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[QUOTE="cmr27, post: 3306, member: 215"]
You think so? It might depend on the timeline used. I'm looking over a 20-year timeline with the outsourcing/offshoring of the industrial economy having a disproportionate impact on CNY. Pretty sure CNY income and job creation has trailed national averages during that time. To tie this back to sports, the diehards will still come out -- and we definitely have fewer diehards than the land grant schools -- but it's the casual fan who stays home in the bad economy because. "Event games" are in the eye of the beholder, and the casual fans will perceive fewer of them when times are tight. Again, this isn't to discount everything else people have said. Just one factor/food for thought.

One other question is what the schools expects to gain locally by playing games in the Meadowlands. Gross obviously thinks he's increasing SU's prestige and appealing to NYC alums by playing in NYC. Somebody needs to put a dollar value on what's worse in terms of projected gains (or losses) in local attendance in coming years. The strategy has to translate into higher attendance in the Carrier Dome and/or a higher quality of football (the thinking being that one leads to the other). It's a bit of a waste, otherwise.

I do wonder how the AD's office defines success with the Meadowlands experiment and hope someone has laid out those parameters up front.
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