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Message: [QUOTE="Scooch, post: 412537, member: 628"] Penn State has always been in an odd spot. They're an eastern school who's fans and alumni are densely concentrated in the northeast corridor. Yet institutionally it is most similar to the large land-grant institutions of the Big Ten. In terms of athletic culture there's not a single northeastern school that is at all similar to Penn State. No one else draws 100K a game (or even half that), or has the kind of massive alumni/fan base that they do. And I get the sense that how fans/alums feel about their association the B1G is all about their age. I know some people who are younger alums (20s, early 30s) and all they really know is PSU in the B1G. They don't have much, if any, recollection of them playing eastern schools regularly. I think they'd be totally against the thought of going to the ACC. Older folks may be more nostalgic, I guess. [/QUOTE]