(03-30-2021 04:31 PM)GoOwls111 Wrote:  

(03-30-2021 04:17 PM)CitrusUCF Wrote:  

(03-30-2021 04:12 PM)GoOwls111 Wrote:  

(03-30-2021 03:05 PM)UAB Schnauzer Wrote:  

(03-30-2021 03:50 AM)jedclampett Wrote:  Correct, and you live in New York, so you know why.

New Yorkers, by and large, don't give much of a damn about college sports any more. There was a time when they cared about college basketball. NYU had one of the top teams in the nation back in the 40's and 50's, but eventually they gave up on D1 sports.

Even professional sports don't generate the kind of enthusiasm they do in most large cities.

The reason seems to be that New Yorkers are flooded with all of the shows and events that you can think of 365 days a year. There are always a million things to see and do, and who has time for sports - - or if you have time for it, just catch them on TV and don't make a big deal about it.

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It's also related to the fact that U. Chicago, like NYU, dropped their D1 sports, and that the Ivy League dropped down to FCS level. It's not that they're being elitist. They've simply got other fish to fry. They're busy and preoccupied with other stuff.

You are thinking of CCNY who won the 1950 NCAA tournament and the 1950 NIT. At the time the NIT was the more prestigious of the two. The dropped D1 sports do to a points shaving scandal

Imagine that, a true community college winning the NCAA and NIT Tournaments and folks are bitching that BSU is a glorified Community College... BTW, not a fan of BSU, but they deserve more respect.

It's City College of New York, not Community College. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CCNY

The CUNY System is the equivalent of a community College system anywhere else in this country.

I Graduated from the system with 2 degrees, the biggest difference is that they have 2 Four year Colleges in the system (CCNY and Brooklyn College) each located in the 2 heaviest populated Boroughs in the City of NY