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It's a great point, but using that argument, where does that leave Utah?

30th market, size wise, isolated with no real national following. From a numbers point of view, they bring nothing to the Conference and based upon what some are saying in Dallas, would bring very little to the Big 12 in terms of TV revenue.

The reality is SMU has much greater potential than Utah or many other schools. I wouldn't get too locked in on the Fort Worth columnist's view that SMU has a small part of the market.

SMU has been recruiting well lately in the Metroplex and their crowd size and local interest is starting to grow somewhat.

In the past, when in the right setting, they not only succeeded, they excelled. Of course, they cheated, but so did the entire SW Conference in that era.

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