(06-01-2013 09:29 PM)CrazyPaco Wrote: (06-01-2013 12:38 PM)Captain Bearcat Wrote: (05-31-2013 11:15 PM)CrazyPaco Wrote: (05-31-2013 04:49 PM)AtlanticLeague Wrote: (05-31-2013 04:34 PM)jaminandjachin Wrote: I'm not saying that because of geography. I've been in the DC area plenty of times. Maryland isn't the only game in town. Heck even West Va gets some play in that area.
You're right, there are a ton of ACC grads in DC. But there are also a ton of B1G and Ivy and Pac fans too. DC is a magnet for alums from top schools so we get a bit of everything. VA and VTech have well-established fan bases in DC proper, but they fade to a trickle once you get to the Maryland border.
Pitt has over 12K alumni DC metro area too.
12k isn't that many, especially compared to Big 10 schools. UC has almost 5k, and we're a lot farther away and smaller than OSU, PSU, Michigan.
Still well over twice as many. What are the Big Ten numbers? I know Pitt has more alumni than Ohio State which is has less than 10K and OSU is a much bigger school with a much bigger alumni base than Pitt. It is also more than Michigan, which has just under 10.5K when counting DC and the entire states of VA, MD, WV and DE. Alternatively, it is also more than twice as many as Loyola, a relatively local school by comparison. If people want to talk about all the OSU and Michigan alumni in DC that will be going to MD games, well there are easily more Pitt alumni there than either of them and Georgetown and Navy are familiar with this phenomena.
I don't have other Big 10 numbers, but OSU and UC have about the same percentage in DC as each other. So we can extrapolate from there.
UC is far enough away that we have as many in DC as we do in Chicago, SF, or LA, and our numbers in Denver and Atlanta are pretty close. So DC is not a hotspot for Ohioans. Most Big 10 schools (except PSU, Rutgers, and MD) probably have similar distribution, except they dwarf UC in size (and every ACC school):
illinois 653000
penn state 560658
indiana 555000
michigan state 529000
michigan 500000
ohio state 465000
Purdue 392100
rutgers 390000
Wisconsin 387192
minnesota 375000
Pitt 294000
fsu 290000
UNC 286,707
Cincinnati 260421
Syracuse 241000
maryland 240000
Va Tech 214000
iowa 201000
uva 200000
North Carolina State 170000
miami 160000
Duke 145000
Ga tech 126000
Clemson 115000
louisville 103398
I'm missing Nebraska, NW, BC, and Wake's numbers.
Basically, UC and OSU average around 2% of their alumni base in DC. If the 8 other midwestern B1G schools I have info for had the same percentage as OSU, that's 87,000, not counting Nebraska, NW, PSU, Rutgers, or MD. Every ACC school not from the region (UVA & VT) would have to have the same percentage of their alumni base in DC as Pitt (4.1%) to match that number. The NC schools might be close to that, but I'd bet anything that none of the rest are.
The very fact that Pitt, the school with the ACC's largest alumni base and the 3rd closest to DC, has an alumni base in DC that is about equal to the 7th largest Big 10 school is very telling, particularly when Ohioans don't move to DC in large numbers. I'd guess that in addition to PSU, MD, and Rutgers, you'd also see that IU, Illinois, and MSU have about the same or more alums in DC as Pitt. And you already figured out that OSU and Michigan are within 80% of Pitt. But I'd bet that the 4th ACC school in DC is way, way behind Pitt.