[NU Sports] Uh Oh! BCS Poll Warnings

[Roy Lamberton]

I know the East Coast is eroding in population, but those who make media calls
still live there, and many decisions are made based on old ideas.

TV is also about markets, not state population - While Atlanta is growing, and
Chicago and LA are still #2 & #3, or vice versa, the Boston, NY, Philly,
Baltimore, DC corridor is one whopping big market that right now has few Big 10
games broadcast.  That's my point.

rsl

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: nwu-sports-bounces at tssi.com [mailto:nwu-sports-bounces at tssi.com] On
> Behalf Of Jonathan Michael Hawkins
> Sent: Tuesday, October 16, 2007 11:49 AM
> To: nwu-sports at romaine.tssi.com
> Subject: Re: [NU Sports] Uh Oh! BCS Poll Warnings
> 
> On 10/16/07, Roy Lamberton <rstetson at capps-assoc.com> wrote:
> >
> > Since the majority of people live on the East Coast,
> 
> 
> While I'm not going to quibble with Coach Roy's overall point, his
> assertion
> about the "majority of people" is just patently untrue.
> 
> Even using the most liberal estimates I could find (using projected 2006
> U.S.
> Census statistics), only 111 million people live on the East Coast.  To put
> it another way, only 1/3, not over 1/2, of the population (appx. 300
> million
> as of 2006) lives in Florida, Georgia, North Carolina, South Carolina,
> Virginia, West Virginia, Maryland, D.C., Rhode Island, Pennsylvania,
> Delaware, New Jersey, New York, Connecticut, Massachusetts, Vermont, New
> Hampshire, and Maine.
> 
> http://www.census.gov/popest/states/NST-ann-est.html
> <http://www.census.gov/popest/states/NST-ann-est.html>
> 
> When you realize that usually "East Coast" means "if the East Coast stopped
> at Northern Virginia", then the population drops to about 71 million, or
> about as many as live in the Midwest - 66 million.  (knocking out Florida,
> Georgia, North Carolina, and South Carolina).
> 
> You can verify this visually using a cartogram skewed by state for
> population.  Equal area on this map equals equal population:
> 
> http://www-personal.umich.edu/~mejn/election/statecartcollegelarge.png
> <http://www-personal.umich.edu/~mejn/election/statecartcollegelarge.png>
> 
> Jon
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