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Message: [QUOTE="DFW HOYA, post: 4361829, member: 597"] Three points: 1. The writer obscures the fact that the Northeast has a preponderance of private schools, all but two of which has been legislated out of major college football. The state-school football culture in the Northeast is decades behind what it is elsewhere, while the days of Princeton or Penn getting 40,000 for a game (as late as 1984) are long gone. 2. There is no college football presence in New York, and to a lesser extent, no consistent presence in Philadelphia or Washington. (Maryland may be near DC, but it is not of DC). The better athletes from this area aren't driven to football and even for those that are elite, no reason to stay in the area. 3. ESPN will never publicly admit it, but the ACC has strangled Eastern football. BC, Pitt, and Syracuse have withered in the past decade Watching BC football on the ACC Network is like seeing Washington State on the Pac-12 game of the week--no one cares. With no natural rivalries, fans drift away and do not come back. [/QUOTE]