I say, just come up with a new term to describe the East Coast down to Virginia. The Atlantic Coast works but there is nothing wrong with wanting a regional footprint including the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic. All fairly densely populated until you get south of Virginia Beach. The SEC only goes to South Carolina so lets annex the Virginias.They are just trying to get “northeast” football chat going so they broadened the scope. Pretty sure that they know where Virginia is.
They tried have a New England Football chat and unsurprisingly it was as dead as college football in most of New England.
You got what 20 FBS programs in that footprint split up between 7 conferences plus Indie. Everyone except SEC, MWC, PAC.
People claim New England doesn't care about big-time college football but the Nor'Mid-East sure does.