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[QUOTE="OrangePA, post: 1441205, member: 204"]
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I never worked for the University.

But I have been close to the Football Program for over forty years.

This has all been re-hashed many times: (1) the Syracuse teams in those years were never national championship caliber teams - the fans, many of whom are on this board typically overestimated our talent level; (2) the facilities those teams had were pitiful - and again many on this board had no idea that that was the case; (3) those teams won a lot of games and went to many bowl games including the Fiesta, Orange, Gator, Liberty Bowls; (3) the program was universally respected and (4) the fact that those teams on rare occasion lost games they were favored to win is always way overblown on this board - all good teams lose games they are supposed to win - Pete Carroll's great USC team lost to a one-win Stanford team and lost other games they were supposed to win - Don Shula's 17 point favorite Colts lost the Jets - Jim Boeheim's teams have lost those kinds of games on many occasions - Vermont, Richmond, et al.

If I could have a repeat of Pasqualoni gave us for thirteen years - actually more than that - when he arrived the team went to the Sugar Bowl - I would take it in a heartbeat - even with an occasional loss to a Rutgers or Temple or even NC State.
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