New Yorker on NY's College Team

[Upstate]

http://www.newyorker.com/online/blo...-over-new-york-rutgers-joins-the-big-ten.html

(didn't realize this was in OE's articles)

 

[Madbiker]

MSG isn't packed everytime SU plays there because 15,000 people drove down from Syracuse. While we get a decent travel turnout, most of that huge Orange crowd is due to SU alumns in the metro NYC area showing up to support their alma mater. How clueless are the people writing these articles.

 

[Scooch]

MSG isn't packed everytime SU plays there because 15,000 people drove down from Syracuse. While we get a decent travel turnout, most of that huge Orange crowd is due to SU alumns in the metro NYC area showing up to support their alma mater. How clueless are the people writing these articles.

He mentioned that, the part about alums in NYC attending. His point was that there aren't any Joe's from Queens suddenly donning a #44 jersey and showing up at MSG or MetLife. And he's dead accurate about that.

I mean just in CT I know a LOT of folks who are diehard Husky fans who have never even been to Storrs. Just the inherent difference between state schools and private schools. SU actually gets that kind of support in CNY but it doesn't translate downstate.

 

[Moontan]

MSG isn't packed everytime SU plays there because 15,000 people drove down from Syracuse. While we get a decent travel turnout, most of that huge Orange crowd is due to SU alumns in the metro NYC area showing up to support their alma mater.

The author didn't claim that they all drove from CNY.

Here's the quote:
"but it didn’t take me long to realize that most of those cheering at M.S.G. had in fact made that four-hour drive from upstate for the game—or to live, after graduation day at Syracuse."

The author probably doesn't realize that not only did lots of SU alums make a "four-hour drive from upstate to live" in NYC, but that that's where they're from.

How clueless are the people writing these articles.

The author must have attended one of the other "J schools" (Mizzou, anyone?), or was promoted to the New Yorker from the blogosphere.

 

[sutomcat]

The author didn't claim that they all drove from CNY.

Here's the quote:
"but it didn’t take me long to realize that most of those cheering at M.S.G. had in fact made that four-hour drive from upstate for the game—or to live, after graduation day at Syracuse."

The author probably doesn't realize that not only did lots of SU alums make a "four-hour drive from upstate to live" in NYC, but that that's where they're from.



The author must have attended one of the other "J schools" (Mizzou, anyone?), or was promoted to the New Yorker from the blogosphere.

It is even worse than you suspected.

Reeves Wiedeman attended (apparently did not graduate from) Boston College. He started off as a story researcher. Someone thought he was ready to write articles. Someone made a bad call.

 

[Crusty]

He is right on with these points:
There is perhaps some optical advantage for the conference in having the closest major college football team to the country’s largest media market in its fold, but there are not many who associate Rutgers with anything but New Jersey.

and

Big-time college athletic programs become money machines not because they are able to build fervent followings among graduates, but because they have fervent supporters who have no academic affiliation with the university. Oregon and Oklahoma and Alabama have devout non-alumni followings because they are in parts of the country with few—if any—major league teams. In New York, where every sport has more than one professional squad, there’s simply no airtime left for college ball.