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Message: [QUOTE="UConnNick, post: 3101189, member: 1526"] Most of this post is so wrong I don't even know where to begin. Football attendance when we were routinely making it to bowl games was near sellout on average. The Fiesta Bowl was well attended by Husky fans. It's estimated that 15,000 UCONN fans made the trip. They bought tickets on the secondary market so it doesn't show up in ticket sales through the school. I have personally attended most of our bowl games. We had good crowds at all of them. New England isn't a big time market for college football, but if you win enough the fans will show up. We've already demonstrated that in the past. As for markets, we sit in between Boston and NYC, two of the biggest media markets in the country. SNY values us over any other college sports they cover. The local Hartford/New Haven market is 33rd in the country. Fairfield Co. is considered part of the metro NYC market. Our media market is fine and compares favorably with any other AAC school. In states like Florida and Texas, our AAC teams are in media markets dominated by P5 schools. I've lived in both states. UCF and USF are dwarfed by the Florida Gators in their own local markets. In Houston and Dallas, UT, A&M, TCU, Baylor and TX Tech all have huge followings, far surpassing the fanbases of the AAC schools. Temple is dwarfed by Penn State in its market. Memphis is perhaps our closest competition from a media market standpoint, but Memphis vs. a big chunk of the Northeast corridor is a win for us. UCONN has no local media market competition like almost all the other AAC schools do. The biggest reason to seek P5 inclusion is the possibility that those schools will eventually decide to break away from the NCAA and form their own governing body, so they get to keep an even bigger slice of the money pie. If that happens and we're still in a mid major league, we get to go back to playing Vermont, U Hartford and Boston U, instead of South Carolina, Baylor and Louisville. Football can be fixed because there is still time to do it before the first of the P5 media rights deals come up for renewal. UCONN will support a winning program. We already have and will again. [/QUOTE]

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