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Message: [QUOTE="OttoMets, post: 4607932, member: 716"] Great post. It also seems that two factors conspired to dampen interest in high-school football in New York. [B]*This is a socio-economic point, not a political one.* [/B]First, as you note, the downturn of the two major football institutions in Upstate can't have helped. Second, this happened to coincide (or come on the tail end of) both BRAC and deindustrialization in the area. Who played high school football at a high level in the '80s and '90s? Where'd they go after that? I bet close study would show that the Rome Free Academy type programs got crushed by those shifts. Without that foundation of high school talent, coaching, and fan interest, it became that much more difficult to sustain high-level college footbal in CNY. [/QUOTE]