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Message: [QUOTE="Jerseynole8, post: 2668046, member: 5898"] No offense but to many, basketball is something you do in between football seasons. College baseball is actually a bigger deal than basketball in the deep south outside of Tobacco Road (SC, AL, LA, MS, TX). Again, being from the north but having briefly lived in the south I know what they think of yankee schools when it comes to football. And that even includes Ohio State and Michigan. I also lived in the Chicago-land area for two years and that was more like the NY tri-state area than the panhandle. Again, no offense but Syracuse’s “impact on CFB” of which you speak occurred literally over a half a century ago. While I can appreciate Syracuse’s history, I can also appreciate Army’s and Yale’s. And Roger Staubach won the Heisman and played for the NC at Navy so I can appreciate their history too. Point being, it was a different era. “Power 5” CFB in the New England area just isn’t a big deal. It’s predominantly a pro sports area that values indoor sports like hockey and basketball whereas college football is a way of life down south. They don’t call it “church on Saturday” for nothing. Now, there’s lots of FCS, DII and DIII football in the northeast if you’re into that. My brother played football at Southern Connecticut, and many former teammates and students played up that way so I know that scene. I mean there are hundreds of colleges heavily concentrated in the New England-Pennsylvania area that need to field teams. But major college football just isn't as big a deal in NJ, NY, New England, etc as it is in the south and Texas. Even if RU ever got good...I'm talking like Wisconsin-level good, NYC sports talk radio would still be talking about the Yankees bullpen and the Mets journeymen September call-ups on August 28th instead of the RU football season starting in 4 days. It is what it is. [/QUOTE]

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