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re: Dennis Dodd (CBS Sports) Tweets that final four for #14 are:
Posted on 8/30/11 at 12:51 pm to WoodlandsAg07
Posted on 8/30/11 at 12:51 pm to WoodlandsAg07
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I have lots of family in DC. I have never met a Maryland fan or alum and don't see a ton of Maryland stuff around. I've met a ton of VT alums and see VT stuff everywhere. I have no idea on the actual numbers or anything, just personal experience. VT is a much better cultural fit with fans and their support also, though I know that probably means very little in all this.
I grew up in DC and the rise of love for VT in the area is a new thing(post Vick era). To say its more of a cultural fit is nonsense b/c Northern VA which is the market and chunk of VT fans your talking about are not southern what so ever
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Posted on 8/30/11 at 2:54 pm to StraightCashHomey21
I lived in DC for five years. There is no college that will "deliver" the college football DC.
DC is a pro sports town. Redskins are BY FAR the most popular team in the area. Nothing else is even close. As for college football, VT may be the most popular team, but that isn't saying much b/c they are a tiny fraction of the market b/c there are people from all over the country in DC and no college within an hour of the city is a football powerhouse. Georgetown basketball is pretty popular as is Maryland basketball. Maryland football did get a bump that few years when they were decent, but it wasn't anything like they controlled the entire market.
People in the South often don't understand that in the mid-atlantic and northeast NFL just kills college football for popularity.
DC is a pro sports town. Redskins are BY FAR the most popular team in the area. Nothing else is even close. As for college football, VT may be the most popular team, but that isn't saying much b/c they are a tiny fraction of the market b/c there are people from all over the country in DC and no college within an hour of the city is a football powerhouse. Georgetown basketball is pretty popular as is Maryland basketball. Maryland football did get a bump that few years when they were decent, but it wasn't anything like they controlled the entire market.
People in the South often don't understand that in the mid-atlantic and northeast NFL just kills college football for popularity.
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