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[QUOTE="WoadBlue, post: 5100182, member: 1145"]
Not facing reality is what always means you will always fail to deal with reality in the best way. Dave Gavitt understood that you could form  a basketball league of schools all located in northeastern states and cities and have it be Big Time in every sense: filled gyms, large TV audiences, lots of ranked teams, respect from national sports journalists of college athletics. But that was impossible for football and baseball.

For whatever sets of reasons, starting no later than the dawn off the 1960s, support for CFB by peoples living in the northeast began to wane. And the tide has never turned. For example, one of those guys who covers BC sports a lot wrote an article years ago about the divergences of Boston area media coverage of BD football in 1984, when Flutie won the Heisman, and 20007 when Matt Ryan was a Heisman candidate and BC played in the ACC Championship Game. In the early '80s, BC football was often on the front sports page of the Boston Globe and on Boston TV sports news even in mid-week. In 2007, BC got a slight fraction of the sports coverage it had gotten in 1984.

NYC media cares no more for Syracuse, but you do have Syracuse media interested in you.

That problem is quite harmful to any league with schools in the northeast when one of them is NOT PSU.
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