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[QUOTE="CuseCPT, post: 5234564, member: 645"]
It would've been more appropriate had Andy Bernard gone to Colgate instead of Cornell, but the quote fits perfectly.

I'll be blunt.   Syracuse is a has-been athletic program in football and basketball.    I started really understanding sports in 1986 and graduated from SU in 2001.   Local boy.   I thought [I]that[/I] was baseline for SU sports.   Looking back, SU peaked in 1995-1996.    Runner up in hoops, young McNabb beats Clemson 41-0 in a legit bowl game, and men's lacrosse was in the middle of one of the most dominant runs in any college sport.   I thought it was the norm, it was really just a golden age.

I guess it made me an entitled fan.    I look at the names on the jerseys and I expect SU to thrash BC in football, and for our walk-ons to be able to beat Colgate in basketball.   I don't blame the kids at all.   They are doing their best, but they just aren't the level of athletes we used to get.   Can you imagine our best player from a basketball team in that era and transferring to another team and not starting?!?!  The reality is that is our current level of talent.   It is what it is.     By the eye test, SU and Colgate looked evenly matched.    It looked like a hard-fought matchup between conference peers.

I have some hope that football might be headed in the right direction.   For hoops, instead of Andy Bernard, I'll quote Dalton from Road House, "It'll get worse before it gets better."
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