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College Fandom in Florida (Poll Results)
Quote:College sports loyalties in Florida continues to be extremely closely divided between the Gators (23%) and Seminoles (22%), Central Florida and Miami tie for 3rd at 10%, followed by South Florida at 8%, Florida Atlantic at 4%, and Florida International at 1%.

Hooray, Miami.

http://www.tampabay.com/blogs/the-buzz-f...da/2222970
03-27-2015 11:29 AM
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Hurricanes decade of mediocrity has caught up with them...

...not quite down to pre-Schnellenberger levels of fan indifference, but certainly on the way there if they don't turn it around SOON.
03-27-2015 11:53 AM
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Looks good to me!
03-27-2015 11:57 AM
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So there are more fans of ACC schools in Florida than SEC schools?
03-27-2015 12:38 PM
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(03-27-2015 11:29 AM)Marge Schott Wrote:  Hooray, Miami.

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Wow from someone whom used to want to go to UF in my younger days and growing up with the Hurricanes while living in Miami in the 1960's, I'm impressed to see the fan Gap between FSU and UF has closed. I started noticing it around 2008 turning more students attending FSU. Glad to be ACC !
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Doesn't Florida have some sort of lottery or quota system that determines which in-state public university a particular high school grad may eventually attend? A niece who lived in Punta Gorda told me she felt she needed to apply to all of the state universities in Florida because only a certain number of grads from her high school would be allowed into each, and she wanted to be accepted into at least one of them. She ended up at USF and is currently studying abroad. If what she told me is true, then fandom may be influenced if large numbers of students who grew up as loyal fans of one school (perhaps their parents' alma maters) are obliged by the quota system to attend other institutions. Over time, it seems, popularity would therefore gradually shift to the schools (like UCF) with the largest enrollments.
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(03-27-2015 02:16 PM)colohank Wrote:  fandom may be influenced if large numbers of students who grew up as loyal fans of one school (perhaps their parents' alma maters) are obliged by the quota system to attend other institutions.

http://www.palmbeachpost.com/news/news/l...-uf/nSWJW/

The university does not have the academic credentials of an Ivy League school, but to many Floridians, UF is the school to attend.
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you employ specious logic ...
neither alumnus nor student necessarily equals fan ...
FAN = FAN
case in point: me
I attended uf undergrad & law ...
don't give a flying f_ _ k 'bout that school ...
a C-A-N-E to the core ...

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That UCF unreal 60K enrollment will only make them grow larger.
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(03-27-2015 11:53 AM)Hokie Mark Wrote:  Hurricanes decade of mediocrity has caught up with them...

...not quite down to pre-Schnellenberger levels of fan indifference, but certainly on the way there if they don't turn it around SOON.

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http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2014/...n-map.html

despite having done jack in god knows how long ...
Miami fandom dominates the most populous part of the sunshine state -- roughly 6m inhabitants -- according to a recent analysis of facebook likes ...

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Miami was always a bigger deal nationally than in Florida. I doubt Miami has ever been out of third place in terms of fans in Florida, just do to relative size. But nationally, it was the biggest deal in the 80s, held it's own in the 90s and 2000s with stiff competition.

Miami's value is never going to be in the fan base, it's just not worth talking about. It's contribution will be ratings and mindshare if they get good, as well as the potential to be really good in football. It's like bitching about Syracuse being cold, or poor FSU basketball attendance. You bring to the table what you can, and Miami needs to turn around their football performance, that's it. That's what needs to be expected of them, and where they are dropping the ball.

Doesn't matter if they have 35k fans or 65k fans in the stadium. That's not what they're here for.
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FSU basketball attendance was fine just a few years ago. But not making the ncaat while playing an ugly, awful, fundamentally poor brand of ball will destroy your attendance.

Anyways, no. There is no quota system in Florida. To my knowledge there never was. The only thing remotely similar is that a state/community college graduate is guaranteed acceptance into at least one state university, but that doesn't guarantee admission into all. Even then there is no quota.

FSU has received more applications than uf for the last ~5 years. Ucf enrolls ~12,000 new students every fall and ~6,000 are transfer students. Just some facts.

And south Florida is the largest metro in the state, but someone tell that Miami fan that the rest of the state is still home to more than twice the amount of people as south Florida. Outside of Dade, Miami fandom drops rather precipitously anyways.
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(03-27-2015 11:29 AM)Marge Schott Wrote:  
Quote:College sports loyalties in Florida continues to be extremely closely divided between the Gators (23%) and Seminoles (22%), Central Florida and Miami tie for 3rd at 10%, followed by South Florida at 8%, Florida Atlantic at 4%, and Florida International at 1%.

Hooray, Miami.

http://www.tampabay.com/blogs/the-buzz-f...da/2222970

Who do the other 22% root for?
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I'd imagine other schools or no rooting interest. Seems obvious.
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(03-28-2015 10:05 AM)ken d Wrote:  
(03-27-2015 11:29 AM)Marge Schott Wrote:  
Quote:College sports loyalties in Florida continues to be extremely closely divided between the Gators (23%) and Seminoles (22%), Central Florida and Miami tie for 3rd at 10%, followed by South Florida at 8%, Florida Atlantic at 4%, and Florida International at 1%.

Hooray, Miami.

http://www.tampabay.com/blogs/the-buzz-f...da/2222970

Who do the other 22% root for?

Virginia Tech! 04-cheers
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Wouldn't surprise me if VT had more fans in Florida than Miami does.
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I would have to guess that most of the unaccounted for 22% are fans of Georgia and Auburn, especially in North Florida and the panhandle region. So to answer WakeForestRanger's question. there are probably still more SEC fans than ACC fans.
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This isn't a shock to those that lived in Florida. I lived in south Florida and I came across way more fsu and uf fans vs Miami fans.
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(03-27-2015 06:43 PM)Marge Schott Wrote:  And south Florida is the largest metro in the state, but someone tell that Miami fan that the rest of the state is still home to more than twice the amount of people as south Florida. Outside of Dade, Miami fandom drops rather precipitously anyways.





Miami’s identity, especially its sporting identity, can be hard to pin down, but I saw it emerge in the midst of the anti-LeBron, anti-Heat hysteria after the big-three were put together, when all the bitterness and jealousy came pouring upon the city and the team’s fans. The response was a defiant middle finger, a South Floridian version of the Millwall chant ‘no-one likes us, we don’t care’.
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I take exception to your use of the word precipitously or steeply ...
from boca to the keys, the University of Miami reigns supreme ...
if for no other reason than geographic isolation ...
hundreds of miles of bad road separate U & the nearest P5 competition ...

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Dude, the NYT map you yourself linked shows that Miami's percentage in Broward and Palm Beach counties is substantially lower than in Dade. Go ahead. Look at your link. I don't mind.
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