According to Wiki, Lafayette is the 108 largest MSA, Population of 474,415.

108 Lafayette, LA Metropolitan Statistical Area 474,415 466,750 +1.64%

(01-03-2014 09:40 AM)CajunFanatico Wrote:  

(01-03-2014 09:27 AM)Georgia_Power_Company Wrote:  

(01-03-2014 09:24 AM)FloridaJag Wrote:  

(01-03-2014 09:05 AM)Atlanta Trojan Wrote:  

(01-03-2014 08:14 AM)Georgia_Power_Company Wrote:  As of 2013, the Statesboro-Bulloch County Micropolitan Statistical Area joined Savannah and Hinesville to form the Savannah-Hinesville-Statesboro, GA Combined Statistical Area with a 2012 population of 516,154 (ranking 86th in the United States)

If that's the case I guess we can claim Montgomery (374,556)

Mobile MSA is 602,877 plus Pensacola (461,227) is 45 miles to the east. Gulfport-Biloxi - Pascaquola MSA (379,582) is 45 miles to the west. To the north is Washington County (17,000). If you count the adjacent counties in Mississippi then that is about 1.5 million people living within a 60 mile radius of dowtown Mobile.

It seems to me that the Sun Belt has more potential fan support than some would have us believe.

Indeed. A given school in a metropolitan area might have 1,000,000 potential viewers but often also has 5 other programs in the area competing for those same viewers.

That is why South Alabama home games should not be schedule at same time of Alabama and Auburn games.

The MSA is the MSA. You cant just annex what you would like for your own purposes. Pesacola is a separate MSA. I cant just include Athens, GA or Augusta, GA in the Atlanta MSA just because I want to.

(01-03-2014 09:40 AM)CajunFanatico Wrote:  

(01-03-2014 09:27 AM)Georgia_Power_Company Wrote:  

(01-03-2014 09:24 AM)FloridaJag Wrote:  

(01-03-2014 09:05 AM)Atlanta Trojan Wrote:  

(01-03-2014 08:14 AM)Georgia_Power_Company Wrote:  As of 2013, the Statesboro-Bulloch County Micropolitan Statistical Area joined Savannah and Hinesville to form the Savannah-Hinesville-Statesboro, GA Combined Statistical Area with a 2012 population of 516,154 (ranking 86th in the United States)

If that's the case I guess we can claim Montgomery (374,556)

Mobile MSA is 602,877 plus Pensacola (461,227) is 45 miles to the east. Gulfport-Biloxi - Pascaquola MSA (379,582) is 45 miles to the west. To the north is Washington County (17,000). If you count the adjacent counties in Mississippi then that is about 1.5 million people living within a 60 mile radius of dowtown Mobile.

It seems to me that the Sun Belt has more potential fan support than some would have us believe.

Indeed. A given school in a metropolitan area might have 1,000,000 potential viewers but often also has 5 other programs in the area competing for those same viewers.

Its all about wins. If USA goes 11-1 and knocks off a P5 school Ladd will be full and TV will be carrying their games.

(01-02-2014 11:36 PM)IdahoCajun Wrote:  Lafayette Louisiana. 122,761 (MSA) 273,738
Jonesboro Arkansas. 70,187 (MSA) 107,768
Bowling Green Kentucky 60,600 (MSA) 162,231
Mobile Alabama. 194,822 (MSA) 412,992
Arkansas Little Rock 196,537
Troy Alabama 18,264 (MSA) 29,620
Boone North Carolina. 17,774 (MSA) 51,337
Statesboro Georgia. 29,779
San Marcos Texas. 50,001
las Cruces New Mexico. 101,047
Moscow Idaho. 24,499
Arlington Texas. 375,600

MSA =Metropolitan Statistical Area

Lynchburg, VA 77,100 (MSA) 247,000


+18% change in 10 years

(01-03-2014 10:01 AM)Jerry Falwell Wrote:  

