(01-07-2014 09:51 AM)ncbeta Wrote:  

(01-07-2014 08:49 AM)vandiver49 Wrote:  

(01-06-2014 10:37 PM)ncbeta Wrote:  

(01-06-2014 09:59 AM)vandiver49 Wrote:  

(01-04-2014 09:01 PM)nomad2u2001 Wrote:  I hate to bump to say something stupid but, I've always thought the most badass school name is Sewanee: The University of the South. How about some shape or form of East Carolina: The University of the Carolinas. The "Carolinas" may be redundant.

I'm not sure that would work. I really ECU is more hampered by a crowded market than any other factor.

Idk... we've easily got our share in NC. Probably a higher percentage of our state than any other G5 school. We really need to expand beyond the VA/NC/SC area...

But ECU's share is divided by 5. I know ad execs have access to reams of data, but I also believe they do a great deal of spit-balling as well. Does ECU outdraw Duke and Wake in viewership? Probably, but clearly that never mattered to the BEast.

What they saw was a state with 4 FBS teams and a population of 9-10 million people. With regard to CFB, no team in the Tarheel State can claim to have the critical mass of viewership. The population is too diffused across the state and the fandoms are too board.

Wake and Duke veiwership is pretty much nil. Wake would be lucky to be fbs ifnit wasnt for the ACC. Duke fans dont show til Bball season as most of them pull for someone else in fb. NC fb has always been Unc, State and ECU and our rating when on similar platforms prove it. You are right about the BE, but their methods and practices were flawed. Basketball first, large metro areas (even if the school didnt deliver) serving the C7. Some of the worst leadership ive seen.

I remember Duke coming to Florida State for a football game and didn't even bring the band. Pitiful.