[NU Sports] Ryan Field fans ... (fwd)

[Clark Zahn]

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From: Mike Nolan <nolan at romaine.tssi.com>
Sent: Nov 6, 2005 8:27 PM
To: nwu-sports at romaine.tssi.com
Subject: Re: [NU Sports] Ryan Field fans ... (fwd)


As I live in a college football town myself, I am very familiar with 
the extent to which the football team can dominate the local social scene,
even among non-alums.  (In Nebraska's case, it dominates the whole state 
since UNL is the only 1-A team in the state.)

Most of the major football schools are not located in major metropolitian
areas (ie 2 million or more).  The biggest exceptions are probably USC 
and UCLA, and neither school is exactly a big draw in the LA area.  


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I live in the Seattle area and here UW is similar in size and impact as dOSU or UNL.  The stadium seats around 80K and is mostly full even in bad years.    In good years a tickets can't be had.  Seattle has all the pro sports plus WSU in Eastern Washington and there's also lots of interest in high school football.   It must be the state school thing as many of the fans never attended UW.  

Clark Zahn
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