(07-19-2017 03:19 PM)Fake Gregg Marshall Wrote:  The only state that loves its college hoops more than Kansas is Indiana. In the state:

TIER 1:
KU/WSU basketball (nationally, KU gets an obvious edge, but recently the state has become a hair more yellow than blue)

TIER 2:
Kansas City Chiefs
Kansas State football
Kansas City Royals

TIER 3:
Wichita State baseball
Kansas State basketball

TIER 4:
Wichita Wingnuts baseball
Wichita Thunder hockey
Wichita Wild indoor football

TIER 5:
My nephew's 3rd grade Biddy Basketball team

TIER 6:
KU football

I don't think you have KU Football low enough on the list. I would also add Sporting KC to tier 3

(07-19-2017 03:19 PM)Fake Gregg Marshall Wrote:  The only state that loves its college hoops more than Kansas is Indiana. In the state:

TIER 1:
KU/WSU basketball (nationally, KU gets an obvious edge, but recently the state has become a hair more yellow than blue)

TIER 2:
Kansas City Chiefs
Kansas State football
Kansas City Royals

TIER 3:
Wichita State baseball
Kansas State basketball

TIER 4:
Wichita Wingnuts baseball
Wichita Thunder hockey
Wichita Wild indoor football

TIER 5:
My nephew's 3rd grade Biddy Basketball team

TIER 6:
American Dodgeball Association of America

TIER 7:
Women's National Tiddlywinks Tournament

TIER 8:
Saudi Arabian Camel Wrestling

...

TIER 97:
KU "football"

FIFY

I feel like Camel Wrestling should at least be Tier 4. I'd pay good money to see it.

(07-19-2017 03:14 PM)JHG722 Wrote:  No comment.

(07-20-2017 09:19 AM)Dport29 Wrote:  I would also add Sporting KC to tier 3

lol you're joking right?

(07-20-2017 10:42 AM)ShockerFever Wrote:  

(07-20-2017 09:19 AM)Dport29 Wrote:  I would also add Sporting KC to tier 3

lol you're joking right?

Depends on if you define the market as Wichita or Kansas area (including KC)

(07-20-2017 12:24 PM)Stickboy46 Wrote:  

(07-20-2017 10:42 AM)ShockerFever Wrote:  

(07-20-2017 09:19 AM)Dport29 Wrote:  I would also add Sporting KC to tier 3

lol you're joking right?

Depends on if you define the market as Wichita or Kansas area (including KC)

I define it as what's piped into the actual Wichita media coverage. MLS soccer is a non-factor and gets dangerously close to KU football relevancy, as it should.

(07-20-2017 12:45 PM)ShockerFever Wrote:  

(07-20-2017 12:24 PM)Stickboy46 Wrote:  

(07-20-2017 10:42 AM)ShockerFever Wrote:  

(07-20-2017 09:19 AM)Dport29 Wrote:  I would also add Sporting KC to tier 3

lol you're joking right?

Depends on if you define the market as Wichita or Kansas area (including KC)

I define it as what's piped into the actual Wichita media coverage. MLS soccer is a non-factor and gets dangerously close to KU football relevancy, as it should.

Then correct, but if you include NE Kansas .. they get a lot of Sporting KC coverage.

(07-20-2017 12:46 PM)Stickboy46 Wrote:  

(07-20-2017 12:45 PM)ShockerFever Wrote:  

(07-20-2017 12:24 PM)Stickboy46 Wrote:  

(07-20-2017 10:42 AM)ShockerFever Wrote:  

(07-20-2017 09:19 AM)Dport29 Wrote:  I would also add Sporting KC to tier 3

lol you're joking right?

Depends on if you define the market as Wichita or Kansas area (including KC)

I define it as what's piped into the actual Wichita media coverage. MLS soccer is a non-factor and gets dangerously close to KU football relevancy, as it should.

Then correct, but if you include NE Kansas .. they get a lot of Sporting KC coverage.

But Wichita isn't in NE Kansas. Outside of the NFL and MLB, no other professional franchise is covered. Again, as it shouldn't.

(07-20-2017 09:19 AM)Dport29 Wrote:  

(07-19-2017 03:19 PM)Fake Gregg Marshall Wrote:  The only state that loves its college hoops more than Kansas is Indiana. In the state:

TIER 1:
KU/WSU basketball (nationally, KU gets an obvious edge, but recently the state has become a hair more yellow than blue)

TIER 2:
Kansas City Chiefs
Kansas State football
Kansas City Royals

TIER 3:
Wichita State baseball
Kansas State basketball

TIER 4:
Wichita Wingnuts baseball
Wichita Thunder hockey
Wichita Wild indoor football

TIER 5:
My nephew's 3rd grade Biddy Basketball team

TIER 6:
KU football

I don't think you have KU Football low enough on the list. I would also add Sporting KC to tier 3

You must live in KC. No one anywhere else knows what Sporting KC is. I thought this was supposed to be local. KU football west of Lawrence isn't even an after thought. In Wichita, WSU basketball is Tier 1, and everything is below.

