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Message: [QUOTE="cusestudent, post: 200112, member: 1225"] How is SU's national prestige better than Rutgers and UConn's at this point? UConn was in a BCS bowl, Rutgers has was national sensation in 2006, both have landed draft picks in the first round (something SU hasn't done since 2001). Let me make this clear, SU is an irrelevant team nationally this past decade, which is a lot of what recruits and sponsors put heavy emphasis on. Since 2004, SU has had one winning season with another being .500, UConn has had five along with two conference championships, and Rutgers had six winning seasons with a 5-1 bowl record. If you think both programs do not have more national sway right now then you are blinded by loyalty to SU. The whole point of the NYC games is for SU to be playing against a big name team on a big time stage with a lot of money coming SU's way. The program has to completely rebrand itself; it's time to look to the present and future instead of burying our heads in the past. I'm sorry but no one outside of the program cares about our past and tradition, and that's the simple truth. You are completely wrong about recruits, and by your first comment about me being a young in' I'm guessing you're closer to retirement than to being fresh out of college. You are completely out of touch with today's youth on this. They are all about what you've done RECENTLY and what you can do for them NOW, not what McNabb did nearly twenty years ago or what Ernie Davis did 50 years ago. It's about how many guys have you sent to the NFL in the past few years? How many actually play rather than sit the bench or are on the practice squad? All SU has is the past, it's time to start thinking about the future. [/QUOTE]

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