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Message: [QUOTE="NKR1978, post: 699851, member: 186"] It depends on the crowd. You can walk up and down 3rd Ave in Murray Hill on any given Saturday and find bars filled with college alumni groups and I know MSU and Penn State have official bars on that strip. To that end, the only people I've come across in NYC that are passionate about college football are alumni of the various schools. College basketball has a lot more casual fans. The B1G with PSU and Michigan is much more prominent in NYC for football. Rutgers got a lot of media exposure in 2006, but 2006 was a long time ago. They'll definitely get the media's attention at least while the novelty is still fresh of the big boys coming to Rutgers Stadium. But if they don't win those games and are fighting with Indiana and Maryland for 5-7 place in their division, the media attention wont last. Alternatively, Syracuse's run to the Final Four along with the BET success dominated the back pages of the Post and News this spring. While Michigan, PSU and Notre Dame are the go to teams of the casual college football fan in NYC, the casual college basketball fan (as has been stated here before) gravitates to Duke, Carolina, Syracuse and UConn/St. John's. Unfortunately, the B1G will win with football (though hopefully Syracuse will continue to do games at MetLife to counter that media attention somewhat), but the ACC will absolutely win the city with basketball, and from my experience most casual sports fans in the city (without a real rooting interest) know more about college basketball than football. Rutgers was a smart move for the B1G, and I know I'm in the vast minority here, but wish Rutgers was joining us in the ACC because they are the closest thing we have to a football fan base that truly hates us and that could have developed nicely. [/QUOTE]

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