"...Then even throw in football All-Americans & Academic All-Americans, and never mind we get "penalized" 50% for Stadium Capacity because we share it with an NFL team! All that goes into their "Football" score"
LOL. Yep, maybe the FACT that you get about 27,000 per game and 1/2 of them leave by halftime AND the fact that you have to "rent" a stadium (that happens to be about the size of BYUs stadium) plays into it as well. Have no idea what the other facilities look like.
Do they really want to argue All-Americans, Heisman, etc? I would guarantee that if SDSU had near enuf fan interest and they were putting together data, history, tradition (Yep, past success is spelled out by the BIG12 as a big factor) they would factor in the Marshall Faulk and Darnay Scott years (same years as Ty). If NOT they would be totally stupid, because they don't have much else to brag about on the FB side.
They also overplay the population thing. No one in SD or OC or LA care about SDSU.
BYU market isn't only SLC, throw the whole state of Utah in there as well as the outlying states, etc.