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[QUOTE="Townie72, post: 457882, member: 780"]
Do you really understand the NY/NJ sports "ethic". You may.
 
My observation is that the area only supports big winners at the highest level. They view with disdain that isn't the best or great.
 
Growing up in NJ, I watched and sometime rooted for the Princeton basketball team. They were good even in the years after Bill Bradley graduated. But they got no credit in Mercer County NJ because they were not as good as UCLA or  North Carolina or Kentucky and they didn't play in the ACC or even the Missouri Valley Conference when the MVC was good. If I said, "Bill Bradley was good", they'd say, "He's not as good as Billy Cunningham." You could never win.
 
When Bradley got to the Knicks and the Knicks won big, they became Bradley fans. He was essentially the same player at Princeton ... but he wasn't seen as "big time" enough.
 
There's a reason that for most of the time Rutgers was in the Big East, they drew 20,000 in spite of being in the midst of millions and millions of potential fans.
 
If Rutgers doesn't win big ... and I mean really big, they'll be ignored. And the chances of that happening are slim. Their basketball has been in the Big East --- a great conference --- for 20+ years and they haven't had a winner yet. So that pretty much deflates the "They'll do better in a better conference" fantasy.
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