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Message: [QUOTE="UConnNick, post: 3195313, member: 1526"] You have no idea what you're talking about. The Ivy League as presently comprised includes some of the greatest power schools in college football history. Those schools have won or shared close to 70 national championships. Harvard, Dartmouth, Brown and Yale were part of that history. When the Ivy League was formally organized in 1956, the schools decided to de-emphasize football, quit awarding athletic scholarships, and decided not to allow any teams to play in bowl games. That decision, combined with the decline in football at the service academies, caused a gradual decline in CFB interest in the northeastern US. All that was left were Syracuse, Rutgers, BS College and Penn State. Syracuse, and later Penn State emerged as the only two national powers among the group. There weren't enough teams, and no conference affiliations to sustain that interest. The original Big East had revived some of that interest, but sadly it fell apart. BS College move to a conference with no local rivals didn't help. They became an outlier with nothing in common with their conference mates. But during the brief time UConn played in the BE, interest in NE college football was revived. Sellout crowds at Rentschler were the norm. It would have all come back again to the 1940's if the Big East didn't fall apart. [/QUOTE]