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Message: [QUOTE="SWC75, post: 1441822, member: 289"] Actually, there are some good points there. A few more: I never compared SU's facilities to Ohio State or any other specific school. i merely point out that they had been upgraded on a fairly regular basis over the years. I realize that a "facilities war" developed over the last generation or so and we may have been a bit slow to respond but statements that "we never did anything" were provably wrong and I don't think our faculties were ever a 'joke'. We managed all the success you mentioned at the beginning of the post with what we had. Then we declined despite upgrades. I came on the board in 1999 and do not recall much discussion of facilities until Pasqualoni's job was in jeopardy. Then it became the whole reason for his problems, according to his defenders. We had the most future NFL players in the roster that we've ever had in the Pasqualoni era. Not enough to be regular national championship contenders but to beat Florida, Ohio State, Texas, Colorado, Miami, Michigan and Notre Dame and to nearly beat Tennessee's national championship team and Florida State. it made losses to East Carolina, Rutgers and Temple and blow-out losses to Miami, West Virginia, Virginia Tech, Purdue and Georgia Tech difficult to understand. And when we went 35-14, (23-5 in conference), never ranking higher than 14th in four rears with Donovan McNabb while Virginia Tech went 22-2 (13-1), ranked in the top 5 both years and played for the national championship in two years with Michael Vick, it left a lot of people with the feeling we could do better. But whatever happened, you always seemed to be arguing that it was the most we could have expected. The important thing was not to criticize the coach. Now back to 2015. [/QUOTE]

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