re: Slive's love affair with Atlanta

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If it ever came down to Houston, I would think It would be in the Toyota Center (home of the Rockets), not in Reliant Stadium.

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Toyota Center holds 18K
Georgia Dome holds 70K (for basketball)

In 2011 the Georgia Dome drew about 200K. How are you getting 200K numbers from Toyota Center? They call the BBN the "blue mist" for a reason. Nashville can draw 100K+ from BBN and Atlanta can draw excellent numbers as well. No way Houston draws 100K from BBN.

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I honestly don't have a clue about who would come from where; but perhaps expanding the tourney site would help with marketing, as well as to pull fans from places other than just UK?

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Now you get the understanding of the real issue. If the SEC could sell M basketball without UK they would have already done so. If you can figure out that marketing and make it work you would have a better job than just selling seats in the SEC. Some global company would already have you on their payroll. UT and TAMU both have NC's for W basketball but when it comes to traveling fans UT blows the doors off TAMU. It is what it is.

23,706 showed up this year for Kentucky vs Duke. While that may seem small for a Men's game it is in the Top 5 or Top 10 in a Women's game, and this was a Women's game. Do you see roughly 24,000 attending a regular season non conference game for TAMU? Kentucky may not have the cache Tennessee does when it comes to the women, but they have a rabid enough fan base to sell tickets anyway.