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[QUOTE="Fjoinkay, post: 1477516, member: 604"]
Being a private school playing college football is very different than being a big state school unless you're talking about Notre Dame.  The percentage of people in CNY who go to SU or who have family who went to SU is much smaller than what you will find in the area around any state school.  It's not even close.   And like others have said, the total number of alums not just local but all over the world is much larger at state schools. 
 
Obviously, winning is the biggest step.  We already know that from basketball, but you can see it with Duke football and probably Stanford football as well.   Other than that, I like the idea of getting the young kids excited because if all of the kids at school want to go to games many of the parents are likely to make that happen.  I think the problem becomes that at a certain age many of those kids are told that they won't be able to afford to go to SU, and some of those kids then become attached to other college programs around the country, usually one of the powerhouse schools.   Even if that happens, I think you can still attract enough young fans to make the effort worthwhile.  Changing the minds of adults, however, who never went to SU, short of winning, is very difficult.
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