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Message: [QUOTE="IthaCuse, post: 5613822, member: 10689"] This thread has gotten a lot of replies, some of them very intelligent and others downright moronic. This was the only comment that really made a convincing case to hold out hope for the football program. If this is the context in which Wildhack and SUAD are thinking, that actually would cause their behavior to make a lot more sense. Hiring someone like Fran Brown, a high risk/high reward move, is very justified in a world where you are hoping the status quo radically changes. If he can't get it done, it's not like a safer bet likely would have. If he can, you buy time for your program to survive until the next shift. I see a lot of folks also saying things like "if your goal is to annually compete for a national championship, that was already unrealistic". I can only speak for myself as someone born in 1992 who really became a fan at the start of our decline around 2003, but the idea that we could rebuild this program towards a special season that culminates in a championship was always part of my worldview as a fan. Ever since Greg Robinson I was told that we were going to rebuild to the glory years, which included occasionally being in the hunt for a championship. Again, I can only speak for myself in this, but I have no interest in following a sports league where my favorite team is structurally incapable of winning a national championship. I don't need my team to be a powerhouse, but I need there to be some level of hope. Otherwise I am just going to watch the Buffalo Bills instead. They make the playoffs every year, they return the majority of their starters every year, they have real rivals and actual traditions, at this point it is impossible to justify prioritizing Syracuse football over them as a fan. The only way to change that is if a change in the landscape renders us once again able to compete. [/QUOTE]

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