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Message: [QUOTE="NJCuse97, post: 4156943, member: 5058"] Money, I think I have read you and others in this thread mentioning state pride or loyalty. As older people (I hesitate to call myself adult no matter how old) I think that is tough to expect of a high schooler who barely understands pride in his own town. I didn’t know what it meant to me to be from NJ until I went to SU. I didn’t know or understand pride that people in WNY and CNY had in their region either until we were all mixed at SU. It’s tough to sell “hometown pride” because most kids have never faced a challenge or counterpoint to it. NYC may be the only place this isn’t true. NYC has been told for so long that it’s the greatest place on earth and in many arguments, with good reason, that those players seem to feel that entitlement and want to show others what that means by going to Alabama or ND rather than by beating them. That is the challenge with the high level talent in and around NYC. [/QUOTE]