(01-15-2020, 10:17 PM)pirkster Wrote: The Jacksonville market is extremely small compared to other markets.  We've overachieved to get to where we are.  Some, it seems, just aren't willing to see things for how they truly are.

If it weren't for Khan, an owner going strictly by the numbers likely would have packed up and moved the team by now.

It takes both.  It takes winning AND it takes a large enough fanbase to sustain comfortably in times when the team isn't winning.

To get this market where it needs to be, there must be population and job growth that outpaces comparable cities.  Without a healthy school system, I don't see how that happens in Jax.  It's just not competitive enough to pull in the employers to put the city where it needs to be to more comfortably support our NFL franchise.

Otherwise, the club is going to continue to look at ways to more comfortably keep the team here - such as adding a second game to London.  It may hurt some folks pride, but the city is as marginal an NFL city today as it was when we were narrowly awarded the franchise.  There must be new, sustainable growth in the market and improved schools to support it.

There is some nuance here. Jax is a small market by NFL standards but it is comparable to other NFL small markets. It's the 40th largest MSA in the country, ahead of New Orleans and Buffalo and a bit behind Milwaukee (Green Bay), Nashville, Indianapolis, etc. What Khan wants is to get the Jacksonville revenue model to a point where there's never any danger of the team *having* to move due to being non-competitive financially. Implicit in some of what Lamping has been saying is that the other small market teams that fall into the same category *aren't* necessarily financially stable and so could be at risk for moving due to factors not having to do directly with their fan-base.

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