Updated throughout the day with quick takes from staff.
By now, you're sick of hearing about conferences adding schools for the sake of picking up big TV markets. But if you'd like a better sense of what that means, you should read Nate Silver's Monday afternoon conference realignment piece. It has charts.
As Silver notes several times, it's not a perfect look at how much each market and school means in the big picture. However, charts are fun.
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I disqualify anything
that says Georgia Tech has 50% more fans than UGA.
by Mark Mandingo on Sep 19, 2011 5:06 PM EDT via mobile reply actions
Online survey
GT could easily have 50% more internet-using fans than UGA.
by wolfpack2454 on Sep 19, 2011 9:31 PM EDT up reply actions
Other sports affected by realignment
Has anyone considered how much other revenue producing sports will affect realignment. Obviously basketball in ACC. Does anybody have figures on how much income is produced from non-football sports at various colleges?
by strickinms on Sep 19, 2011 6:30 PM EDT reply actions
Facts not fiction
I think that you should check Nate Silver’s data; it looks very erroneous in several areas.
by strickinms on Sep 19, 2011 6:51 PM EDT reply actions
You guys are no fun.
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by Jason Kirk on Sep 19, 2011 6:54 PM EDT up reply actions
erroneous data needs more unicorns
by Mark Mandingo on Sep 19, 2011 7:28 PM EDT via mobile up reply actions
Silver concedes the data is imperfect and the point is to paint in broad strokes
The best part is to see which schools in the conferences that are breaking up have the most mass-media appeal. The obvious ones are the bigger Tx schools plus OK, KU Mizzou. West Virginia and Rutgers are the better peices from the Big East.
And obviously ND is the big prize if anyone can snag it.
by river-z on Sep 19, 2011 9:05 PM EDT reply actions
right
but with data this inaccurate, the broad stroke is “people like college football”. It’s kind of hard to judge Georgia Techs mass appeal when they’re listed as having more fans than UGA, LSU, FSU, and USC. Did you know that college football city USA (Boston College) has a bigger fanbase than UW or Oregon. How bout those Aggies putting the sooners in their places. I’m not trying to be a overly snarky, but this data isn’t slightly off, its dramatically off. I wouldn’t call it inaccurate, I would just call it incorrect. It’s hard to put stock in any conclusions drawn from incorrect data.
by Mark Mandingo on Sep 19, 2011 10:39 PM EDT via mobile up reply actions
I googled "college football city USA" and there were two results.
seems to describe BC football just about right.
by river-z on Sep 19, 2011 11:45 PM EDT up reply actions
I don't know any serious fan
who Googles “college football.”
If you’re for real, you know your team’s site or at least have it bookmarked.
by wolfpack2454 on Sep 19, 2011 9:33 PM EDT reply actions 1 recs
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