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Message: [QUOTE="Scooch, post: 180358, member: 628"] Well, we [I]will[/I] be playing teams from the Coastal, just not annually. For recruiting purposes I think it's MUCH better to be playing BC and Maryland. Those two, along with Pitt, means that SU will be playing at least 7-8 games a year in the northeast. That easy access for recruits and their family is important given that we are moving to a southern-leaning conference. Meanwhile, we have a history with Miami and VaTech, but that history only ran about 12 years. It's not like there was anything "natural" to those rivalries. We had rivalries with those schools because SU was damn good for most of those 12 years, so we played games where there was something on the line. If SU were to get back to that kind of Graves/McNabb-era level, and assuming FSU and Clemson are good too, we'll develop the same kind of performance-based "rivalry" with those schools in the future. [/QUOTE]