Interesting read. I hope that this is not a booth.

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http://thequad.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/09/19/the-geography-of-college-football-fans-and-realignment-chaos/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+nyt%2Frss%2FSports+%28NYT+%3E+Sports%29&seid=auto&smid=tw-nytimessports



Pacific-12



The Pacific-12 plays plenty of good football, but the low avidity of college football fans in the Western United States means that it’s in the second-tier as a television product: only U.S.C. and U.C.L.A. have at least 1 million decided fans each. Despite their strong performance on the field, meanwhile, Washington and Oregon rank outside the top 40 in terms of their fan footprint. And other conference schools, like Oregon State, Stanford and Washington State, do poorly by major-conference standards.

As compared to these teams, new additions Colorado (0.5 million fans) and Utah (0.4 million) look tolerable — but their fan bases are likewise middling by national standards.

On the other hand, the Pacific-12’s latest targets — Texas, Oklahoma, Texas Tech and Oklahoma State — have about 5.1 million fans between them, which would expand the conference’s aggregate fan base by almost 70 percent. No wonder the Pacific-12 might be willing to make some academic and geographic compromises in order to get them.

huge discussion on this article here:

http://bearinsider.com/forums/showthread.php?t=47544

But while it's on my mind, I'll throw this out there - what will this map look like in 10, 20, even 30 years from now? People cant get away from Ohio and Mich quick enough these days.

ColoradoBear1;575249 said:

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huge discussion on this article here:

http://bearinsider.com/forums/showthread.php?t=47544

But while it's on my mind, I'll throw this out there - what will this map look like in 10, 20, even 30 years from now? People cant get away from Ohio and Mich quick enough these days.

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Texas benefits from worker migration as does a lot of the other South-autos being made in Tenn and Alabama not Michigan. Blacks are migrating back to the South from their Northern diaspora. Retirees will continue to make their way to Arizona and Florida. California will continue to grow but probably at a lesser pace.

GB54;575258 said:

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Texas benefits from worker migration as does a lot of the other South-autos being made in Tenn and Alabama not Michigan. Blacks are migrating back to the South from their Northern diaspora. Retirees will continue to make their way to Arizona and Florida. California will continue to grow but probably at a lesser pace.

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GB54, don't forget Nevada with our taxes, oh I meant lack of state taxes!!!

California, the state, is so screwed...

Lack of taxes is required for Nevada. Outside of Tahoe the entire state is an uninhabitable wasteland.