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Michigan State Donors with the 100M Gamble

CuseCactus said:
It's very weird now. Each passing day I slide back to the NFL and away from CFB. It's creepy frankly - building these temples to football at a State University. It's becoming culty. Guess that mirrors the weird polarization in our country - whatever your politics are.

I'm looking down the gun barrel at $75K per year to send my son to a decent college. And I read about this crap at MSU? Makes me sick to my stomach.

So... made a bit of a decision this week about a lot of things in my life that don't bring me pleasure. Not quite there yet with SU Football - but it's getting close. It's extremely hard for me to imagine Syracuse EVER making the CFB Playoffs - MAYBE if it gets to 16 teams.

FWIW - the one big decision I made is to stop following politics entirely. I feel both parties are revolting and mirror each other - it's all about the money. Kinda like college football.

A $100M coach at a State University? We are an idiocracy.
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I'm having a lot of those same feelings. I have watched very little college football this year outside of Syracuse and my parents 2 alma maters - Iowa and Wyoming.

I don't want to tell people how to spend their money, but it's hard to care about Ohio State, Alabama and the usual crowd every single year. I just hope SU can somehow get back to winning 6-8 games most seasons and I'd be happy with that.
 
MSOrange said:
I'm having a lot of those same feelings. I have watched very little college football this year outside of Syracuse and my parents 2 alma maters - Iowa and Wyoming.
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I'm pretty much the same. I watch the alma maters of my sons...my youngest son's three alma maters are all ranked...plus of course SU and that's it.
 
FrancoPizza said:
If we eventually get to 16 teams, our goal as a program should be to reach the ACC title game once a decade... and to expect to be in the ACC divisional race through at least the first 2 months of the season. Is that too much to ask?
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Yes we are where we have been for 20 years, just don' t see ever getting back to the 1990's. Jake missed the boat in 2003, when he let BC get the last invitation to the ACC. We lost 10 years of money, and the University can't spend the money to catch back up.
The new norm will be 1 good season every 5 or 6 years, but we will continue to be at the bottom of our division. At least my first 52 years as a fan had some great high points. The last 23 have in football been a disappointment.
 
baggerbob said:
Yes we are where we have been for 20 years, just don' t see ever getting back to the 1990's. Jake missed the boat in 2003, when he let BC get the last invitation to the ACC. We lost 10 years of money, and the University can't spend the money to catch back up.
The new norm will be 1 good season every 5 or 6 years, but we will continue to be at the bottom of our division. At least my first 52 years as a fan had some great high points. The last 23 have in football been a disappointment.
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Agreed. I was a frosh on the Hill in ‘87. Last Saturday - I actually turned off the game and did some work. Think about that - I preferred working to watching CFB.

Oh well. I’m optimistic we win Saturday and that’ll be fun. But this trend towards billion dollar college football teams is creepy. And we aren’t one of em.
 
Unless Mel Tucker pulls a Dino and just runs the ball until the clock runs out, Walker shouldn’t put up much at all today. Maybe he can play in the secondary and help that putrid pass defense
 
These rich donors are no different than rich owners who overly meddle into their professional sports team. (Only difference, a big one, is the presence of money has a huge inherent advantage in the NCAA due to the very uneven playing field).

The decisions they make are often not optimal, and the exact opposite of how they have made money in real life. They are no different than any other fanboy.

Its the sporting equivalent of "Think with your head... not your ----"
 
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I hate OSU. I'd rather Bama win over them. But it is kinda funny seeing MSU getting pounded. I want Tuck to be the national leader in yards - keep rolling OSU.
 
Michigan State is obviously good but their Top 5ish rankings recently are all smoke and mirrors. I would have teams like Ole Miss, A&M, ND, Wisconsin ahead of them on a neutral field.
 
I dislike Ohio St, and would normally be pulling for Michigan St in such a matchup, as I like to see different teams make the final 4.

But would love to see them win 70-0 today.

Now 42-0!
 
Is the OSU receiving core really that much worse than the Lions or Jets?
 
kcsu said:
Why? Misery loves company
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Because really good teams can drop a massive deuce on the field and still be really good teams.
 
I feel like the Tucker situation is similar to SU and DB contract extension -
except for the contract size. Both coaches with unproven long term track records at one place, no history of long term success especially with their own recruits and coming off good years with fear by the school other schools are going to poach them.

I’m a Bears fan and he was terrible. It’s very rare for the Bears to not give coaches a lot of time and it’s very rare they let a coach go after a year. So that says something
 
I don't think many would have predicted OSU/MSU and Georgia/Charleston Southern having identical halftime scores.
 
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