(03-24-2015 03:25 PM)armour248 Wrote: NIU has the Chicago market which separates them from pretty much everyone else. The B12 wouldn't care if our attendance was 15k or 50k if the local Chicago TV stations were airing B12 games because of us.
Not being difficult, but how do you claim "NIU has the Chicago market?"
People on here often complain that we get ignored by the Chicago media -- behind Notre Dame, Illinois and Northwestern per those folks who do not argue that Chicago doesn't even care about college athletics.
So what is the basis for claiming NIU has the Chicago market in order to be able to deliver it for the Big 12.
There is no Big 12 Network producing games, the Big 12 "Network" consists of regionally-syndicated games that are part of the conference's agreements with ESPN Regional Television and FoxSports.
This is a league with four teams in Texas, two in Oklahoma, two in Kansas, one in West Virginia and one in Iowa -- where are the numbers to prove the Chicago area cares or would care about Big 12 games?
I understand why we want in the Big 12 / I understand why it would be great for us / I wish we could get in the Big 12
but I don't understand what the foundation of your arguement is? The only Big 12 games that air in the eastern half of Iowa (i.e. the Quad Cities and Illinois border) are strictly those involving the Cyclones.