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[QUOTE="OrangePA, post: 290108, member: 204"]
If you think SU will become a football factory, you're clueless.
 
It will never happen - it can't happen - and it has never been what SU is.
 
In the best of all worlds, SU Football will be a consistent top 25 team with an occassional top 10 and maybe top 5 finish. It will never truly compete for a NC - at least with the BCS system in place. There is a big difference between SU FB and SU BB.
 
And that's where SU fans get it wrong I think.  
 
That's why so many on this board feel such frustation with the program at times.
 
Too many have the misguided notion that we are Ohio State or Alabama or Penn State or Va Tech for that matter - or that we should be those kinds of schools. We are not structurally capable of being those kinds of schools and we never will be.
 
Our endowment is not even $1 billion for gosh sakes - Stanford has an endowment of $16 billion - Notre Dame has an endowment of $7 billion, USC has an edowment of $3.5 billion and Boston College has an endowment of $1.7 billion.
 
BC has twice what we do.   
 
If you root for the kind of college football world that I think you're rooting for - a few mega schools that reside in the south - then it is [B]you[/B] that is foreshadowing the demise of Syracuse University football - not me. The world is passing by and you clearly don't understand the ramifications of what may be happening. 
 
I see exactly what is happening and what is "passing by" and I don't like it - not because I don't like big time college football - but because I think it will eventually relegate the program I have watched for 43 years. 
 
I want the game to allow for competition by the many - including Syracuse University - not the few - four conferences. 
 
The kind of consolidation that is apparently occuring is not in our best interests - and you don't get it 
 
Sorry you don't.
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