For Greenville, specifically...

1) ECU football is king. No if's and's or but's about it.

2) ECU baseball is very popular, as well.

3) As for college basketball, I would wager (sadly) that there are just as many UNC, Duke, or NC State basketball fans as there are ECU fans... if not more. I'm not talking about ECU students or alumni necessarily.. but Greenville is more than just ECU folks.

Until ECU makes a major investment/effort in its basketball program, it will never even be the most popular program in its own city.

(07-19-2017 10:34 AM)HuskyU Wrote:  Tier 1:
UCONN

Tier 2:
Red Sox / Yankees
Pats / Giants
Celtics

Tier 3:
Connecticut Sun
Hartford Wolfpack (minor league hockey)
Hartford Yard Goats (minor league baseball)

UCONN football is probably tier 5 behind local high school and Hoops tier 1 along with NYG and Pats

(07-20-2017 01:37 PM)chiller99 Wrote:  

(07-19-2017 10:34 AM)HuskyU Wrote:  Tier 1:
UCONN

Tier 2:
Red Sox / Yankees
Pats / Giants
Celtics

Tier 3:
Connecticut Sun
Hartford Wolfpack (minor league hockey)
Hartford Yard Goats (minor league baseball)

UCONN football is probably tier 5 behind local high school and Hoops tier 1 along with NYG and Pats

You obviously have no idea about the CT sports market. No one cares about any high school sport here.

If you want an unbiased answer to this for each of our schools, just go to the local sports radio station or newspaper sports page for the city they are in.


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(07-20-2017 01:31 PM)ECUGrad07 Wrote:  For Greenville, specifically...

1) ECU football is king. No if's and's or but's about it.

2) ECU baseball is very popular, as well.

3) As for college basketball, I would wager (sadly) that there are just as many UNC, Duke, or NC State basketball fans as there are ECU fans... if not more. I'm not talking about ECU students or alumni necessarily.. but Greenville is more than just ECU folks.

Until ECU makes a major investment/effort in its basketball program, it will never even be the most popular program in its own city.

No ECU fans have mentioned our Woodies. They get coverage every day.

(07-19-2017 02:46 PM)TheOrigamiJimmyChin Wrote:  My take on Houston:

1) TEXANS (no doubt about it)

2) Astros/Rockets

3) Houston/A&M football

4) UT-Austin football

5) LSU football

6) High school football

7) Dynamo soccer

8) Cougar basketball

9) Rice Owl football

10) Cougar baseball

11) Houston Dash soccer

12) Rice Owl baseball

13) Texas Southern football

14) Rice Owl basketball

15) Houston Track & Field

16) Houston Baptist sports

17) Sugar Land Skeeters (minor league baseball)


In Houston it's clear the NFL's Texans are at the top, win or lose. The Astros and Rockets fall right behind, and their ranking depends on who's winning. After that, college football rules, with the biggest winner getting the most press. The last couple years that's been the Coogs, so Houston has been a Houston town. If the Coogs are losing, we fall down below UT/A&M/LSU.

Just my $0.02. Your perspective may differ.

In full agreement here ^^^

I don't see UH dropping from 3rd... In fact, as aggressive as UH has been as of late, facility improvements I mean, 2nd spot isn't far out of reach.

Hard to believe Houston basketball is better than #79 in the local sports hierarchy...

(07-19-2017 11:15 AM)Hood-rich Wrote:  

(07-19-2017 10:34 AM)HuskyU Wrote:  Tier 1:
UCONN

Tier 2:
Red Sox / Yankees
Pats / Giants
Celtics / Knicks

Tier 3:
Hartford Wolfpack (minor league hockey)
Hartford Yard Goats (minor league baseball)

Seriously? UConn is bigger than pro sports in Connecticut?

yeah lol we are crazy about our huskies.

(07-20-2017 07:36 PM)HuskyU Wrote:  Hard to believe Houston basketball is better than #79 in the local sports hierarchy...

After Houston's new basketball arena is complete better recruits will want to play here... Sky is the limit for UH basketball.

(07-20-2017 07:57 PM)BigHouston Wrote:  

(07-20-2017 07:36 PM)HuskyU Wrote:  Hard to believe Houston basketball is better than #79 in the local sports hierarchy...

After Houston's new basketball arena is complete better recruits will want to play here... Sky is the limit for UH basketball.

But will the fans tune in/show up?