(03-18-2017 09:48 PM)Huskies12 Wrote:  

(03-18-2017 07:48 PM)nzmorange Wrote:  

(03-18-2017 07:20 PM)CougarRed Wrote:  

(03-18-2017 06:51 PM)nzmorange Wrote:  Fan interest drives media value, not random and arbitrary geographic lines.

Good thing that UH kicks ass in TV ratings in the city of Houston. Which has about 5-6 million citizens and expected to double by 2050.

Remember how the SEC was praised for expanding with Mizzou. 6 million people live in Missouri. Remember how the Big 10 was praised for exanding into Maryland. 6 million people live in Maryland.

Houston is almost the same size as those two states.

You're talking about arbitrary geographic lines.

Houston doesn't have Penn State's fan support (part of the reason UMD was added), nor does it have UMD's.

It also probably doesn't have MIZZOU's, and it has the added baggage of being in an area that would cut into SEC/TAMU recruiting. There's no way that Aky, LSU, and TAMU would want to elevate Houston.

But back to my original comments: revenue is a factor of how many people will buy a product and the price that they will pay to buy it. That calculation is entirely based off of fan interest.

Ehh... Those geographic lines are and they aren't arbitrary. Even here inNew England where college sports aren't die hard like the Midwest or South. Id be willing to bet there are more "t-shirt" Providence College fans in Westerly, RI and "t-shirt" UConn fans in Stonington, CT ever if they live a few miles apart.

You're changing the discussion to fan support (where the discussion should be). The original claim was that geography mattered in and of itself (i.e. school A is B miles from market C, which has D number of people in it and is therefore worth E dollars). That claim isn't true. Otherwise Yale would equal UConn, which would equal Western Connecticut State University, and so on and so forth.