2006-09-02 00:29:58 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous in Sports ➔ Football (American)
next door to each other!! thats big footballarea
2006-09-02 00:31:43 · answer #1 · answered by josie 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
First, it's more of a national media 'obsession' than just an Illinois thing. Second, Notre Dame is only half an hour East of Chicago. Since most of Illinois' media is centered in Chicago, since South Bend is about 40 miles closer to Chicago than Champaign, since a large number of Notre Dame students and alumni are South Side Irish, and since Notre Dame has far more football tradition than Northwestern and Illinois (neither team has won a Nat'l Championship in the past 75 years), it's natural that a good portion of the media attention in Illinois would be focused on the Irish.
I think the state difference is really myopic -- why do people in Las Vegas cheer for the Raiders and 49ers when they're in California? Or worse yet, why do people in Kansas root for the Chiefs when they're in Missouri?
2006-09-02 06:51:24 · answer #2 · answered by Lmeister 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because the University of Illinois, Northwestern and Nothern Illinois (the 3 D1 schools in Illinois) are nowhere near as good as the team from South Bend.
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Also a lot of graduates and current students of Notre Dame are from Illinois. A lot of Notre Dame grads end up in the Chicago area.
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2006-09-02 03:01:53 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Good question and one that needs expanded. Why is the media so in love with Notre Dame, any team from Florida or California. This is all we hear about in the media anywhere in the USA. C'mon sports reporters there are other teams that deserve to be reported on.
2006-09-02 01:45:15 · answer #4 · answered by fortyninertu 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's not only the Illinois media. The NATIONAL media has an obsession with Notre Dame!!!!!!!
2006-09-02 00:37:09 · answer #5 · answered by frenchy62 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
locate me 2 communities with extra effective national followings. they're the two additionally interior the ideal 5 in all time wins (U of M is 1st). What does it remember if Miami has below 20k scholars? They nevertheless be able to fulfill all the NCAA standards to be branch 1A. they have had some very solid communities at situations interior the previous. This has been overshadowed by ability of being a set crammed with criminals and thugs. Stanford has below 10k and does in basic terms positive as a 1A college.
2016-11-06 06:47:00 · answer #6 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's only about 90 miles from the south side of Chicago to South Bend.
They need to get in line anyway behind the other national media in the search to find Charlie Weis's flaccid penis beneath the rolls of fat so that they can fellate him and the Farting Amish all the way to Glendale.
2006-09-02 03:39:32 · answer #7 · answered by TheOnlyBeldin 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Hey I'm in Penn State country. Its an Irish thing all Catholic Irish love Not re dame wherever they are. GO LIONS
2006-09-02 05:19:32 · answer #8 · answered by Harry W 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Probably beacuse the Fighting Illini football team stinks!
2006-09-02 01:09:25 · answer #9 · answered by oaknut 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
media bias.
Most likely, one of the children of the Media moguls are attending that school.
2006-09-02 00:32:19 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