(12-06-2017 05:27 PM)Green Menace Wrote:  

(12-06-2017 02:08 PM)Fanof49ASU Wrote:  

(12-06-2017 12:07 PM)chiefsfan Wrote:  

(12-06-2017 10:55 AM)AppManDG Wrote:  

(12-06-2017 01:18 AM)Fanof49ASU Wrote:  Being much more regional conference won’t magically fix our attendance. It will bump it some, but I doubt more than 10%. The average fan might gain one game in a drivable distance.

MapQuest mileage from Boone
Troy 8 hrs vs Charlotte 2 hrs
A State 10 hrs vs Marshall 5 hrs
USA 10 hrs vs MTSU 6 hrs
ULM 12 hrs vs ODU 6 hrs
Louisiana 14 hrs vs WKU 6 1/2 hrs
Texas State 19 hrs vs UAB 7 hrs
Coastal 5 hrs
Ga St 5 hrs
Ga So 6 hrs

All schools within a 7 hour drive. Yea, that would help attendance.

I'm not sure it would really. How many of those schools have large traveling fan bases to begin with?

Maybe in a good year a decent group makes the trip, but at 7 hours you're still knocking out a lot of fans. There are a few that have the money and time to travel long distances for away games, but most, unless its a day trip, save their travel for one game a year. (In most SBC cases, the bowl)

I’m not seeing it either. Like I said, I’ll give you one short trip, but 5-7 hrs is still hard on a lot of fans. The newness wears off quickly.

Wait a minute! On another thread, discussing Troy bringing more fans to the NO Bowl by a troy fan, I mentioned it was an 8+ hour drive from Denton to New Orleans. Troy fan said that was just an excuse(not to have as many UNT fans as Troy fans).

Now a 5-7 trip in this thread is hard on SBC fans talking about conference realignment???

He was talking about week in, week out normal conference games. Everyone makes exceptions for a big out of conference(P5) game or bowl game.