Why Rice to the AAC?

[R1Letterman]

NFL, NBA, MLB fans prefer owners/gms that can win while keeping costs down, why are we to believe ncaa fans will want their players paid more and more and more....
What's next, can college teams pick up and move cities to find those bigger markets or get govt to build them that new stadium?

[Zakkker]

NFL, NBA, MLB fans prefer owners/gms that can win while keeping costs down, why are we to believe ncaa fans will want their players paid more and more and more....
What's next, can college teams pick up and move cities to find those bigger markets or get govt to build them that new stadium?

Everybody loves a winner, don't they?

Will the fans want to...? - Who cares? It's a financial relationship between player and club.

[ultracajun]

When is the big market myth going to finally be exposed? It means nothing in college sports.

Even channel 10 and 3 ride LSU harder than us. Schools like Rice and Tulane are invisible in their cities.

[KajunKrazy]

Rice football used to be a big deal. Then around that time (I think), football roster sizes expanded, and they just couldn’t keep up with the larger schools.

Fun fact: All living Rice alumni could fit inside Rice Stadium at any point in time.

They began to fall when the old SW conference broke up and made the Big 12. Rice and Houston were left out. Both went into decline then.

[CajunFun]

A USM friend sent the link to this tweet:

https://twitter.com/CloverleafMall/s...esWINvSog&s=19

My response:

"Oh, you mean like Tuscaloosa or Clemson?"

From my limited understanding, TV drives conference revenues. If a conference is looking at anything except those numbers, they would seem to be making a mistake.

[CajunVic]

. . . so, at some level, how many watch on TV becomes more important that how many watch in person . . .

[fanof71]

Next time there will be a charge for this info...with TV and Radio, here is why market size is important...the currency the ad agency buyer is looking to exchange is agency money for rating points. A rating point represents 1percent of the demo agency is targeting, demo meaning 18 to 49 year olds etc. In a large market like Houston, that percentage reps a very large number of potential viewers, as compared to Lafayette, it's just a few thousand. Agency will assign a cost per rating point to the desired rating...it's what the agency is willing to pay for that 1 percent....lots of research involved with this cpp calculation..in Houston, it could be $5000 a point...an estimated audience comes from the station or network side an sn estimate of the rating is agreed apon... Estimate comes in at a 2.5 rating x $5000 a point equals $12500 for a30 second ad...I'm Lafayette, that cpp is prob $50...or $125 for the 30...since these are estimates, when agency gets the #s for their buy(actuals) the agency will allow for a 10 percent variance in the number..our 2.5 comes in at a 2...the TV or radio outlet will bonus a schedule to agency to make up the half point...same here in Laffy. The difference takes place with that pool of money at the end of the season that is split as per contract with schools...$12500 vs $125...that's why large markets and TV matter...next time I'm charging Turbine for this info...

[CajunVic]

. . . I believe my analysis was simpler and a lot easier to understand . . . I might have to float a price to Turbine . . .

[CajunNation]

A USM friend sent the link to this tweet:

https://twitter.com/CloverleafMall/s...esWINvSog&s=19

My response:

"Oh, you mean like Tuscaloosa or Clemson?"

From my limited understanding, TV drives conference revenues. If a conference is looking at anything except those numbers, they would seem to be making a mistake.

Years ago, I was one of the few here who thought it was a great idea to bring in the likes of Georgia Southern and App State. Some only saw "FCS small market". I saw unlimited potential and passion.

The reason we were able to bring in USM and Marshall now is because we did the right thing back then and quit chasing markets.

The AAC is going to learn this lesson in the coming years while we will continue building. There will come a point in time where we will be cherry picking the AAC. I want SMU, Memphis, Tulane and ECU.

[moorecajun]

Years ago, I was one of the few here who thought it was a great idea to bring in the likes of Georgia Southern and App State. Some only saw "FCS small market". I saw unlimited potential and passion.

The reason we were able to bring in USM and Marshall now is because we did the right thing back then and quit chasing markets.

The AAC is going to learn this lesson in the coming years while we will continue building. There will come a point in time where we will be cherry picking the AAC. I want SMU, Memphis, Tulane and ECU.

I totally agree with this!

[Cajunrunner]

While we had about 5k for the game in Houston last year they may have had 5 hundred.

Yet, they beat our asses and took our lunch money, despite the fact that when you looked at our sideline vs theirs, we were the more obvious bigger and more athletic.

And we won the turnover battle 3 to 1.

146 yards rushing vs 61.
303 yards passing vs 114.
They went 6-6 in the red zone.

Rice wanted it way more than us, and viewing both sidelines from the stands, that was very obvious.

[fanof71]

. . . I believe my analysis was simpler and a lot easier to understand . . . I might have to float a price to Turbine . . .

Don't hate the player ...hate the game...I just went step by step...but, you are correct