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[QUOTE="cliftonparksufan, post: 5322090, member: 9"]
I agree, especially what you say about the B1G and the SEC.  I think those school's fans are still heavily "invested" in their programs.  I'd have a hard time believing in Alabama or Mississippi, Ohio and even in Michigan, depending on how the Lions seasons ends up, that they are never not going to be big college fans of State U. that regularly sell out 80, 90, 100,000 seat stadiums.  Pro sports will always take 2nd fiddle.

Go live or work in those states.  In Michigan, many people are alums of UM and MSU.  In PA, especially western PA, they are likely to be PSU or Pitt alums.  Ohio is a no brainer.  I've never lived or worked down south, but you know it's a religion.

These people don't care about pro sports, unless their local team goes on a hot streak.  NY is a fractured state.  We have no big State U to root for.  It's Syracuse or Bust and lately it's been bust.  And even if Cuse was top ten in football and basketball, the average downstate Joe isn't coming up to Syracuse to watch a game, unless he's an alum and then it might be once a year at the very most.

Syracuse will always be at a huge disadvantage.   Smaller, private school.  Less alums.  Less public funding. The President of the US and the Governor of NYS both went here and the school did nothing to capitalize on that.
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