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Message: [QUOTE="WoadBlue, post: 5359785, member: 1145"] I think you may under think because you are bound too seeing things from a northeastern view, which means from a view from the region with per capital the far fewest passionate CFB fans. That is why BE football was plays fool's gold and worse. First, popular on TV back when there was 1 TV deal covering all means nothing, because was a close market. And that closed market favored the BT over everybody, with its Repose Bowl partner the Pac favored 2nd most. The most national broadcasts each year were BT or BT vs. Pac. When games were in pairs, one for east of the Mississippi and one for west of the Mississippi, the east was the BT as much as ll the schools combined, and the west was the Pac far more than any other league. Ion terms of regional broadcasts, the BT again was granted immense favor at every turn,. The BT was given the entire northeast as part of its 'home' area, which hurt all schools located in the northeastern states save PSU, which already had such a huge and passionate fan base it could not at that time be hurt by that. The ACC was also badly hurt ion favor of the BT as unless Maryland were ranked and playing a ranked team, Baltimore/DC was deemed BT territory. Those 2 issues explain why the first CBS national broadcast of regular season CFB was pre-season #5 UNC at pre-season #1 Pitt. The year before, that very game would not have been a national broadcast, and probably not even an east of the Mississippi broadcast. And yes the BT in that old model also was allowed to hurt the SEC. The Louisville TV market almost always showed BT games, unless UK was on against a bigger name SEC program. So what were back then deemed popular teams was largely because the one TV deal for all that favored the BT all the time earned everybody not in the BT or Pac unless it already had a huge fan base that was totally devoted. People just assumed that everybody would want to watch BT football all the time, except for the backwards people in the South who did not know any better. You have things backwards most of thrice. The SEC winning a whole bunch of National Championships did nit make the SEC popular. The SEC was massively popular long before that. The massive popularity of CFB in SEC states + the huge numbers of locally produced top players + the huge SEC game crowds + massive national popularity as soon as people could see SEC football regularly. And that then led to the massive SEC run of winning national championships. The real estate maxim location, location, location is always true, but only when the right specifics and parameters are applied. Ideal locations for casinos are not the same as ideal locations for Tech development which are not the ideal locations for family neighborhood development. And location best for CBB never equals location best for CFB, much less location best for NFL equal locations best for CFB. So the first priority should be to maximize whatever you can of location best for CFB. And avoid location near the bottom for CFB. But location alone cannot make anything work. Rice is simply too small to make it in the post 1960s world of Major conference college sports even if it had alums as football obsessed as SMU has. And then there is the problem of Houston itself, which makes it somewhat akin to northeastern cities. The U of Houston was the last SWC school added, and that was in the 1970s. Rice had been a SWC winner quite a bit until the start of the 1960s, which means Rice was the local football school until Bill Yeoman lifted U of Houston in the late 1960s. But by then, Houston had become a Pro sports town. That is the reason that the U of Houston has never had a nearly large fan base, nor a loyal fan base. In 1989 when Ware won the Heisman on a 9-2 team, the Cougars averaged 30K fans per game, which is what Wake does whenever it can win 7. That's what happens in a Pro sports town, certainly when the college program in question is not a legacy giant - such as SC football. [/QUOTE]

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