Quote:Open question to those Big East I-A fans: would your school even consider scheduling a home game with a Villanova or a Georgetown, with no return game needed?

-- West Virginia is playing Villanova in football soon as well



Jackson

Hey Chess,
Maybe you mean the metropolitan DC area includes some of Virginia. Washington DC proper is a district and not a part of any state. I can cut and paste from a variety of websites that will say the same.
Peace

With the new rule change related to one I-AA game per year not counting against a I-A program, there are more and more I-A/I-AA games being scheduled. The collective A-10 conference teams for example are playing just about the entire ACC over the next several years.

Quote:They are the Southern end of the Northeast Corridor region, rail line, etc. This is the southern anchor of BosWash aka the Megalopolis encompassing Washington, DC (yes including the Metro areas of it in VA and WV), Baltimore, Philadelphia, Wilmington, DE, Newark, NJ, New York, New Haven-Hartford, CT, Providence, RI, and Boston (again including the suburbs in NH and ME).

Correct. The Northeastern corridor has long been considered:

Washington, DC
Baltimore
Wilmington
Newark
New York
New Haven-Hartford
Providence
Boston

And by extension includes the states of Maryland, Delaware, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, New York, Connecticut, Rhode Island, Massachusetts, Vermont, New Hampshire and Maine as well as the Capitol District.

The term basically began as a railway system but has since expanded to include media and marketing as well.

Therefore when researchers want to know what different regions of America think about a program, a product, or an event they tend to group the above states together and consider it the Northeast region. There are exceptions, of course, but that is the area usually defined as the Northeast.

Cheers,
Neil