Originally posted by Longhornfan1024
Recruits parents aren't going to look to go see their kid play in every game, home or away. The distance factor is important for non-revenue sports that have a higher number of away games. You're also including non-conference games. Those are variable both over the years in the same sport and between different sports. For the purposes of the debate in this thread, all that information you looked up and typed down means fuck all.
Your argument that distance traveled is even remotely relevant when discussing pros and cons of joining the SEC means fuck all. We are going to make it rain with all of our extra dough once the SEC network gets going and further down the line when 1st tier rights are renegotiated.
"As one would expect, the SEC dominates the numbers as it does the BCS. The SEC ranked first in revenue among the conferences, reporting $244.4 million in 2010. Only the Big Ten was competitive at $232.4 million. Surprisingly, the Pac-10 came in sixth, behind all of the other automatic-qualifier conferences. The pre-expansion Pac-12 reported $101.9 million in revenues, compared to $158.2 million for the ACC, $148.9 million for the Big 12, and $113.3 million for the Big East."
http://www.saturdaydownsouth.com/2012/financial-data-backs-up-sec-on-the-field-domination/Note, those are 2010 numbers, when the Bevo 10 had the Nebraska, Colorado, and Missouri markets, and before the SEC had Texas and Missouri. The footprint of your dumpster fire of a conference is markedly worse now, and revenues for the conference will likely be closer to the Big East than the ACC, and not remotely in the ballpark of the SEC.