(01-02-2014 11:36 PM)IdahoCajun Wrote:  Lafayette Louisiana. 122,761 (MSA) 273,738
Jonesboro Arkansas. 70,187 (MSA) 107,768
Bowling Green Kentucky 60,600 (MSA) 162,231
Mobile Alabama. 194,822 (MSA) 412,992
Arkansas Little Rock 196,537
Troy Alabama 18,264 (MSA) 29,620
Boone North Carolina. 17,774 (MSA) 51,337
Statesboro Georgia. 29,779
San Marcos Texas. 50,001
las Cruces New Mexico. 101,047
Moscow Idaho. 24,499
Arlington Texas. 375,600

MSA =Metropolitan Statistical Area

Lynchburg, VA 77,100 (MSA) 247,000


+18% change in 10 years

(01-03-2014 09:52 AM)panama Wrote:  The MSA is the MSA. You cant just annex what you would like for your own purposes. Pesacola is a separate MSA. I cant just include Athens, GA or Augusta, GA in the Atlanta MSA just because I want to.

Pensacola is part of the Mobile DMA (TV) and is probably what led FJ to bring up surrounding communities. I agree with you wholeheartedly though.

(01-03-2014 10:53 AM)SkullyMaroo Wrote:  

(01-03-2014 09:52 AM)panama Wrote:  The MSA is the MSA. You cant just annex what you would like for your own purposes. Pesacola is a separate MSA. I cant just include Athens, GA or Augusta, GA in the Atlanta MSA just because I want to.

Pensacola is part of the Mobile DMA (TV) and is probably what led FJ to bring up surrounding communities. I agree with you wholeheartedly though.

Well we were talking MSAs so imagine my confusion

(01-03-2014 10:33 AM)panama Wrote:  

(01-03-2014 10:01 AM)Jerry Falwell Wrote:  

(01-02-2014 11:36 PM)IdahoCajun Wrote:  Lafayette Louisiana. 122,761 (MSA) 273,738
Jonesboro Arkansas. 70,187 (MSA) 107,768
Bowling Green Kentucky 60,600 (MSA) 162,231
Mobile Alabama. 194,822 (MSA) 412,992
Arkansas Little Rock 196,537
Troy Alabama 18,264 (MSA) 29,620
Boone North Carolina. 17,774 (MSA) 51,337
Statesboro Georgia. 29,779
San Marcos Texas. 50,001
las Cruces New Mexico. 101,047
Moscow Idaho. 24,499
Arlington Texas. 375,600

MSA =Metropolitan Statistical Area

Lynchburg, VA 77,100 (MSA) 247,000


+18% change in 10 years

Maybe you can't do math, but it's the 5th biggest city on the OP.

Growth 3x the rate of ATL. Yeah, that it kinda funny.

(01-03-2014 11:55 AM)Jerry Falwell Wrote:  

(01-03-2014 10:33 AM)panama Wrote:  

(01-03-2014 10:01 AM)Jerry Falwell Wrote:  

(01-02-2014 11:36 PM)IdahoCajun Wrote:  Lafayette Louisiana. 122,761 (MSA) 273,738
Jonesboro Arkansas. 70,187 (MSA) 107,768
Bowling Green Kentucky 60,600 (MSA) 162,231
Mobile Alabama. 194,822 (MSA) 412,992
Arkansas Little Rock 196,537
Troy Alabama 18,264 (MSA) 29,620
Boone North Carolina. 17,774 (MSA) 51,337
Statesboro Georgia. 29,779
San Marcos Texas. 50,001
las Cruces New Mexico. 101,047
Moscow Idaho. 24,499
Arlington Texas. 375,600

MSA =Metropolitan Statistical Area

Lynchburg, VA 77,100 (MSA) 247,000


+18% change in 10 years

Maybe you can't do math, but it's the 5th biggest city on the OP.

Growth 3x the rate of ATL. Yeah, that it kinda funny.

Lol. Well yeah... If you only have one person and add another person, you've just had a 100% growth rate.

