How come the NorthEast and West Coast Dont Like College Football?

[Rekkapryde]

More concern with pro-teams coupled with the high school football obsession in the south/Midwest that leads to more interest in following college careers. Also, there is a more transient population on the east and west coasts, so you don't have the huge alumni communities around the area of their college, and lastly, a lot more of the schools on the east and west coast tend to be of higher academic caliber, thus they don't have the same recruiting reach to field "dynastic" teams year after year

This is single handedly killing us at GT. Too many of our alums are spread out all over the country, we have limited majors, no liberal arts curiculum or majors, a board of Regents who refuses to add curriculum/majors to make it more "athlete" friendly, and what jock wants to take calculus.

 

[Street Knowledge]

The westcoast has USC tho. There's no football equivalent to that on the east

 

[Listen]

Oh, also, College Hockey does well up here. Lots of the schools have top programs like UNH, Maine, UMASS, BU, BC, etc.

 

[dora_da_destroyer]

The Midwest is filled with pro teams and schools with high academic caliber and they still pull in huge crowds at Ohio State, Michigan, Penn State, Nebraska, Wisconsin, etc

I give you Michigan, kinda penn state. Them plus USC and Norte dame are the only top (like top 50) schools that at one point or another had teams that could be counted on to dominate for 5+ years at a time. And the Midwest has tons of pro-teams, true, but I also think they are more into high school football and have bigger alumni bases that are remain in the area which helps college. North east doesn't fukk with high school football like that (maybe jersey?), they care abt baseball, bball, and lacrosse lol.

The other issue on the west coast, at least nationally, is it is only USC that has the long term history of always being a dominant team (although they have ups and downs) cal, Stanford, ucla, az, etc have moments. Oregon has become a fixture recently as well, you lose interest in seeing the same teams win plus you lose years of fans when your team sucks for so long. I went to Stanford and we were garbage my whole time I was there plus like two years after, that's a lot of people to come thru the school and not become lifelong fans of the team, southern and Midwestern schools from the competitive conferences dont seem to have that as much.

 

[the next guy]

Try again

Yeah because its so hard to get into Ole Miss and Alabama

The Midwest is filled with pro teams and schools with high academic caliber and they still pull in huge crowds at Ohio State, Michigan, Penn State, Nebraska, Wisconsin, etc

Ohio State Any school that has 100k student undergrad pop has at LEAST 5k of bums from high school. Nebraska? Just as bad as any "state university" in the south... Of course you have Georgia Tech, Duke and the like but those are very few...

 

[tremonthustler1]

pro sports >>> high school >>> college. We like watching college football, but none of the good schools are here, most of em aren't even local (Columbia University is in the city and who wants to watch Ivy League Football?), and compared to other things to do in the city, let alone sports, it just doesn't drum up enough interest

 

[Spade]

More interest in the South and the teams are mostly filled with local or regional players. Lets be honest, the South is by far the most talented football area in the nation( props to Cali and Ohio, though). Texas and Florida alone are better than the other regions. There's a reason why 13 out of the 15 BCS champions come from teams in Southern states.

 

[THEANGEL&THEGAMBLER]

Maybe the northeastern cities are too built up for the universities to build large on campus stadiums like in the South and Midwest?

I remember guys at the old site talking about how NYC doesn't have too many highschool football programs because they don't have any space to build stadiums.

 

[mastermind]

because we can read, write, add, subtract, divide, and multiply.

 

[Mr swag]

Cuz we got pro teams


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[FreedS[ohh]lave]

pro sports >>> high school >>> college. We like watching college football, but none of the good schools are here, most of em aren't even local (Columbia University is in the city and who wants to watch Ivy League Football?), and compared to other things to do in the city, let alone sports, it just doesn't drum up enough interest

The 5 smallest markets for college football are all in the northeast with nyc being the lowest lol

 

[locoloco87]

atlanta has the hawks,braves,and falcons and it's still a georgia bulldog city

 

[JBoy]

More interest in the South and the teams are mostly filled with local or regional players. Lets be honest, the South is by far the most talented football area in the nation( props to Cali and Ohio, though). Texas and Florida alone are better than the other regions. There's a reason why 13 out of the 15 BCS champions come from teams in Southern states.

this, Northeast is at amateur football which is why they have the least interest in college football

 

[EducatedBrothaFromTheBank]

Cuz we got pro teams


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Carolina, Atlanta, Ohio, Michigan, Texas etc. all got sports teams dumbass

 

[Mr swag]

Carolina, Atlanta, Ohio, Michigan, Texas etc. all got sports teams dumbass

The cites do



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