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[QUOTE="Townie72, post: 282172, member: 780"]
That's a very good point and absolutely true.
 
When I attended SU --- and even since then --- I have come to understand that SU football rides on the shoulders of the local sports fans in CNY. Not the alumni, who now live in Boston or NYC or Phila or DC. It's the townies that make the thing go. They buy the tickets and the beers and the parking and the SU spirit merchandise. It's remarkable. Some of the most vehement boosters on this forum never attended a class at SU and couldn't find Slocum Hall with a map on campus.
 
For these people, SU is their local pro team.
 
The generation that grew up rooting for Floyd Little is just about all dead or moved to the sunny South. I attended a game a few years ago at the Dome and was shocked at the number of people using walkers to get around.
 
So the appeal has to be to the non-aligned fan, as you suggest. And there's all sorts of pressure on this goup. Central NY is losing population, not gaining it. There isn't as much money in people's pockets as there once was, especially with the disappearance of all the factory jobs.
 
You are lookjng at the same picture Gross and Cantor see and its one of the reasons the marquis games are increasingly going to be played in the NYC area. They are going where the alumni are and where the money is.
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