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[QUOTE="Townie72, post: 1990559, member: 780"]
I have no idea what that sentence you wrote means.

But I agree that SU and Boeheim have been punished for things that other schools would not have been. We either don't have enough "Rabbis" in high places or we are an attractive target.

For some exceedingly strange reason, the Syracuse papers have been extraordinarily hard on the University. It's as if they are driven to foul their own nest. As the area sinks into deeper and deeper economic and social doldrums, they have consistently attacked one of the few positives in the area.

I once had a conversation with the editor of the Herald-Urinal (a friend of my wife's) in which he told me it was his job to "afflict the powerful". And to him, SU was the "powerful".

I told him --- with a few drinks under my belt --- that without SU, the City of Syracuse was Utica. The University was the only freaking thing that kept Syracuse from being just another culture-free, dying burgh in the frozen North. To screw with the lone goose that was laying any kind of golden eggs was crazy.
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