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[QUOTE="Townie72, post: 1384411, member: 780"]
As to Oakland's point above about "over scheduling".

Now I said earlier that the locals --- the good folks of CNY --- are the core of SU football support. Without them, there isn't any SU football program.

HOWEVER, that's a two-edged sword. SU has to schedule teams that the locals think are good.

The problem is that Orange fans aren't stupid. They just aren't going to drive from Rochester or where ever to watch Norfolk State. (Someone mentioned Rutgers above without pointing out that their "success" (if you can call it that) was based primarily on scheduling. Blessed with the dumbest fan base (almost all new college football fans) in all of football, they could schedule Howard and actually get fans in the stadium.)

Syracuse fans are way beyond the point where they can be fed chicken feathers and believe it is chicken salad.

So SU HAS to schedule teams that the casual local fans recognize as being worth their time seeing.

Of course, that leads to a problem with our record.

We are, my fellow SU FB fans, squarely on the horns of a dilemma.

Once we build up the fan base --- yet again --- we can get people to the Dome to watch the Orange regardless of who we play (e.g. Basketball)
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