College football and NY market

[cuseguy]

http://thequad.blogs.nytimes.com/20...-college-football-fans-and-realignment-chaos/

 

[Townie72]

http://thequad.blogs.nytimes.com/20...-college-football-fans-and-realignment-chaos/

Bad methodology. Search traffic does not show number of fans.

 

[Scooch]

We thoroughly debunked that article a year ago.

The methodology is absolute crap. Just trust me on that.

 

[Cuseman78]

Failing to see your point here. The NYC market DOES NOT CARE about CFB. If it did, why did a small private school in upstate NY get an ACC invite over the 2 schools much closer to the City? This was about a lot of things, but its never been about the NYC market.

BRAND, BRAND, BRAND

 

[Scooch]

Failing to see your point here. The NYC market DOES NOT CARE about CFB. If it did, why did a small private school in upstate NY get an ACC invite over the 2 schools much closer to the City? This was about a lot of things, but its never been about the NYC market.

BRAND, BRAND, BRAND

Point of clarification, the NYC market has a ton of people who watch college football. Literally more people than any other market. But it also has more people who don't watch college football than any other market. It's just big, you know.

So people care, just not a majority.

 

[Cuseman78]

Point of clarification, the NYC market has a ton of people who watch college football. Literally more people than any other market. But it also has more people who don't watch college football than any other market. It's just big, you know.

So people care, just not a majority.

And those people that do care are spread with a multitude of "favorite" teams. Lots of B1G, SEC, ACC, Big East alums in this City. This was never an exclusively Big East city.

 

[Upstate]

There are more Buffalo fans than alabama fans in NYC? And Oregon? that'd be the day.

 

[Millhouse]

Who here ever searches "college football"?

terribly proxy

he's a good statistician but that's a crazy leap.

from the comments to the article. gtech with way more fans that georgia? not likely

 

[Scooch]

Who here ever searches "college football"?

terribly proxy

he's a good statistician but that's a crazy leap.

from the comments to the article. gtech with way more fans that georgia? not likely

The funniest thing is that there are at least two major, accessible polls (ESPN Sports Poll, Harris Poll) that directly do what Nate was trying to approximate: that being determine the most-popular teams in each region.
Why he tortured data like that is beyond comprehension.

 

[Scooch]

Per that crapfest from Nate: "But which teams do they align themselves with? This question is not easy to answer"


Actually, it is. Not by region, but that's obtainable:

http://espnmediazone.com/us/press-releases/2012/09/csusept-11/#b