@CoreyClark
Houston? Hard no. Big market? Sure, but folks don't follow Cougar High in Houston. They have a decent little new stadium that seats close to 40,000, but their average attendance typically stinks. Here it is from the past few years (not including 2020 due to COVID):
@Dot Com
You made a comment something along the lines of how we (or other ACC schools) cannot compete with SEC schools when they have twice as much money as us. It came across to me that you might be one of the folks that seems to think that the ONLY money in a school's athletic budget comes from their media rights deals. Obviously you know that that is not the case. These multi media rights deals typically make up a third or less of a schools total athletic budget. While they are sometimes the single largest revenue stream, they are not nearly even half of a schools total athletic revenue (well, maybe they are for Wake or some smaller schools, but not for FSU and Clemson and bigger schools).
Also, for all of you guys ... don't forget that the B10 already makes about $10 million more per school in their media rights deal (thanks largely to the Big Ten Network). They will also get a new deal shortly and they will likely get a nice boost. This is part of why the SEC has made their move so they can keep pace with the Big Ten.
And the idea that only seven or so schools could compete for the national title is just silly. There are more schools than that that are in position to be able to compete. Not all can every year though, and that includes LSU and Alabama (both of which have had off-seasons in the past two years). There are 17 Blood programs and then another 5-6 programs that are close and who can compete. Some of the Blood programs are way down though (Nebraska, Tennessee, Miami, us).
These programs have the wherewithal to compete for national championships:
A few other schools are on the verge of joining this group. They have shown in the past 20 years that they can have top-10 teams and go to major bowls and they all have a commitment to football.
Houston? Hard no. Big market? Sure, but folks don't follow Cougar High in Houston. They have a decent little new stadium that seats close to 40,000, but their average attendance typically stinks. Here it is from the past few years (not including 2020 due to COVID):
- 2019: 25,518
- 2018: 29,838
- 2017: 32,583
- 2016: 38,953
- 2015: 33,980
@Dot Com
You made a comment something along the lines of how we (or other ACC schools) cannot compete with SEC schools when they have twice as much money as us. It came across to me that you might be one of the folks that seems to think that the ONLY money in a school's athletic budget comes from their media rights deals. Obviously you know that that is not the case. These multi media rights deals typically make up a third or less of a schools total athletic budget. While they are sometimes the single largest revenue stream, they are not nearly even half of a schools total athletic revenue (well, maybe they are for Wake or some smaller schools, but not for FSU and Clemson and bigger schools).
Also, for all of you guys ... don't forget that the B10 already makes about $10 million more per school in their media rights deal (thanks largely to the Big Ten Network). They will also get a new deal shortly and they will likely get a nice boost. This is part of why the SEC has made their move so they can keep pace with the Big Ten.
And the idea that only seven or so schools could compete for the national title is just silly. There are more schools than that that are in position to be able to compete. Not all can every year though, and that includes LSU and Alabama (both of which have had off-seasons in the past two years). There are 17 Blood programs and then another 5-6 programs that are close and who can compete. Some of the Blood programs are way down though (Nebraska, Tennessee, Miami, us).
These programs have the wherewithal to compete for national championships:
- Notre Dame
- Alabama
- Southern Cal
- Oklahoma
- Texas
- Ohio State
- Michigan
- Nebraska
- Penn State
- Florida State
- Florida
- Miami
- LSU
- Georgia
- Tennessee
- Auburn
- Clemson
A few other schools are on the verge of joining this group. They have shown in the past 20 years that they can have top-10 teams and go to major bowls and they all have a commitment to football.
- Texas A&M
- Washington
- Oregon
- Michigan State
- Wisconsin
- Virginia Tech
