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[QUOTE="Moontan, post: 330583, member: 166"]
To me it was more a case of people feeling a need to post and not having much (positive) to talk about. The program was down so the subject at hand was more of "well, I know the program is down, but at-least-we'll/I-sure-hope/we-better beat the perennial cellar dweller". It was more a point of concern than a rivalry.

I suspect to some younger/newer Orange fans, who were not aware of the natural order of things, that it may have looked a bit like a rivalry. Methinks that may have raised the chatter to a virtual online rivalry. To the old timers or anyone following the program in the late '80s and '90s, it was clear that this was merely a down period for the program coupled with a slight uptick for RU.

If one wants to consider a 10 year (?) period where this overlap occurred as a rivalry, be my guest. Others would argue that PP's dismissal led directly (Ray Rice) to this temporary convergence.

All will be well in the world and the natural order will soon be restored. Following this year you will find all of this talk die down. If it truly was a rivalry then that will not happen. Note that after the emotions had died down that SU and BC restored their annual rivalry. You will not see this happen with RU. There may be a 2-game series every 12-15 years, but there won't be a 10-12 game series. Syracuse will have played Northwestern more over the past 10 years than they'll play Rutgers over the next 10. Does that make Northwestern a rival?

Let it go, and don't look back.
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