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re: Dennis Dodd (CBS Sports) Tweets that final four for #14 are:
Posted on 8/30/11 at 2:54 pm to StraightCashHomey21
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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Posted on 8/30/11 at 3:07 pm to GumBro Jackson
GumBro Jackson's assessment of the DC market is pretty accurate.
As to the statement that Va Tech can sell out FedEx, I'm not sure you can draw conclusions based on one game every few years against USC or Boise. They doubtless have many fans in the DC area and they gobble up the available seats at Maryland if the Terps are having a bad year, but I doubt Va Tech or Maryland could deliver DC as a market for the SEC.
As to the statement that Va Tech can sell out FedEx, I'm not sure you can draw conclusions based on one game every few years against USC or Boise. They doubtless have many fans in the DC area and they gobble up the available seats at Maryland if the Terps are having a bad year, but I doubt Va Tech or Maryland could deliver DC as a market for the SEC.
Posted on 8/30/11 at 4:15 pm to GumBro Jackson
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DC is a pro sports town. Redskins are BY FAR the most popular team in the area. Nothing else is even close
Thats for sure and it still has so many people from other areas with other pro and college loyalties.
VT does not own that market at all, hell 3 or 4 of their games were not on local tv in the DC area. Yet every WVU game was on ESPN or MASN so go figure. Penn State, WVU also have large numbers in the area and you can't forget the countless amounts of SEC fans in there. People in DC watch SEC football regardless.
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