SLC has little more than 1 million people. It's the 47th largest metropolitan area in the country.
47 Salt Lake City, UT MSA 1,222,540 1,087,873 +12.38% Salt Lake City-Provo-Orem, UT CSA
It's closer to McAllen than Texas' 4th largest market Austin (over 2 million)
65 McAllen-Edinburg-Mission, TX MSA 865,939 774,769 +11.77% McAllen-Edinburg, TX CSA
Utah is a small market.
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Seattle and Portland are bigger than San Antonio and Austin, so I see their markets being wanted. I'd include the PNW-4, but I don't like the geography of a conference that big.
Arizona school have Phoenix and Las Vegas (very close).
You could do away with the mid-section (utah, idaho, colorado, new mexico) altogether on a conference and add teams that capture these markets...
LA 2nd
DFW 4th
Hou 5th
Pho 11th
SFO/NoCal 12th
Sea 15th
Port 25th
SAS 24th
Aus 30th
Vegas 28th
KC 31st
(okc and tulsa are 41st and 50 whatever too)
If I were a network, I'd want those markets. 3 of the top 5 and 5 of the top 12 markets?
UT
Tech
bu
tcu
ouSUX
osu
ku
ksu
ucla
usc
stan
cal
uo
osu
uw
wsu
7 divisional games and 4 non-divisional games every year
Texas alternates UCLA and USC, Stan and Cal, uo and osu, uw and wsu every year. So we travel "away" in LA, SFO-NoCal, Oregon, and Washington every other year.
Pretty good basketball conference too. I'm more open to that. Let's just keep Utah and Colorado out of this whole thing.
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