To answer clarinetdads quesPSU, I went to high school in Mass. in the 1970s, and back then PS was the only major football power anywhere even close to the Northeast. Places like Maryland, Syracuse, BC, and Pitt played an occasional big game, but PS was the only perennial powerhouse, and also the only one with a cozy college town and a rabid fan base. While most people in my high school dismissed big universitiesas places where u were “just a number,” some were after the classic rah-rah football/frat/college town experience, and PS was the only option in the whole Northeast. 40 years later, it’s still the only real such option in the Northeast., despite Rutgers and Maryland being in the Big 10, and BC, Syracuse, and Pitt being in the ACC. Given the widespread skepticism in the Northeast about the existence of indoor plumbing and people marrying outside their families in the South and Midwest, PS can continue to attract hoardes of Northeasterners and overcharge them. Sooner or later word will get out that the PSU experience can be had much cheaper in Tuscaloosa or Lincoln or Norman .