[Stardust]

Most places are small market because they only consider about 8-10 cities as major markets (NY, LA, Chi-town, Miami, Houston, Philly, Phoenix, San Antonio, Dallas, etc...)

True story about Cincy. It is sad too. A team from Salt Lake City can support a winning franchise, why can't a city like Louisville? LEXINGTON has almost 100,000 more citizens than SLC! Louisville has 400,000 more people!

It just blows my mind.

Because SLC has nothing else around. Cincinnati is a college sports area for Basketball. This area is diehard and diverse with fans solidly behind OSU, IU, UK, U of L, UC, XU. Those fans are committed and their dollars go to their college teams. There is nothing else in SLC, NOTHING.