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[QUOTE="qdawgg, post: 4830984, member: 52"]
David - I’m saying this in the most respectful way, seriously.  So if there’s any hint I’m being a jerk, I absolutely am not.

I completely get what you are saying and for you, it makes sense. You’ve been an SU fan for like 2 years.  Your sense of a bowl is very different than mine.  I’m 45 (I think, I’d have to do the math) and definitely not as old as some of the people on here but I’ve been an SU fan since about 1990 and my greatest memories were around the McNabb time frame.  Back then, bowls meant far more than they do now.  For many reasons I’m not going into.  But if your team made a bowl it was literally like a Super Bowl.

That is gone in college now.  It feels more like a spring game.  What you know of bowls is how it is now, you never experienced what the bowl season really was like, especially for an SU fan that didn’t go bowling every year.  I went to the Pinstripe bowls, except the last one.  They felt that same way too.

But with the portal, even greater coaching turnover now than before and it happens before bowls are even played, and players sitting out bowl games.  That Super Bowl feeling is not there anymore.  I don’t think I’m alone in feeling that.  And honestly it makes me really really sad because this has been part of who I am every weekend even though we’ve sucked a large % of my life.  I’m still there every weekend watching.  So to have that carrot and Super Bowl type game reduced to a spring game, it’s a struggle to continue caring about the sport each year.
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