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[QUOTE="reedny, post: 180682, member: 1423"]
I give JTIII credit: Who else but a family member would have taken the Hoyas coaching job in 2004? Eshring hadn't left much to rescue. The towel was long gone. Recruiting was in the tank. Most of the thugs had left for careers in debt collection.
 
Fast forward to 2012: the team we're playing tomorrow is nothing like its physically intimidating predecessors (they have a Chinese ass-kicking to prove it).  They still get favorable whistles. But without the historic complement of gangsters, the refs are rarely called upon to eject a GT player or reorder the last 10 seconds of an SU-GT game so that the Hoyas win.
 
The fact is, there isn't a lot left to hate. We will play them and we will beat them and we will move forward. They'll go back to their spoiled 'classmates' and wax nostalgic about the glory days when Horace Broadnax kneed Andre' Hawkins in the groin (no call).
 
As far as a GT-SU rivalry in the future, who knows. The teams may play, but if the game is held at the Verizon, you won't be able to attend. The GT AD, as it did last February, will withhold all public tickets in order to exclude SU fans. Too much Orange cheering upsets delicate Hoya sensibilities.
 
My how times have changed.
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