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College Football Selection Committee

Highlander said:
Violent agreement here. To my knowledge, the value baseline for TV agreements is the size of the markets of the conference teams, not historical viewership rates, which is would seem the more logical metric to use.
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If the people making these decisions are in fact that stupid (not saying they aren't), then the goats' dreams may come true...

I still think too much money is on the line for that level of incompetence. On the other hand one thing I've learned to never bet against is the capacity of human beings to be really, really stupid.
 
skibum said:
If the people making these decisions are in fact that stupid (not saying they aren't), then the goats' dreams may come true...

I still think too much money is on the line for that level of incompetence. On the other hand one thing I've learned to never bet against is the capacity of human beings to be really, really stupid.
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That's where CU is viewed quite favorably in the Boulder-Denver-Aurora metro statistics. Ft Collins is its own, so the Ewes are screwed...
 
The way that OU and Okie Lite would be pried apart, if it ever did happen, is if it became obvious that both schools would be left behind if they insisted on staying together. To me, OU has such a 'name' that it's all but impossible that some conference somewhere wouldn't take Okie Lite just to bring in OU.
 
Maybe the playoff should be "East" versus "West".

All those schools beat the sheat out of each other on that said of the river while the winner of the PAC and MWC play each other to be in the West seat. :smile2:
 
Highlander said:
Check again. Not trying to be a dick, but without even looking it up I can certify the states of Maryland and New Jersey have wildly higher populations than Oklahoma.

You can argue real life Saturday viewership trends all day long, but that has not been what has driven TV negotiations.
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No absolutely, MD and NJ are much more populated for sure. But my point was more along the lines of what skibum posted, which is why I think that these conferences targeting major markets isn't necessarily the best strategy. But let me also qualify that by saying I don't know what the studies show, so it's quite possible that even in markets like NYC or DC where a very very small percentage of the people are college football fans that it's still a good strategy for these conferences to get into big markets. But just looking at it logically it doesn't make sense to me because college football is generally a bigger draw in medium-to-smaller and even somewhat rural markets that aren't NFL-driven.
 
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