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Message: [QUOTE="sufandu, post: 2589414, member: 874"] I think most of us consider the good teams to be those that are consistently ranked in the polls. The first year we finished the season ranked in the AP poll was 1952. From 1952-1961 we finshed the season as a ranked team 6 times. We did not finish the season ranked in the AP poll again until 1987. From 1964-1971 we made appearances in the AP poll 6 other times peaking inside the top 10 four times and going to 2 bowl games. So, we had a 20 year period where we appeared in the poll 13 times and finished in it 6. We then had a period of 15 years from 1972-1986 where we made no appearance in the AP poll that extends to 25 years of not finishing the season ranked. In the 15 year stretch from 1987-2001 we were ranked at some during the season 13 times and finished the season ranked 9 times with 7 appearances and 2 finishes in the top 10. Finally, we have our most recent stretch of 16 years of being unranked. Where does that put us? I don't know. We have enough history to take pride in, but our stretches of being irrelevant are long enough that 2 separate generations graduated from high school without having any reason to have a memory of us. I was lucky enough to have come of age in the late '80's and was able to watch our success into my early 20's. If I had been born 15 yrs sooner, it's possible I wouldn't care about SU football. It seems that, if our long stretches of irrelevance had been broken up by a couple good seasons, we would not have been forgotten outside of CNY as easily. Maybe this speaks to the way the administration has historically been too reactive instead of proactive and too comfortable to rest on its laurels. Hopefully, lessons have been learned with the right guy now at the helm and an AD that "gets it." [/QUOTE]

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