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[QUOTE="dinosaurbbq, post: 1165689, member: 1333"]
Something strikes me as funny.  I've seen this term "NE football" or "Northeast Football" thrown around on here and talked about on occasion by HCSS and fans of SU.  Its funny to me to hear someone argue that NE football is a lot less relevant than it used to be, because NE football has never to my knowledge been a term or concept recognized or used or thought about by anyone else in the country besides SU fans.  To be sure, there are and were good or great teams that happened to be in the Northeast, like Syracuse, BC from time to time, Penn State and maybe Pitt.  However, the concept that there was a Northeast football as in conference, style of play or any other grouping is foreign I think to the rest of the country.

To the extent it is used to mean the crux of the old independents, that isn't really accurate, as that included Miami, Florida State, Notre Dame, Virginia Tech, WVU and I think maybe South Carolina.

To the extent its meant to be strong defense and a strong running game and big boys who outmuscle you, I think the rest of the country identifies that with the B1G and/or Midwest football, not NE football.

I've lived outside the northeast for the last 25 years in various parts of the country and have just never heard of anyone else thinking of NE football as a concept in any way.  There really aren't enough teams in the NE to have ever been a uniformity concept.
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