NYC has not been a market for college football in 50 years, or more. Think about it, its New York City and there is not one D-1A football program, not one. The entire state only has three ( syracuse, buffalo, army ) and New Jersey has just one ( Rutgers ) and Connecticut just one( UCONN ). For some reason or for a combination of many reasons, the tri state metro area is not conducive to college football. Hofstra tried every gimmick in the book and it helped little. -- FORDHAM RAMS FOOTBALL FORUM

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Subject: NYC has not been a market for college football in 50 years, or more. Think about it, its New York City and there is not one D-1A football program, not one. The entire state only has three ( syracuse, buffalo, army ) and New Jersey has just one ( Rutgers ) and Connecticut just one( UCONN ). For some reason or for a combination of many reasons, the tri state metro area is not conducive to college football. Hofstra tried every gimmick in the book and it helped little.

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Date Posted: 16:08:47 11/28/04 Sun
In reply to: colgate13 's message, "It's easy to think that and dismiss it that way, but further scrutiny shows that logic does not hold. Think about Cornell or Dartmouth: Ithaca and Hanover aren't the center of the universe and they can't draw a straw much less a crowd. There's more to it than a lack of options. If lack of options was all it took, Colgate should have 40,000 fans in the stand each weekend! Lehigh's doing it right and it's working. If you've never been to a game at Goodman, you are missing out. Go and take it all in. It's a fan friendly venue and an event. A lot of PL schools could learn from them." on 09:08:36 11/24/04 Wed

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New York is a pro sports town. I has exclusively been this way since WWII. There is too much competition for media space not to mention money. There was a Bowl game in the Meadowlands back in the '80's and it folded. Just not going to happen in the Big Apple. (NT) Ramadama 09:34:03 11/29/04 Mon

Sounds like you advocate just dropping our athletic program altogether. Is that correct? (NT) -- Rambacker, 20:47:59 11/29/04 Mon

That's idiotic. Of course that isn't correct. Fordham athletics is important to Fordham fans. It is never going to compete for major play in the NY area. (NT) -- Ramadama, 08:48:02 12/03/04 Fri

So if we built our basketball program into a Top 20 team and went to the Sweet 16, as several A-10 teams have done recently, we wouldn't get any "major play" in the NY area? (NT) -- Rambacker, 15:21:48 12/03/04 Fri