Virginia Tech's Babcock talks ACC channel, fan experience, football ticket sales

[Pudge]

I've lived in Ann Arbor and upstate NY include WNY, and I grew up in the northeast before that.

WNY (specifically Buffalo) is so much more like the northeast than it is the Midwest. I just can't ever see how this argument is made. People in these parts of NY act as brash as people in Philly or New York City. There are a huge number of Italians here and Catholics. This is probably one of the most Catholic cities I've ever lived in (NYC, Boston, etc.).

In the midwest, people are really polite, punctual. They have their flaws of course, which I don't need to go into.

Interesting. But I have a different perspective.

If your sitting near Albany, you feel the greater cultural expanse of the region: NYC creeping up the Hudson River and feeding the culture through the Berkshires. Certainly Saratoga is largely NY & NE money & influence. Boston from the turnpike west to Stockbridge (the reverse James Taylor) feels sophisticated, educational rich & a different living. (Albany itself is different - too big (130,000 jobs) a government town (READ sheep). This is the core of what that guy was addressing.

Now, is there large swaths of ethnic communities & northeastern mix in Buffalo & Rochester & Syracuse (and Cleveland & Pittsburgh): sure. But, I've felt less tied to my NE roots as I travel west past - say Amsterdam - and it culturally feels different. Philadelphia & Baltimore are like the further north more than WNY.

IMHO