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[QUOTE="Chip, post: 264058, member: 19"]
It makes sense if you're building a program from scratch, as RU was.  They were like Kansas State.  There was no tradition to point to, no local interest, pretty much ever.  So at least try to win some games, sell some snake oil, see if it works.  It's not like you can look at your fanbase and say, well we have data that they won't attend games against MAC or FCS programs.  They only had data that said they won't attend games, end of sentence.

Problem is, it's not sustainable.  Once you start winning, you need to move forward.  RU never did it.  Yeah, they finally scheduled Arkansas this year, yippee.  But too little too late.  They expanded a stadium without fans to fill it.  The act got tired, the program's upward momentum hit the Jersey wall.  Conference expansion looked at the product and passed.  Which cost them the only coach whoever made them a somewhat relevant program.

Syracuse may schedule too tough some years, but it hasn't been that tough all years.  And we have the luxury of being a once, twice, three times a lady relevant football program.  We have data that says fans don't want games against 1AAs, so while it may be business as usual to do it once in a 12 game season scenario, we have to schedule BCS Conference opponents.  I'll take our way, it was part of an overall package that made us more attractive to stronger, more stable, conferences like the ACC.
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