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[QUOTE="billsin01, post: 1386965, member: 837"]
Dude, take a breath for a minute and relax. I am not rooting against Syracuse's relevance or suggesting that the IPF is junk. I'm not saying that at all and even apologized for the poor articulation in my initial post relative to the IPF.

My points were these, neither of which I feel are all that antagonistic:

1) I don't really care about a bleacher report list. It's fine, it's good to get some good publicity. It's fun for us as fans. But seriously, this board just spent the last two weeks hammering a list of the top  college towns in the ACC b/c they had the audacity to rank us last. It happens every year when Athlon or Sporting News football annuals come out. It happens any time there's any list we don't like -- everyone here hammers it. So when an equally subjective list actually gives us credit for something, it's fine but it needs to be taken with one massive lump of salt.

2) I was merely saying that this is a university that does not have a history of pouring gobs of money into it's football program. It led to issues with Marrone, it led to the hiring of Shafer, it led to hiring a line coach who we weren't 100% sure had actually coached the offensive line anywhere (exaggeration), and it led to the Dome being a pretty out-dated facility which, before Darryl Gross, literally had nothing in it other than the lovely concrete and orange decor.

So my point is that I'm skeptical of the university's willingness to jump in with both feet to support this program to the extent that many of these other schools will. Money isn't everything and maybe the IPF is the start of a new era, but I do think it's a factor and a concern.
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