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Message: [QUOTE="jekelish, post: 826086, member: 82"] The win was so massive, as you say, for overall perception. I don't care if you play in the Scrubbing Bubbles Toilet Bowl, as long as you're in a major conference and playing in a bowl game, it's going to help recruiting. Considering Syracuse is still a national name (at this point thanks mainly to basketball, but still) that coupled with being able to say "three bowls in four years" and pointing to the recent upswing can only help, particularly if our coaches are the recruiters we think (hope?) they are. Seems like it's a lot easier for a coach to talk a recruit into joining a 7-6 program that won a crappy bowl, than a 5-7 program that looked ugly. And we did look ugly most of the year. But a win, is a win, is a win, and at the end of the day (and the season) no one remembers how you won games, just THAT you won games. [/QUOTE]