(03-16-2013 11:59 PM)WNCOrange Wrote:  

(03-16-2013 11:45 PM)lazydawg58 Wrote:  

(03-16-2013 11:41 PM)WNCOrange Wrote:  

(03-16-2013 11:03 AM)Hokie Mark Wrote:  

(03-16-2013 10:07 AM)lazydawg58 Wrote:  So the three large metro areas of North Carolina make up three of the top ten markets for college basketball. Interesting.

Combine this with the fact that Greenville, SC (biggest city near Clemson) is the #2 football TV market (2nd only to Birmingham, AL) and you can see why the ACC is so desirable...

Is there some sort of adjustment that goes into this that accounts for the size of the market? As someone who lives in the Greenville market I cannot really see why it would be so desirable when the area only ranks as the 65th biggest metropolitan area in the country.

that has already been covered, it is percent of households, not total number of households

I get where the TV rating comes from. What I don't get is why it matters that such a small market has a large rating.

Other than arbitrary bragging rights, it doesn't.

(03-16-2013 11:45 PM)WNCOrange Wrote:  

(03-16-2013 11:21 PM)Laettners Legacy Wrote:  thats just what the Yankees want you to believe!

The irony of a Duke fan making a yankee crack is too much.

Not really. If he were a Duke alum, now that would be ironic. There are a good number of Duke fans around, at least during Basketball season. They are hard to find during football season though.

(03-17-2013 12:06 AM)lazydawg58 Wrote:  

(03-16-2013 11:45 PM)WNCOrange Wrote:  

(03-16-2013 11:21 PM)Laettners Legacy Wrote:  thats just what the Yankees want you to believe!

The irony of a Duke fan making a yankee crack is too much.

Not really. If he were a Duke alum, now that would be ironic. There are a good number of Duke fans around, at least during Basketball season. They are hard to find during football season though.

Over here in my neck of the woods the majority of Duke fans are yankee transplants while the native North Carolinians root for UNC or State. That said it very well could be different in the eastern part of the state.

(03-17-2013 12:09 AM)WNCOrange Wrote:  

(03-17-2013 12:06 AM)lazydawg58 Wrote:  

(03-16-2013 11:45 PM)WNCOrange Wrote:  

(03-16-2013 11:21 PM)Laettners Legacy Wrote:  thats just what the Yankees want you to believe!

The irony of a Duke fan making a yankee crack is too much.

Not really. If he were a Duke alum, now that would be ironic. There are a good number of Duke fans around, at least during Basketball season. They are hard to find during football season though.

Over here in my neck of the woods the majority of Duke fans are yankee transplants while the native North Carolinians root for UNC or State. That said it very well could be different in the eastern part of the state.

Most of the people around here are State, ECU or UNC-CH fans but there are Duke fans as well. I havn't noticed any particular team that the transplants root for. I thought they just kept rooting for the schools where they came from.

The transplant stuff isn't really true for western North Carolina either beyond an anecdotal level. Most of their fans and there are a lot of them are from here and they either didn't go to college or went to a college that doesn't play in a major conference like WCU, UNCA, App State, etc.... It's the exact same demographic as the UNC fans although UNC has more actual alumni here.

When we are talking about fans that aren't graduates there have always been more UNC-CH fans in the state than any other. They are the flagship school in the state, oldest public university in the country, school that is the most well known, etc. State is the second most popular for similar reasons. Duke's popularity is based more on the success of their basketball program over the last three decades than anything else. People love to pull for winners. If Wake Forest had had the same type of run they would have similar support. ECU is popular in the eastern part of the state and to a lesser extent across the state. ASU would be similar but in the western part of the state. The exposure the Big Four get in the ACC gives them a huge advantage in casual fan support. I haven't ever seen a Pirates or Mountaineer basketball game on tv that I can remember.

As far as fans based on graduates ECU and ASU have alum all over the state but of course UNC-CH and State have more. But when it comes to Duke there are very few. I only know a handful, well less than a handful. Oddly two are guys that I grew up with in my small town neighborhood and my insurance agent's father played baseball there back in the 1940s. Other than that I can't think of anyone else. If when Coach K retires we see a decline in Duke basketball expect an equally significant decline in the number of Duke fans in the state.