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[QUOTE="Fjoinkay, post: 282087, member: 604"]
Having grown up in B1G country my experience is that large state schools always have an advantage in fan support because the alumni base is much larger and because the alumni are largely local. If more people from CNY actually attended SU it would help in my opinion.
 
In the south football is a way of life moreso than in the midwest or the east in part because of the climate. It's much more enjoyable to tailgate in October weather in SEC locales that outside the dome. That doesn't stop people at PSU and Michigan or Notre Dame, but they do suffer much more to tailgate. And I must add that the people who tailgate at the Fine lot are perhaps the most noble group of any.
 
A buddy of mine who grew up in the midwest moved down to SEC country, and he is blown away with some of the tailgates.  He says you may see 80 or 90,000 people inside the stadium during the game, but outside during the game is another 100,000 or more tailgating and watching the game on video screens.  At some SEC schools every Satruday is a spectacle approaching the scale of something like the Indy 500.  SU really ought to do more to make tailgating easier.
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