Report: OU & Texas reach out to join SEC

[deadeyededric]

Please tell me you’re going back to your mizzou board.

I lived in stl for several years and no one gave a flying **** about mizzou.

I lived in the northern part of Missouri for 5 years and there are Mizzou fans everywhere. Probably not quite like Iowa fans in Iowa but every bit as numerous as ISU fans. Christ most counties in Iowa are 90% Iowa fans. You pretty much have to be in Story County to even see a lot of ISU fans.

 

[deadeyededric]

Mizzou bball is a shell of what it once was. I have several friends who are alums who absolutely hate what has happened to their bball program.

So that must mean they aren't fans anymore and don't care? Look at Hilton Mausoleum now!

 

[BillBrasky4Cy]

It's viable in the sense that there would still be football played at ISU and Iowa. It's not viable in the sense that you're going to get 50k plus fans to attend games on a regular basis. Think UNI, because that is what ISU and Iowa would become.

My hope is that more teams will be invited to whatever new venture the SEC is proposing than just the blue bloods. Otherwise...sad trombone

If this scenario did come to fruition can you imagine the debt that won't be able to be paid off?

 

[Clark]

you people are absolutely delusional about ISU.

I have no idea who is right in the little debate but he did make a terrible comparison. The comparison to make is rating for when Missouri is really good vs when ISU is really good (or when ISU and Mizzou are both bad)

Comparing ratings for when ISU is good and Mizzou is bad is meaningless. Yeah no **** good teams will have better ratings than bad ones. That's because good teams get put on better channels than bad ones.

 

[Die4Cy]

So the SEC adds OU and Texas, and you think the Big 10 adding ISU is leveling things out?

What is far more likely is the Big 10 and Pac 12 revive that partnership idea they had the last time the Big 12 was possibly imploding.

Frankly what I'm scared is going to happen is OSU, Michigan, and PSU leave the Big 10, Clemson, FSU, and Miami leave the ACC, USC, Oregon, and Washington leave the Pac 12 (or some other combination of departures for the new SEC league) and ISU and Iowa will be in the same conference in the new 1AA league.

This is the goal.

Football powers are getting sick and tired of supporting these athletics departments other programs. They know they will be needing that money for payroll.

 

[CloneJD]

I lived in the northern part of Missouri for 5 years and there are Mizzou fans everywhere. Probably not quite like Iowa fans in Iowa but every bit as numerous as ISU fans. Christ most counties in Iowa are 90% Iowa fans. You pretty much have to be in Story County to even see a lot of ISU fans.

WHO THE **** CARES

 

[deadeyededric]

I have no idea who is right in the little debate but he did make a terrible comparison. The comparison to make is rating for when Missouri is really good vs when ISU is really good (or when ISU and Mizzou are both bad)

Comparing ratings for when ISU is good and Mizzou is bad is meaningless. Yeah no **** good teams will have better ratings than bad ones. That's because good teams get put on better channels than bad ones.

It's not even a ******* knock on ISU. JFC Missouri is essentially the only show in that state. The state has 3 times as many people in it as Iowa. Not hard to figure out why they have a larger fanbase.

 

[1UNI2ISU]

The Pac 12 is not going to be a power league if the trajectory stays the same.

LOL. Stanford and Berkley definitely want to be associated with K State...

 

[Macloney]

I think ISU should bring back baseball!

 

[ForeverIowan]

you people are absolutely delusional about ISU.

You're a moron. Stop acting like Mizzou is some national brand. Kansas City is a KU town first, K State second and Mizzou third. St. Louis is not a college football city by any stretch of the imagination.

 

[Clark]

If OU and Texas leave for the SEC and ND isn't in play for the B1G their options to get to 16 are KU and Iowa State. Either way, Iowa State will land on their feet however this shakes out.

why do they have to get to 16? That's the point you seem to be missing. Even if you're of the opinion that there will be 4 super conferences, there is no reason that all of them would have to have 16 teams.

 

[deadeyededric]

The Pac 12 is not going to be a power league if the trajectory stays the same.


LOL. Stanford and Berkley definitely want to be associated with K State...

But KSU has loyal fans!

 

[1UNI2ISU]

It's not even a ******* knock on ISU. JFC Missouri is essentially the only show in that state. The state has 3 times as many people in it as Iowa. Not hard to figure out why they have a larger fanbase.

Hell, MIzzou is so powerful in the state it took Southwest Missouri State 15 years to get the legislature to let them be Missouri State because Mizzou was worried people would think they're in Springfield instead of Columbia.

 

[Triggermv]

I think ISU should bring back baseball!

No, all this distraction is perfect to bring back the Endzone hot tub

 

[deadeyededric]

Now I'm stupid for saying Iowa has more fans than ISU. I thought we all knew that.

 

[2speedy1]

why do they have to get to 16? That's the point you seem to be missing. Even if you're of the opinion that there will be 4 super conferences, there is no reason that all of them would have to have 16 teams.

Because, Clark.

 

[AuH2O]

Yeah I'm a huge Mizzou fan. You're on crack if you think ISU has more fans than Mizzou. ISU doesn't even have as many fans as Iowa. JFC perspective!

So in an 8-5 year, the average number of tickets actually scanned in 2018 was about 24,000. Does it matter if people claim to be "fans" if nobody shows up to their games when they are decent and in the prominent conference in the sport?

Ticket sales tumble as Missouri football tries to keep up

According to NCAA reporting documents obtained by the Missourian through an open-records request, the number of tickets scanned for Missouri's seven home football games in 2018 was 24,377 per game,

www.columbiamissourian.com

And your Boise example doesn't hold water. They average like 34,000 per game. Travel to bowls or not.

Moving forward the number of people that will proactively seek out games and pay for the right to watch them will be all that matters. How many subscribers to ESPNU or BTN a market generates on accident because Grandma wants to watch the Food Network will be meaningless. In other words, Rutgers is **** worthless moving forward.

Sorry, at this point the best proxy we have for that is attendance. It may not be a great metric of this, but it's the best we have. And Mizzou sucks balls in that metric despite being 2 hours from the two metros that far and away hold their fans.

 

[deadeyededric]

Hell, MIzzou is so powerful in the state it took Southwest Missouri State 15 years to get the legislature to let them be Missouri State because Mizzou was worried people would think they're in Springfield instead of Columbia.

Which has zero to do with the number of fans they have.

 

[deadeyededric]

So in an 8-5 year, the average number of tickets actually scanned in 2018 was about 24,000. Does it matter if people claim to be "fans" if nobody shows up to their games when they are decent and in the prominent conference in the sport?

Ticket sales tumble as Missouri football tries to keep up

According to NCAA reporting documents obtained by the Missourian through an open-records request, the number of tickets scanned for Missouri's seven home football games in 2018 was 24,377 per game,

www.columbiamissourian.com

And your Boise example doesn't hold water. They average like 34,000 per game. Travel to bowls or not.

Moving forward the number of people that will proactively seek out games and pay for the right to watch them will be all that matters. How many subscribers to ESPNU or BTN a market generates on accident because Grandma wants to watch the Food Network will be meaningless. In other words, Rutgers is **** worthless moving forward.

Sorry, at this point the best proxy we have for that is attendance. It may not be a great metric of this, but it's the best we have. And Mizzou sucks balls in that metric despite being 2 hours from the two metros that far and away hold their fans.

Nobody goes to UCLA and USC games either yet they are still more attractive schools than ISU.

 

[CloneJD]

We may need the ban hammer for the mizzou guy flaking out in here