Mark Blaudschun/Boston Globe: football/basketball split happens sooner rather than later

[upstater]

I laugh everytime I read this. NYC does not care about eastern college football, and they care even less about Rutgers. Rutgers can't deliver **** to the ACC.

Yeah, but, BCU couldn't deliver Boston.

 

[upstater]

The only factual information I have seen on that market shows Rutgers dominating that market for viewers in relation anyone else. While they dont rule NYC, they have a big head start. Greater New York is in large part NJ.

Link please??!

 

[upstater]

Exactly. I was put in my place on this issue by a few Rutgers fans about a year ago. They have a strong NJ base of fans/casual viewers that back them when they win. I think they may get the benefit of the doubt at some point because the B10 or ACC might think that people will tune in if Rutgers starts playing the big name programs. While that would be presumptuous, they might believe it.

Those ratings are MINISCULE compared to Saturday afternoon ratings. It's one of those "Rodeo is very popular in Boston" kind of deals. I mean, they set records for ESPN2 on a Friday night. And?

 

[Hoophound]

http://thequad.blogs.nytimes.com/20...-college-football-fans-and-realignment-chaos/

This is one survey with some good discussion. Regardless, there is no way anyone can convince me that the alumni of some other university will trump Rutgers in the New York market. NJ has 8 or 9 million people in it. Many of them are probably fans of the U of NJ aka Rutgers. Bergen County alone has close to 1,000,000 residents right across the river from NYC. How can alumni of Penn St. possibly compete with that?

 

[The Funster]

And you would think that someone would have the desire to try and mine the NY market; that someone might think, "Man, if we can ever capture and fire up the NY market our conference would be on Easy Street."

 

[Adios]

http://thequad.blogs.nytimes.com/20...-college-football-fans-and-realignment-chaos/

This is one survey with some good discussion. Regardless, there is no way anyone can convince me that the alumni of some other university will trump Rutgers in the New York market. NJ has 8 or 9 million people in it. Many of them are probably fans of the U of NJ aka Rutgers. Bergen County alone has close to 1,000,000 residents right across the river from NYC. How can alumni of Penn St. possibly compete with that?

We need to get Rage Against The Machine to make a song called "The Battle of New York"...

Here's a very interesting link. This project can use some more work.
http://www.commoncensus.org/sports_hotspot.php?sport=5

 

[mattp]

the stat is that 4 of the 5 highest rated ESPN games in the NYC area had rutgers, and it is a little misleading. first off, the biggest games aren't on ESPN, so right there the stat can be a little misleading b/c it's kind of like being the tallest midget. secondly many of the games in question had wide reaching implications for the whole Big East. every big east fan watched that Louisville/Rutgers game (i believe it was before the NFL even had thurs games), i certainly did and that doesn't make me a fan of rutgers.

i also saw a stat that a NYTimes poll estimated that 20% of NYC dwellers that considered themselves college football fans claimed Rutgers as their favorite team. that was the highest of any team, but for anyone to ever say that a 20% share of anything is dominance is flat out idiotic, especially considering how fickle New Yorkers are. RU was probably the hipster team of choice the day the poll was taken