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[QUOTE="mantonio, post: 1473734, member: 709"]
I really don't even like feeling this way...

Yes, I have loved this program since my youth, & have enjoyed all the historic moments we witnessed, but it seems like it is all just a distant memory, & I find it difficult to wrap my mind & heart around all this.

Please don't misunderstand me, I do NOT want to feel this way, but I seem to expect less & less from Syracuse over the past few years, for a few reasons.

You see, I grew up during an era when Syracuse woke up from history & started kicking ass on a regular basis. There was a time when SYRACUSE was the best program for football in the Northeast, albeit a short period of time. But it was during MY time as a young adult, & I think we all just took it for granted as it unfolded throughout a good chunk of the 80's & well into the 90's.

We can say that all people have a provincial attitude about their own people, places, & organizations, but I don't think I am speaking fallacies when I say that Syracuse truly has been a special place for athletic achievement & much more, despite it's unlikely odds.

With this in mind, can we theorize that any success we have witnessed can be attributable ONLY to freakish chance, standard statistical odds, or the inalienable truth of some esoteric charm that has somehow fled the scene recently?

What are your thoughts on this phenomenon?
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