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[QUOTE="OrangeChris, post: 337090, member: 922"]
I love the "they're not a big flagship public/state school!" argument, as if we live in a part of the country where that has ever even mattered. Seven of the eight Ivies were established before a single SEC school even enrolled their first student. Education in the Northeast has been centered around private schools since before we were even recognized as a country. People need to realize that you can't simply take the lessons of big-time Southern football and apply it to other regions of the country (especially the [i]oldest[/i] region in the country) as if we don't have any sort of regional or cultural differences. Just because everybody in Georgia roots for UGA, it doesn't mean everybody in Connecticut is going to root for UConn or everybody in Massachusetts is going to root for UMass. Even if it did, I fail to see how that helps an argument that people in New York would root for UConn.
 
As a somewhat unrelated point, this whole "plant a flag in a region and the people will come!" fallacy is one of the biggest things wrong with the Big East right now, as they go about their wrong-headed pursuit of collecting "markets."
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