1986: Mississippi State 17-24, Army 28-33, Virginia Tech 17-26, Rutgers 10-16. We had a pretty good coach at the time.
It will be a bit more difficult to build a Football Empire here than a basketball one, because we already had notoriety in Basketball for many years, & football is more prized in the south. However, I do understand Cuse4Life's blueprint concept.
You are correct, money for facilities will help the program immensely, It worked at Oregon, where they are now competing for National Titles, & just a few short years ago, they were lucky to win 7 games a season...
Do you have any idea the talent level Oregon recruits from? Have you been to Oregon? Kids growing up on the West Coast LOVE Oregon...particularly the CA kids. They vacation there in the summer and the want to go there.
No kid is spending any time in Upstate NY and saying: "Damn! This is where I want to be!"
They may say: "This is where I want to ball!". But that is because they are playing before 20,000 people in The Done. That is unique. There is NOTHING unique about SYR football. When are people going to get that through their heads?
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