retain Art Briles. That man, and that ball of human filth Ken Starr, should both be rotting away in a goddamm prison for what they allowed to happen to all of those poor young ladies.