The Home Teams of College Sports in New York City (Syracuse: transplants, schools)

[Chicago_Illini_26]

Hey, New Yorkers. I know this topic is often talked about, and I also know that New York City doesn't exactly embrace college sports like it does pro sports. However, there has to be a team with the most fans; there just has to be. I had an EXTREMELY inaccurate way of trying to figure this out:
I first looked at Wikipedia's page on the NYC Metropolitan Area (New York metropolitan area - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia). The page showed the population components (and which states they were in) of the Area.
I then overlapped that map with Common Census' map of college football loyalties:
http://www.commoncensus.org/maps/ncaaf_640.gif
I then (again, I know, inaccurately) tried to assign some numbers to each team's following. Here's what my horrible method came up with:

Rutgers - 17%
Notre Dame - 15%
Syracuse - 14%
Penn State - 8%
UConn - 5%
Boston College - 3%
Army/Other Local Schools - 12%
Other - 36%

I know these are really inaccurate, but I'm really interested in who has the most fans in NYC. So, if anyone would take the time to try to guess on some percentages or give some feedback, it would be much appreciated. Thanks!

[Chicago_Illini_26]

[scottykick]

Well it really depends on if your talking basketball or football, because I think alot of New Yorkers tend to like two seperate school teams for both, unless they root for the school they went too.

Even NFL football here tends to have a lot of fans for non-NY teams, could be that the two local teams actually play in New Jersey, it could also be that NYC has a huge amount of transplants.

In my family there is 1 Cowboys fan, 1 Steelers fan, 1 Rams fan, 2 Jets fans and 5 Giants fans, and all were born & raised in NY.

As for NCAA my opinion is that most locals for ncaa basketball will follow

1) St. Johns
2) Syracuse
3) Seton Hall
4) Duke
5) UNC

and football

1) Notre Dame
2) Rutgers
3) USC
4) Miami Hurricanes
5) Florida Gators

Just my opinions based on my observations.

[D_R160]

i am more of a uconn for basketball and ND for football. ND for football, because all their games were/is nationally telecast. I am a uconn basketball fan because they were good when i was growing up.

[Walter Greenspan]

I'm holding out for Yeshiva vs Notre Dame in football at Yankee Stadium on a Thursday night.

[samyn on the green]

College Sports are relatively unpopular here among the natives. There are few responses to your thread because nobody cares. A college game here only will draw a small crowd of the three F's; family, friends and freebies. Activities tend to be more grassroots. At the low end or the class spectrum people are into playing sports like handball. The upper class may attend a pro game. For American style couch potato sport the professional leagues dominate the denizens of the couch.

[jacktravern]

Originally Posted by samyn on the green

College Sports are relatively unpopular here among the natives. There are few responses to your thread because nobody cares. A college game here only will draw a small crowd of the three F's; family, friends and freebies. .

HAHAHAH funny but true. Sorry, but way tooo many pro options in NYC to care deeply for college sports.

[latikeriii]

There are around 10,000 Texas Longhorn alumni in the area so don't count out the southern schools.

[PsychDoc]

NY natives could care less about college sports.

The good news is that in Manhattan there are hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of transplants. All the major D1 schools have active alumni associations with an associated bar to watch the games on Saturday. I'm an Oklahoma alum and we always easily had 50+ people at our bar on Saturdays for the game.

[PsychDoc]

Syracuse has a ton of alum in NYC as does Rutgers and Notre Dame. I would always see people everywhere wearing Texas gear too. A lot of Florida alums live in the city as well. Lots of Michigan alums too.