(01-03-2014 11:55 AM)Jerry Falwell Wrote:  

(01-03-2014 10:33 AM)panama Wrote:  

(01-03-2014 10:01 AM)Jerry Falwell Wrote:  

(01-02-2014 11:36 PM)IdahoCajun Wrote:  Lafayette Louisiana. 122,761 (MSA) 273,738
Jonesboro Arkansas. 70,187 (MSA) 107,768
Bowling Green Kentucky 60,600 (MSA) 162,231
Mobile Alabama. 194,822 (MSA) 412,992
Arkansas Little Rock 196,537
Troy Alabama 18,264 (MSA) 29,620
Boone North Carolina. 17,774 (MSA) 51,337
Statesboro Georgia. 29,779
San Marcos Texas. 50,001
las Cruces New Mexico. 101,047
Moscow Idaho. 24,499
Arlington Texas. 375,600

MSA =Metropolitan Statistical Area

Lynchburg, VA 77,100 (MSA) 247,000


+18% change in 10 years

Maybe you can't do math, but it's the 5th biggest city on the OP.

Growth 3x the rate of ATL. Yeah, that it kinda funny.

Your growth rate might be higher but Atlanta metro adds more people
Per year to it's metro than your town does.

I bet Atlanta metro adds more people
EVERY year than the TOTAL population of Lynchburg

(01-03-2014 12:10 PM)Atlanta Trojan Wrote:  I bet Atlanta metro adds more people
EVERY year than the TOTAL population of Lynchburg

I think my area of Dekalb County has more population that, not even the whole county or even half the county.

(01-03-2014 11:55 AM)Jerry Falwell Wrote:  

(01-03-2014 10:33 AM)panama Wrote:  

(01-03-2014 10:01 AM)Jerry Falwell Wrote:  

(01-02-2014 11:36 PM)IdahoCajun Wrote:  Lafayette Louisiana. 122,761 (MSA) 273,738
Jonesboro Arkansas. 70,187 (MSA) 107,768
Bowling Green Kentucky 60,600 (MSA) 162,231
Mobile Alabama. 194,822 (MSA) 412,992
Arkansas Little Rock 196,537
Troy Alabama 18,264 (MSA) 29,620
Boone North Carolina. 17,774 (MSA) 51,337
Statesboro Georgia. 29,779
San Marcos Texas. 50,001
las Cruces New Mexico. 101,047
Moscow Idaho. 24,499
Arlington Texas. 375,600

MSA =Metropolitan Statistical Area

Lynchburg, VA 77,100 (MSA) 247,000


+18% change in 10 years

Maybe you can't do math, but it's the 5th biggest city on the OP.

Growth 3x the rate of ATL. Yeah, that it kinda funny.

Well funny is you thinking 1) we care 2) any FBS conference will take you or 3) an 18% from 77k or 247k in 10 years is impressive. I live in a county with 750k residents and its not even the Atlanta Metro's most populous county. As a Metro Area we have on average added 100k residents a year since 1980. I have lost track as to how many recessions that includes where that pace never has slowed. To give you an idea, Dekalb had a 22% increase in population from 1990 to 2000 or 120k people. Gwinnett County had an increase from 2000 to 2010 37% or 217k people. Henry County had an increase of 71% from 2000 to 2010 or about 85k people. Fulton County added 57k residents from April 2010 to July 2012. So if you were interrupting an SBC thread in the hopes of impressing us...

(01-03-2014 09:24 AM)FloridaJag Wrote:  

(01-03-2014 09:05 AM)Atlanta Trojan Wrote:  

(01-03-2014 08:14 AM)Georgia_Power_Company Wrote:  As of 2013, the Statesboro-Bulloch County Micropolitan Statistical Area joined Savannah and Hinesville to form the Savannah-Hinesville-Statesboro, GA Combined Statistical Area with a 2012 population of 516,154 (ranking 86th in the United States)

If that's the case I guess we can claim Montgomery (374,556)

Mobile MSA is 602,877 plus Pensacola (461,227) is 45 miles to the east. Gulfport-Biloxi - Pascaquola MSA (379,582) is 45 miles to the west. To the north is Washington County (17,000). If you count the adjacent counties in Mississippi then that is about 1.5 million people living within a 60 mile radius of dowtown Mobile.

ok, if you guys are going to talk metro areas, uta is in the middle of the DFW metro area with over 6.5 million people. It is the most populous metro area in the south..

