I started watching football in the late '60's early '70's as a kid. The NFL was much more popular then, than college football but I realized at that young age that, the pro guys played in college before they were pro's. So then I would watch as much college football as I was able to, to be able to see the guys who would be the stars in the NFL. You follow so far? Well, one day I'm watching a pro game around say 1972, and the announcer says that JIM BROWN, played his college ball at Syracuse. Well, I fell off the couch. Do you mean to tell me that the greatest football player of all-time played right here in CNY for the Syracuse Orangemen? Since that instant, Syracuse University and SU sports took on an entirely different dimension to me and that has lasted to this day. That Syracuse strives to be in the very top level of sport. In any event, the 70's were not a great decade for Syracuse football, but they would be on TV occasionally during The Hurley era. I would say when I really started following the Orange was when coach Mac took the reigns ( I used the word reigns here because of the season) and Donny MacPherson was the QB. Now none of this has a lot to do with this thread. I do firmly believe that when the ACC football dissolved, that Syracuse lost all it's ties to it's historical greatness and something needs to be done to get that back. Maybe playing Buffalo could help a little. I'm not sure, but I can tell you that this Southern league hasn't been something good for our teams, the money has been good, but the rest has been enervating.