What are you talking about? You are aware that dirt doesn't watch TV, buy tickets, or vote, n'est pas?
if it wasn't clear (it was), I was referring to ASU being in the Phoenix metro area (5 million); Colorado being in the Denver metro area (3 million); Utah in the SLC metro area (1.3M); and Arizona being in the Tuscon metro area (1 million) compared to OSU in Corvallis counting a city 85 miles away as part of their TV market. Or WSU in Pullman claiming that Seattle is their TV market when it's 285 miles away. Eugene is closer to Seattle than Pullman is. when the Pac-12 collapsed, the Big-12 was there ready to add teams. There was a pro-rata clause in the existing Big-12 media deal. The media partners and the conference were willing and eager to exercise that clause in order to add those 4 schools. They weren't willing to exercise the clause for OSU/WSU. I guess maybe they just didn't buy the argument that OSU brought Portland along and WSU brought Seattle.
