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Posted on 11/21/12 at 12:04 pm to BigD Ag
Posted on 11/21/12 at 12:04 pm to BigD Ag
quote:In the realm of collegiate sports, you are nowhere near the draw of an Oklahoma. You do realize that, don't you? Oklahoma will deliver TV ratings in all 50 states; you provide competition to Texas in the Texas markets. Nobody on either coast, or in the Rust Belt, cares about A&M. Oklahoma, on the other hand, they still do. Short of Notre Dame, Oklahoma's got as much impact as any school in the country.
Methinks you're not very educated on media markets and such if you're calling TAMU a medium guy.
On top of that...TAMU could have gone B1G, Pac, ACC, or SEC. Alone.
OU cannot go to some of those. Some because of academics.
Nothing personal, and that's why I said MEDIUM instead of LITTLE. Because you DO provide some new juice to the blend. Just, not the juice the Sooners would. Nobody in, say, Big 10 territory cares about you; but Oklahoma is still national.
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Posted on 11/21/12 at 12:26 pm to Scoob
According college football viewer analysis across 210 major media markets by statistician at New York Times, projected viewer rankings are:
#6 - Texas A&M 2,030,188 viewers
#19 - Oklahoma 1,201,587 viewers
#6 - Texas A&M 2,030,188 viewers
#19 - Oklahoma 1,201,587 viewers
Posted on 11/21/12 at 12:48 pm to Scoob
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In the realm of collegiate sports, you are nowhere near the draw of an Oklahoma. You do realize that, don't you? Oklahoma will deliver TV ratings in all 50 states; you provide competition to Texas in the Texas markets. Nobody on either coast, or in the Rust Belt, cares about A&M. Oklahoma, on the other hand, they still do. Short of Notre Dame, Oklahoma's got as much impact as any school in the country.
Not the way it works. You do realize that, don't you? TAMU provides far more than OU to a conference because of Texas. Take the SEC Network. It will be at the very least $1+ per TV set that has the SEC Network in states with an SEC footprint versus 5 cents per TV set in states without an SEC footprint. This before I get in to the growing importance (although that's already important to B1G, ACC, and to a lesser extent the PAC) of academics and prestige.
You'd be the only commish in America that would take OU over the Ags and you'd be out of a job immediately upon making that decision. And FWIW the B1G did court TAMU. There were plenty of articles written about that and were plastered all over Northwestern's sites. And our ratings have done just fine this year, better than OU's.
This post was edited on 11/21/12 at 12:52 pm
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