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[QUOTE="sufandu, post: 289014, member: 874"]
Part of the issue is the northeast is a pro-sport region and that's why they don't show allegiance to any college.  Many of the fans are only casual college football fans but live and die with their pro teams.  The southeast is rabid about college football and pro-football is secondary.  Look at all of the pro teams that exist with great support in the Northeast with the Giants, Jets, Eagles, Redskins, Patriots, Steelers, and Bills.  The Southeast has only the Panthers, Titans, and Falcons (the Florida teams don't count because most southerners don't consider Florida as part of the south despite it's obvious geography) and two of those are new teams when compared to the Northeastern teams I mentioned.  In Knoxville, where I live, as many people have been fans of the Colts as the Titans because of Peyton Manning playing for Tennessee. 
 
I don't know what's going to happen with reallignment and the ACC.  I hope that if we can start winning games we can get the alumni support for football, especially in NYC and DC, that we've had for basketball.  That is exactly why Gross has scheduled "home" games in NYC.  Maybe then we'll have enough pull to do what we have to do to survive regardless of how things shake out.
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