EverettGriz said:
No one is suggesting the P12 revenue is not below other conferences. But that certainly ain’t due to the reasons you propose: a small geographic footprint and small tv markets, as I clearly, objectively and incontrovertibly outline above.
Ans no, SLC and Boulder being P12 cities is not a joke, but rather very, very unjokish.
Alabama. (No major pro competition)
Georgia (The Atlanta Falcons. Braves. And Atlanta a United is more successful than the first and bigger than the indoor teams. Eh, it is the south)
Clemson (No major pro competition)
Ohio State (Cleveland Browns, Cincinnati Bengals, continuing the “what have they ever won” theme)
And we can go down the line.
Whereas the Pac-12 conference is a cavalcade of schools in markets with mostly better pro teams, depending on what you think of the Cardinals or Chargers. The exceptions are Arizona (a basketball school), Washington State (Pullman is so far away from, oh, anything), and arguably the Oregon schools, except they’re close enough to Portland that radio stations in Portland run traffic reports for down the valley on football game days. The West Coast has a lot of major markets and really few “mid-major markets” that drive up the rural population of their states in the manner that the Midwest has in spades. The South is really more mid-major markets than major ones.
Then the coast has a more transient population. Put it this way… I know where Portland’s Kansas State fans congregate for games, and that’s at an intersection near downtown that gets more traffic in a typical morning than will show up in a season of Portland State games.