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RE: Tulsa likely to Big East
(01-20-2013 06:23 PM)ScreamShatter Wrote: These comments are funny. Tulsa is a decent school, but no one has been able to justify why they would ADD VALUE to our TV deal.
University of Tulsa:
Students 4,352
Undergraduates 3,174
Postgraduates 1,178
Region Population 946,962
Let's compare that to a few random nBE members.
University of Houston:
Students 40,747
Undergraduates 31,367
Postgraduates 9,380
Region Population 6,086,538
UCF:
Students 59,767
Undergraduates 50,968
Postgraduates 8,522
Region Population 2,171,360
Tulane:
Students 13,359
Undergraduates 8,338
Postgraduates 5,021
Region Population 1,191,089
Tulsa is half the size of our smallest school and has a metro of 300,000 less than that school. Let's look at some schools we've mentioned as expansion schools:
UNCC:
Students 25,277
Undergraduates 20,283
Postgraduates 4,994
Region Population 1,795,472
UMass:
Students 68,315 (in system)
Amherst 21,370
Region Population 4,591,112
In no way am I saying Tulsa is a bad school, but I'm pointing out that they don't have the fan base, school size, or region that is as large as current schools and the potential schools. I just don't see the VALUE that they bring to the TV deal.
2012 Avg Attendance
Tulsa- 20,020
UMass- 10,901
Charlotte- 0
Do we really want make this about fan base size? Bottom line, Tulsa has no professional sports. Tulsa does have some potential to be much more successful within thier market. Even as it stands now, they seem to be a better choice than the two that are being suggested. Plus they have an established sports program performing at a fairly high level given the resources. Given a better conference affiliation, more exposure, a bit more money, and a more effective marketing effort on thier part, there is some room for significant improvement in attendance and fan base size. They are in a metro area of about a million and have no major league sports competition, no reason they cant get to the 30-40K mark in attendance. Like I said before, I dont mind UMass as a basketball only addition. But thier football is among the worst performing and least supported programs in all of FBS football. We dont need that.
(This post was last modified: 01-20-2013 06:55 PM by Attackcoog.)
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