(01-03-2014 12:52 PM)runamuck Wrote:  

(01-03-2014 09:24 AM)FloridaJag Wrote:  

(01-03-2014 09:05 AM)Atlanta Trojan Wrote:  

(01-03-2014 08:14 AM)Georgia_Power_Company Wrote:  As of 2013, the Statesboro-Bulloch County Micropolitan Statistical Area joined Savannah and Hinesville to form the Savannah-Hinesville-Statesboro, GA Combined Statistical Area with a 2012 population of 516,154 (ranking 86th in the United States)

If that's the case I guess we can claim Montgomery (374,556)

Mobile MSA is 602,877 plus Pensacola (461,227) is 45 miles to the east. Gulfport-Biloxi - Pascaquola MSA (379,582) is 45 miles to the west. To the north is Washington County (17,000). If you count the adjacent counties in Mississippi then that is about 1.5 million people living within a 60 mile radius of dowtown Mobile.

ok, if you guys are going to talk metro areas, uta is in the middle of the DFW metro area with over 6.5 million people. It is the most populous metro area in the south..

/thread

(01-03-2014 12:43 PM)panama Wrote:  

(01-03-2014 11:55 AM)Jerry Falwell Wrote:  

(01-03-2014 10:33 AM)panama Wrote:  

(01-03-2014 10:01 AM)Jerry Falwell Wrote:  

(01-02-2014 11:36 PM)IdahoCajun Wrote:  Lafayette Louisiana. 122,761 (MSA) 273,738
Jonesboro Arkansas. 70,187 (MSA) 107,768
Bowling Green Kentucky 60,600 (MSA) 162,231
Mobile Alabama. 194,822 (MSA) 412,992
Arkansas Little Rock 196,537
Troy Alabama 18,264 (MSA) 29,620
Boone North Carolina. 17,774 (MSA) 51,337
Statesboro Georgia. 29,779
San Marcos Texas. 50,001
las Cruces New Mexico. 101,047
Moscow Idaho. 24,499
Arlington Texas. 375,600

MSA =Metropolitan Statistical Area

Lynchburg, VA 77,100 (MSA) 247,000


+18% change in 10 years

Maybe you can't do math, but it's the 5th biggest city on the OP.

Growth 3x the rate of ATL. Yeah, that it kinda funny.

Well funny is you thinking 1) we care 2) any FBS conference will take you or 3) an 18% from 77k or 247k in 10 years is impressive. I live in a county with 750k residents and its not even the Atlanta Metro's most populous county. As a Metro Area we have on average added 100k residents a year since 1980. I have lost track as to how many recessions that includes where that pace never has slowed. To give you an idea, Dekalb had a 22% increase in population from 1990 to 2000 or 120k people. Gwinnett County had an increase from 2000 to 2010 37% or 217k people. Henry County had an increase of 71% from 2000 to 2010 or about 85k people. Fulton County added 57k residents from April 2010 to July 2012. So if you were interrupting an SBC thread in the hopes of impressing us...

Heck my county (Coweta) which is 35mins South of Atlanta went from 89,000 in 2000 to 130,000 in 2013. Coweta is one of the least populated counties in metro Atlanta but still more than Lynchburg haha

As Arkstfan has illustrated, these numbers don't mean a whole lot. It isn't as easy as saying the program in the largest city will succeed more than the smaller cities on the field or in the ratings. Too many factors. ASU draws well on TV because we are one of only two FBS programs in our state and there are no professional teams to compete. It isn't a one formula world in college athletics.

I don't think the size of the city has a damn thing in the world to do with how successful the program is.

If that was true CUSA would be kicking our butts

(01-03-2014 01:54 PM)Crump1 Wrote:  As Arkstfan has illustrated, these numbers don't mean a whole lot. It isn't as easy as saying the program in the largest city will succeed more than the smaller cities on the field or in the ratings. Too many factors. ASU draws well on TV because we are one of only two FBS programs in our state and there are no professional teams to compete. It isn't a one formula world in college athletics.

Wow now I really feel at a disadvantage competing in a state with 12 FBS programs...