What makes a "Power Conference?"

[theR3DandtheBLU3]

food for thought

(from the AAC facebook page)

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[East Coast Mustang]

$20M+ TV revenue per school?

[theR3DandtheBLU3]

$20M+ TV revenue per school?

well...yes...but I'd like to think winning helps a little too

[fifty]

Having Rutgers and Maryland?

[sbsmith]

Getting paid a lot of money for delivering viewers to networks.

[peruna81]

at present, our absence...

[PonySnob]

More than 15,000 in attendance at football games............


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[BiPolarBear]

$20M+ TV revenue per school?

well...yes...but I'd like to think winning helps a little too

To attract fans you must win and maybe be creative at how you do it, Boise State for example. Then you have to attract enough TV viewers to generate $23 to $40 million extra to that Conference's TV Contract.

The Big 12 may be in the market for new teams without a guarantee TV Contract increase of $23 to $40 million if, and only if, it becomes apparent that without a championship game, they will have a hard time getting a team into the National Championship Playoff. To have a championship game under current NCAA guidelines you have to have at least 12 teams.

BYU would certainly be the next available school invited. The question then is do they want just 12 teams or will they go to 14 or 16. The next question would be do they want to go East to give WVU Partners or will they try to stay true to their regional footprint.

It is this man's opinion that by 2030 you are going to see Nationally Spread-out Football Only Conferences for the really big boys and separate regional conferences for all other sports. I am afraid that my beloved Baylor, TCU, Kansas, Vanderbilt, Northwestern, Duke, Wake Forest etc. will not make that cut.

[zimo]

Power.

[smusic 00]

You need a power bottom, too.

[covok48]

All of these are the right answer.

[CalallenStang]

You need a power bottom, too.

Kansas football says hi.

What makes a power conference? ESPN saying that you are a power conference.

[BiPolarBear]

If SMU is willing to pay the financial price they can build a football program worthy of a Power Conference's attention.

Before Art Briles and RGIII came to Baylor our average game attendance was very similar to SMU's. Our overall facilities were the worst in the Big 12 but with the exception of The Ferrell Center and Baylor Ball Park. After the purge of the AD and School President the Board of Regents knew that to remove the stain and stench of the Basketball Murder Scandal a major, major, major commitment to Facility Investment and Coaches was the only way to prevent the destruction of the Baylor Athletic Program. It had to be done to show the Big 12 Baylor was serious about it's position in the Conference.

SMU can make the same investment but you will have to make the same investment that the Power Conference Schools are making without the benefit of the TV money the Power Conferences get. Like TCU did back in it's Mountain West Days.

Baylor leads the Big 12 conference in the Graduation of it's athletics. Above the national average in football for players. SMU can find the same athletes but focus on the Metroplex first and Texas Second.

The most important thing is win, win with flair, sell out your stadium, and get national attention. That will mean a coach who will have to a plan and game scheme that starts wining games before talent arrives. It will be hard and tough but it can be done.

[East Coast Mustang]

^ well said, BiPolarBear.

We have a lot of built-in advantages going for us: a huge (and rapidly growing) TV market, great academics, a beautiful campus, and a brand that is very recognizable when compared to other G5 programs. We just need to keep pumping out winning seasons and bowl berths and get up to the top of the AAC where we're in contention for the conference title and G5 major bowl bid each year. Also, we need to beat teams people have heard of to generate excitement in the Dallas community - this is why I think it's dumb for us to schedule TCU and three patsies for our OOC slate. We need teams people have heard of to play us and get beat by us to establish a consistent following.