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[QUOTE="orangecuse, post: 357704, member: 668"]
Yeah, no doubt.  Columbia, SC is an armpit and they just pack their stadium...but the culture is trully different in the south, football is a higher religion.  ;)  Blacksburg, VA has no economic base either and just look at VPI's attendance.  You can really go on and on about a lot of these relatively small towns in the south that just pack their stadiums for football, Oxford MS, Athen, GA, etc. etc.
 
To really analyize fairly though, you really have to compare other private school's attendance with Syracuse's.  I don't think too many private schools out there are have very impressive football attendance...it's a horse of a different color.
 
The one thing Syracuse does have in its favor though, it's really the only school that plays major college football in the state (Buffalo only recently).  So the potential is there to capture more fans in Rochester, Albany, Buffalo, etc.  But NYS is a so sectional/regional, unlike so many other states.  For the most part, if you live in Rochester, Buffalo, Albany, etc., people their could really give a rats arse about SU.  :noidea:   The north country though has a huge Syracuse following that SU is their football team and actually have quite a bit of passion for the program.
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