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<blockquote data-quote="Illinoy" data-source="post: 1230992" data-attributes="member: 11624"><p>this article is a little dated but that fans per school ratio probably hasn't changed much. Essentially:</p><p></p><p>1. The B1G will always be ok because even as mentioned upthread, schools like Michigan, Ohio State, and Penn State have extremely large followings.</p><p>2. The B1G has the highest average amount of fans per school than any other conference.</p><p>3. This article didn't include Rutgers and Maryland joining the B1G, but who knew that the largest amount of football fans in NY were followers of Rutgers. </p><p>4. The article didn't mention this (however another article that I can't find talked about it) discusses that the B1G not only has heavily populated schools and football followings, but our alumni bases spread out throughout the country more than any other conference. This essentially allows us to have an efficient economy of scale in terms of developing a B1G TV market in all regions of the country, whereas conferences such as the SEC have heavy concentrations of fans in the region their schools are located. </p><p></p><p><a href="http://thequad.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/09/19/the-geography-of-college-football-fans-and-realignment-chaos/?_r=0" target="_blank">http://thequad.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/09/19/the-geography-of-college-football-fans-and-realignment-chaos/?_r=0</a></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Illinoy, post: 1230992, member: 11624"] this article is a little dated but that fans per school ratio probably hasn't changed much. Essentially: 1. The B1G will always be ok because even as mentioned upthread, schools like Michigan, Ohio State, and Penn State have extremely large followings. 2. The B1G has the highest average amount of fans per school than any other conference. 3. This article didn't include Rutgers and Maryland joining the B1G, but who knew that the largest amount of football fans in NY were followers of Rutgers. 4. The article didn't mention this (however another article that I can't find talked about it) discusses that the B1G not only has heavily populated schools and football followings, but our alumni bases spread out throughout the country more than any other conference. This essentially allows us to have an efficient economy of scale in terms of developing a B1G TV market in all regions of the country, whereas conferences such as the SEC have heavy concentrations of fans in the region their schools are located. [url]http://thequad.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/09/19/the-geography-of-college-football-fans-and-realignment-chaos/?_r=0[/url] [/QUOTE]
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