A Pac-10 expansion look at attendance

I just thought that’s what I heard. Or is this just saying the actual attendance and not just tickets sold? Good info none the less.

Shoot, everybody else is doing some dumping and picking up, it looks like the PAC10 needs to do a little in house cleaning.

that if the Pac-10 is interested in making expansion fiscally successful (as much as possible), BYU and Utah are the clear cut winners.
Though the Denver market matches—and exceeds SLC—relatively nobody in Denver cares about CU. Like this article says, Denver is Broncos’ country.
In any event, what these market numbers fail to realize, and what this (JP Murph’s) post points out is the enormous market in the west of the LDS population that is dedicated to BYU and Utah. Not only in the west, but really throughout the U.S. … When including those numbers in the market equation, the “Utah market (BYU and Utah)” far exceeds anything the CU Buffs could bring to the table.

This is why the Denver TV Market has been a Big-XII stronghold that the MWC will never touch with the other 3 Front Range schools (CSU, Air Force, Wyoming). The lack of Denver being a dominant market in he original WAC configuration of the 1960s and 1970s is why the Arizona schools chose to merely use the league as a springboard from the old Border Conference to the PAC. The fact that Denver is #16 and Salt Lake City is #31 is where the marketing and $$$ thinking can often be flawed. If the PAC-10 successfully poached Colorado from the Big-XII, it opens up the door for the Big-XII to take BYU, then the PAC-10 loses out on what they could really gain in the Salt Lake City market. They key here is Salt Lake City is a growth market as opposed to a stagnant or declining one. Back in 1984 Salt Lake City was only raked #42, but in the interceding years has surpassed many BCS league market strongholds, and Census Bureau projections will indicate continued strong growth in the coming years, and could have potentially the same effect on the PAC-10 that adding Phoenix did 30 years ago. Salt Lake City is the only sizable and largest market in the overall footprint of both the PAC-10 and Big-XII conferences not to have a school involved. Like many posters here I don;t think taking Utah alone will deliver the Salt Lake City TV market adequately to the BCS. And to everyone who thinks Salt Lake City is a small town market like say Boise, Idaho (#112 Spot DMA), keep in mind that Salt Lake City is no longer the smallest market in the NBA (Oklahoma City and Memphis are significantly behind), and Salt Lake City is now larger than at least 6 NFL markets (Kansas City, Cincinnati, Milwaukee, Jacksonville, Buffalo, New Orleans). The bottom line is that if the PAC-10 takes Colorado along with Utah, they risk having the Big-XII take BYU and take away a bi chunk of what they’ve gained.

Keep in mind that a few years ago Stanford rebuilt their on-campus facility that resulted in a significant capacity reduction, and Cal-Berkley is about to do the same sort of rebuild. Washington also talks about doing the same thing to their aging, but large capacity facility. Even during their leanest years from 2002-2004, BYU was still well over 50,000 per game and has had at least 60,000 available seats for nearly 30 year now. I for one think Utah under built their stadium when Rice-Eccles was reconstructed in the late 1990s, and it should have been built closer to 55,000, and I honestly believe in the post-McBride era they would still be at or near capacity. BYU can and should look a a renovation for Edwards Stadium during the teens no matter what league they end up in.