FB: American Southwest Conference

[kickhoe]

We're attending all of the festivities as well.....Cowpoke Posse, Cowboy Band Foundation meeting, Alumni Luncheon, game, etc.

Looking forward to the fun!!!!

[minni]

Sorry I will not be in attendence.  The Longhorns are coming to Lubbock!!!

[Bill McCabe]

The Baylor-A&M game is at 6:00 in Waco.  Time enough for fans to make both games.  That's what we're planning to do.  I hope there is a big crowd.

[Bill McCabe]

minni, you're not a Longhorn are you? 

[minni]

NO NO!!!!  Thats against my religion!!

[Bill McCabe]

karma point for that!!!

[roocru]

Bill,

Mrs. Roocru got he B.S. from UT and her M.S. and Ph.D. from A&M.  How would you rate that allegiance?   

[CruGuy]

Hey Ralph, I don't mean to demean your or disrespect you in any way, I know that you are a very knowledgeable man, and someone who acts very maturely and rationally on this board. However, I was wondering where you were getting the figure of 355,000 people in the Belton metro area. Belton has about 20,000 and I think Temple has about 60,000. If you add Killeen (20 miles away) which is a large population of migrants and non-native texans (thus less interest in football, and certainly less interest in small local teams) you have another 100,000 people. That is still well short of 355,000. If you go any further north or south on thirty five, or east for that matter, you enter into the local regions of large D-1 schools that generate more money, energy, enthusiasm, and provide for greater entertainment on and off the feild.

1 interesting note for you DSC, well, actually 2
The TLU game in Belton out drew the HSU game &
UMHB's avg. away attendance is currently 3115 (although the road trip to Marshall will cause it to further dip...there would need to be 2538 people show up for the UMHB vs ETBU to keep UMHB's away avg. at 3000 for the season and I don't see that happening)

[minni]

wow someone has entirely to much time on their hands!!

[CruGuy]

or the ability to add, divide and subtract numbers with four digits

[Ralph Turner]

Hello Crukid!  Thanks for the question.  The numbers I am using are those of the United States Census.  Please click on the "Abilene Metropolitan" in that post and you should get the pdf file at the US Census.  Please scroll down to find Killeen-Temple-Fort Hood.  That statistical area is what the Belton Chamber of Commerce uses when it is trying attract business, jobs, government funding, etc.  I thought that that was a creditable number for the comparisons.   (Abilene has Dyess AFB.)

[Bill McCabe]

roocru, happy at Thanksgiving?

[CruGuy]

Well that was certainly an interesting site. It looks like Enron and the Belton Chamber of Commerce are using the same auditors. I'm sure that they are including Copperas Cove and some of the outlying Austin suburbs which are closer to UT than UMHB, and certainly like I noted before many of those people are military and have neither the time nor the interest to support D-3 football.

According to these numbers, Belton is in a larger metropolitan area than are Lubbock, Waco, College Station, Stillwater OK, Lincoln NE, Gainesville FL, Athens GA, Auburn Al, Tuscaloosa AL, South Bend IN, Ann Arbor MI, etc... That would really make one ponder proposed population attendence.

[Ralph Turner]

Crukid, here is the definition of those Metropolitian Areas.

Having lived in both of those Metropolitan Areas, I agree with their assessment.

[Toby Taff]

Crukid,

If you must post numbers, don't forget Harker heights with 30,000+, Copperas Cove with 28,000+, Nolanville with 2,000-3,000, add to that the population living on Ft Hood that don't count in Killeen or Cove and you get much larger number.