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<blockquote data-quote="xWVU2010x" data-source="post: 129490555" data-attributes="member: 1467482">The city of Houston is not SEC country, that notion is laughable.&nbsp; Texas is and always will be the most popular college team in Texas.&nbsp; Even if Texas A&amp;M has a stronghold of fans in Houston, if you seriously think the Aggie fans arent watching UT games themselves, you are delusional.&nbsp; We have Texas, which alone means that we command most of the college football viewership in the state of Texas and Houston.&nbsp; We also have TCU, Baylor, and Texas Tech, along with OU and OSU who probably command for Texas viewership than Houston, we have saturated the viewing market in that state.&nbsp; Houston is a complete afterthought down there, even with a program that has done pretty well for itself over the last few years, if you're going to pickup an afterthought you might as well do it for money reasons, and there is a reason Cincy was the first school picked up after Louisville in the Big East conference expansion.I agree they're not exciting, but no viable options are, its about markets and football.&nbsp; Cincy and BYU have the best NEW markets, and they're probably also the best football programs out there of all realistic candidates, they're a no brainer for the first offers if/when the day comes.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="xWVU2010x, post: 129490555, member: 1467482"] The city of Houston is not SEC country, that notion is laughable. Texas is and always will be the most popular college team in Texas. Even if Texas A&M has a stronghold of fans in Houston, if you seriously think the Aggie fans arent watching UT games themselves, you are delusional. We have Texas, which alone means that we command most of the college football viewership in the state of Texas and Houston. We also have TCU, Baylor, and Texas Tech, along with OU and OSU who probably command for Texas viewership than Houston, we have saturated the viewing market in that state. Houston is a complete afterthought down there, even with a program that has done pretty well for itself over the last few years, if you're going to pickup an afterthought you might as well do it for money reasons, and there is a reason Cincy was the first school picked up after Louisville in the Big East conference expansion. I agree they're not exciting, but no viable options are, its about markets and football. Cincy and BYU have the best NEW markets, and they're probably also the best football programs out there of all realistic candidates, they're a no brainer for the first offers if/when the day comes. [/QUOTE]

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