[Dr Jkel]

I think all conferences have those teams that will NEVER win consistently.....SEE Vandy, Kentucky, etc......from the SEC. While I understand that Vandy is a SCHOOL first and they play football, academics is primarily their focus. The entrance standards at Vandy are incredible. Kentucky is a Basketball school with a football team and all of this is ok to me.......I guess everyone needs balance.

To me the Big 12 is doomed and here is why I think that. Texas, OU and Ok St are the main draws nationally and no one really cares about TT, Iowa St etc......Baylor did bring some attention to themselves this past week because of it being a fun game to watch.

Baylor claims that if OU stays then it will let off the gas on this legal claim......WHAT????? You are waiting on OU? Come on man, really? Talking about being the little brother here. So what is Baylor going to do if OU leaves...sue them too? It is really simple...put a better product on the field Baylor and you will be OK......but Baylor has not been relevant in college football for years....they have only themselves to blame.


I did some figuring the other day about Alabama football. We have 101,000 person stadium. If each person spends only 10.00 at each home game then that is over 1 million in revenue per game.......trust me you can't just spend 10.00 when cokes are 6.00 ea. Most people spend anywhere from 20.00 to 40.00 ea game on concessions. This does not even include the cost of the tickets OR the donation that has to be made just to be able to buy tickets. With all that said a safe estimate per home weekend is about 7.5 million in gross revenue per game and with 7 home games that is around 52 million a year, not including bowl games, T-shirt hat and other stuff that has Alabama on it. I think last year they made 82 mil.


Kinda like the Boise St talk......Their stadium has what 30 to 40 k seating, really? Boise St says " No one will play us" BS the truth is Boise wants a home and home series and they want 75% of the gate....Really 75 %. Why would any major college football school do that....Take Alabama, Penn St, Ohio St, Texas, Tennessee, Michigan, OU etc.... most if not all hold over 100k compared to 40 k at Boise St and they are premier schools so why in the world would they go to Boise, Idaho to a 40k seat stadium to play? Most of the school mentioned above have that many people at spring games.

Baylor has not marketed themselves well enough, done good enough on the field of play and are now suffering and have been riding on the coat tails of OU, Tx, Ok St etc......Seems to me that they are sour grapes because no one really wants them.