I like Fresno State, but UNLV is the larger TV market and Las Vegas is growing like wildfire. Maybe pick up Fresno State and add San Jose State for another CA pair.
Depends on how you define market. The UNLV DMA is larger than Fresno but that ignores adjacent DMA’s. Fresno today spans Bakersfield to Modesto. That crosses 3 DMA’s: Bakersfield, Fresno, and the southern part of Sacramento/Stockton/Modesto.
A P5 Fresno can reasonably expand into Stockton and capture the entire San Joaquin Valley which is 4.2M people. The Big12 thinks they can ultimately expand into Sacramento which adds another 2.4M people. 6.6M people is larger than Missouri.
In the case of UNLV, nothing but Cactus is an adjacent market. Cal’s arrogance also comes into play here. Cal will say they own the Sacramento/Stockton/Modesto DMA. They don’t. Living in Sac, I can say Cal is a non-entity. The 49ers, who used to camp in Rocklin, would be the competition Fresno would have to overcome.
UNLV is the obvious pair to SDSU
Actually Fresno is the obvious pair but we get why the PAC wouldn’t add them. And yes for years Fresno High Schools competed in the Southern Section.
I like Fresno State, but UNLV is the larger TV market and Las Vegas is growing like wildfire. Maybe pick up Fresno State and add San Jose State for another CA pair.
Depends on how you define market. The UNLV DMA is larger than Fresno but that ignores adjacent DMA’s. Fresno today spans Bakersfield to Modesto. That crosses 3 DMA’s: Bakersfield, Fresno, and the southern part of Sacramento/Stockton/Modesto.
A P5 Fresno can reasonably expand into Stockton and capture the entire San Joaquin Valley which is 4.2M people. The Big12 thinks they can ultimately expand into Sacramento which adds another 2.4M people. 6.6M people is larger than Missouri.
In the case of UNLV, nothing but Cactus is an adjacent market. Cal’s arrogance also comes into play here. Cal will say they own the Sacramento/Stockton/Modesto DMA. They don’t. Living in Sac, I can say Cal is a non-entity. The 49ers, who used to camp in Rocklin, would be the competition Fresno would have to overcome.