How Many Non AQ Schools W/O TV Markets Left ?

PlummMeanGreen · October 15, 2011

First question on thesubject bar was only to focus on the fact that even in the midst of all this present re-alignment insanity the University of North Texas is still strategically sitting pretty as the "only" non AQ school in the North Texas Metroplex and for all of those who are getting their shots in now at UNT based on one game's attendance (how shallow is that) and since those same schools totally ignored posting on their boards this headline: NORTH TEXAS IN NEW FOOTBALL PALACE SETS A CONSECUTIVE 2 GAME ON-CAMPUS ATTENDANCE RECORD TOPPED BY WIN OVER BIG 10 SCHOOL!

....did any of you see that headline on some of our usual detractor's message boards? :rolleyes:

...nevertheless, we will be the school that gets in the last shot (not that we would waste our time doing so) because of our location that will favor us. Plus....we now have a premier number of major sports venues that when we get a conference commissioner up to Denton, they will not go away after their tour thinking of any other school that (1) can touch what we have in our Mean Green Village with Apogee Stadium as its crowning jewel and......... (2) nor can they bring the #4 ranked TV market in the USA with them, either. That is our winning combo and then add some winning seasons to that equation which Dan McCarney will and it's all gravy.

Apogee Stadium gives us the chance to do what Fout Field never gave any other Mean Green head football coach prior to Coach Mac. We are still building in our post Fouts Field phase of North Texas athletics and considering the last few seasons, averaging over 20,000 REAL BUTTS IN SEATS is not so bad in light of the last several seasons of under .500 records--albeit we know what wins will do to inflate that.

Many on this board have not seen a winning Mean Green football program starting with our last few years record-breaking UNT Freshmen classes--can you imagine that group when we do start having winning seasons? The sky will literally be the limit at Apogee Stadium when that happens with all those past Freshmen classes and beyond.

Because we know this re-alignment business ain't near over there are 1 or 2 non AQ conferences out there whose Commissioners will eventually be told by those moguls who put their conference TV packages together (and pay for those packages with advertisers they help secure) this...

"Commish', your league still needs more significant TV market coverage for our advertisers to be interested in buying what your conference has to offer for those advertisers to want to invest in your conference. I mean they have to know that a significant amount of population in your leagues' footstep are watching their commercials. "

GMG!

Edited October 15, 2011 by PlummMeanGreen