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[QUOTE="All4SU, post: 765033, member: 381"]
I lived through it as well.  The initial trip to the Final Four was a fluke...a complete surprise...basketball had been so bad until Bing arrived...and in the decade that followed, SU was a strong regional team...definitely not a national team.  But SU was still a national brand in football, albeit one that had fallen on hard times almost precisely in time with basketball's rise.  But that doesn't make SU a basketball school.  Basketball schools don't build 50,000 seat football arena's.  JB knew it.  SU was a football school.  And the Dome was the catalyst to turn the program back around.  And while it turned football around, it launched basketball into being a national program which was solidified by Pearl, the Big East and the '87 trip to New Orleans.

I don't argue that basketball reached new levels of excitement surrounding that first trip to the Final Four.  But it didn't automatically transfer SU into being a basketball school, nor did the Dome.
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