Well, let's look at it this way. These cities have lost teams are about to: St. Louis Oakland San Diego. These cities/teams have frequent rumbling about moving: Buffalo Jacksonville Then there are a handful of cities that are small but seem more or less stable: New Orleans Cincinnati Kansas City (I'm leaving out Green Bay, obviously. That's a special case.) Now Los Angeles has lost two teams in recent memory and the Rams are already playing to half-full stadiums. So it's a big question whether one team can sustain itself there in the long term, much less moving in a second team. If LA is just a pit stop for the Chargers, where do they go? And generally speaking where are these teams going to move. So basically you have five teams that don't have a stable homes: Bills, Rams, Chargers, Raiders, Jags. Then a few in places that you wouldn't put them but that are OK for now. Meanwhile, if those teams did move, where would they go that are clear major league markets? Maybe Orlando. But for the most part, you keep hearing about expansion/relocation outside the United States: Toronto, London, Mexico City. Of the expansion cities MLS is talking about, I would say only Detroit, Tampa and Miami are clear major league cities, and Tampa and Miami are not really strong sports towns, ahnd MLS has contracted there already. The rest are in the sort of borderline places that the NFL is having trouble in or that are just outside the major league bubble.
No longer. New ownership (not named Trump) with a commitment to stay. ". . . the New York-based businessman has said this many times, including to the Buffalo News: If he purchased the Buffalo Bills, he wouldn’t be running for president." http://buffalonews.com/2016/11/05/trump-bought-buffalo-bills-oral-history-alternate-reality/
The Jags aren't unstable The Bills aren't unstable The Rams found a new home already The Chargers have announced that they found a new home The Raiders have announced that they found a new home.
And the Raiders have never been unstable in Oakland, and they weren't unstable in Los Angeles. The moves were all down to ownership looking for even more money.
Her teacher should have let them watch The Ten Commandments. "I'll give you my staff when you take it from my cold, dead hands, you damn dirty Pharaoh, God damn you, God damn you all to hell!!" - Cecil 19:56 Anyone wanting to understand the events of the Bible in a historical context should watch this
They definitely would not be admitted, but not for the reason you cite. All Pac-12 schools including the land grant institutions in the conference are rated in the top tier - R1/Doctoral Universities with Highest Research Activity - by the agency charged with assessing such things, the Carnegie Foundation. There aren't a lot of FCS-level, football-playing R1 schools left in the West that aren't already in the Pac-12. OSU and WSU are in locations too isolated, too rural, too devoid of television-eyes, and possessed of too few alumni to make what the cut would be today. You'd have OU and UW as travel partners (for away games in sports with multiple games in a week) rather than OU/OSU and UW/WSU. Colorado State and UNM are R1, as are many of the Texas schools.
What is this talk of the rams playing to a half empty stadium? They averaged 83k which is higher than the capacity of their under construction stadium. If they don't price too outrageously in inglewood they'll sell out every game.
Most of the complaints I've seen is related to butts in seats and pictures that have circulated of the last few games of the season where the seats were clearly visible throught the stadium. Obviously the team sucked, but LA hasn't had an NFL team for 20 years and is the NFL's second largest market. The expectation was that the LA market was so hungry for live NFL that they'd sellout every game regardless of how well the team played. That ended up not being the case.
They also play in Los Angeles in a stadium without a real parking lot. We're not used to taking trains to sporting events.
Back in 2011 or 2012 - I forget, the Media Mixer for MLS Cup was downtown a few blocks from LA Live. Another photographer and I got the shuttle to the airport, then the shuttle from the airport out to the subway. We didn't want to drink and drive and Uber hadn't really caught on, so we figured out how to get their by train. Most of the locals we talked to couldn't believe we'd taken the subway. One didn't even know LA had a subway system.
I'm skeptical that even the Chargers will ultimately have issues filling the stadium. LA can say they don't want them all they want, but ultimately, they only need to convince about a half of a percent of the LA metro area to come to a game 8 weeks a year. And thats not accounting for any traveling fans.
When we were in the Big12/8, we were notoriously edged in a friendly part of the world. Think out-of-state wealthy Californians and East coasters verse Nebraska/Kansas/Iowans, etc...
I attended three out of Texas' Big 12 Championship Game appearances: 1996 vs. Nebraska in St. Louis, 2001 vs. CU in Irving, and 2005 vs. CU in Houston. By far, the worst was the 2001 game. The CU fans in the house were assholes from the opening kickoff until after the final gun and were starting fights in the parking lot after the game. This was in marked contrast to the NU fans who were pretty darn nice to us, even though our 7-4 team had just crushed their national championship hopes. And after what happened in 2001, watching Texas bludgeon CU 70-3 in 2005 was especially satisfying. Buff fans are the worst. But what else do you expect from a school whose student body is made up partially of the idiot fourth children of the world's elite?
Not sure where you're going with this, if you think Texas students aren't children of the elite you're kidding yourself. It's good you never played Duke! I go to games in Boulder, admittedly the traveling crowd might be more hardcore.