(07-21-2019 06:41 AM)Carolina_Low_Country Wrote:  

(07-16-2019 11:58 AM)JRsec Wrote:  

(07-16-2019 06:50 AM)Carolina_Low_Country Wrote:  Just for Reference to NC schools and capacity:
NC State: 57,563
ECU: 51,000
UNC: 50,500
Duke: 40,000
Wake: 31,500
App: 30,000
Charlotte: 15,000

Average Attendance for the SEC 2018: 74,191
You have another 23,000 seats to add and fill.

If we were in the SEC that would be no problem. Miss State just got out of the 50000s recently and Ole Miss stadium is not super large neither is Kentucky and I won’t even bring up Vandy. Point is teams have to be given time to grow to their SEC schedule. We can add seats in front of the Murphy center and another upper deck in the end zone to have 70,000 seat stadium.

All I was posting was showing how ECU football wise is way more P5 in our state than some the ACC schools.

ECU's stadium looks impressive. I have seen it from the outside. However, size comparisons with Mississippi State may not be the best choice. MSU comparatively has the highest percentage in filling their facility in the SEC. In sheer numbers, four SEC schools delivered less.

https://www.al.com/sports/g66l-2019/01/5...-2018.html

Looking at the AAC, UCF and USF had the highest growth in attendance figures from one year to the next. Their attendance figures surpass what is shown for ECU and similar others in the AAC.

http://www.ncaa.org/championships/statis...attendance

I like ECU and respect their accomplishments. For upward mobility in conference affiliation though, the "build it and they will come" approach, needs to be coupled with more comprehensive and convincing selling points.

Would adding ECU (or any other in similar circumstances) assure the SEC would be receiving at least 30+ million more a year, and each SEC member would be distributed 3+ million more a year? Texas can do that. Oklahoma could do that. Clemson, sure. ECU? Not so much.