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[QUOTE="Col. Bleep, post: 5235989, member: 1023"]
All true.
The move to the ACC started it.
The Orange gave up their identity and the meaning of battling in-conference rivals.

I look forward to the annual G-town game but wonder how many students or recent fans have any idea of the rivalry and how important this game used to be.
It was one of the top 3 rivalries in all of sports...up there with Duke-UNC and Yankees-Red Sox.

There is not and will never be a real rival in the ACC (barring some bizarre incident).
Those "Beat Duke" shirts are an embarrassment.
Everyone wants to beat them.
And to Duke, Syracuse is now just another second or third rate conference team they have to play.
Their rival is UNC.

Larger than life coaches?
How great would it be in a conference where SU fans roared at Danny Hurley and Rick Pitino and insulted Ed Cooley? 
But the real Big East was the good old days.

There would be some of the old intensity and meaning if the Orange were competing at the top level of the ACC. Not like the good old days...but somethng.

And this new era of paid athletes and new players every year does nothing for loyalty or the old experience of seeing players develop and become stars.
The game is now mostly teams that happen to wear the names of colleges on their uniforms and where the players' names change every year.

But a fan is a fan.
So I look forward to the G-town game (with great apprehension this year).
I (still) LOATHE G-TOWN!

Go Orange!
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