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[QUOTE="bpo57, post: 4215098, member: 1572"]
I can understand your last sentence to a certain degree as it relates to strength of schedule during the regular season and maximizing your rankings for NCAA seeding or bowl invites, CFP (one can dream) etc. Once those teams enter the postseason their success at that point is doing nothing for SU. But it may help that particular team's brand.

UVA won the natty three years ago.  How did that accrue to our benefit?  Our recruiting has been rather abysmal since then. Has BC and Pitt benefited from that title? Matter of fact how has that natty helped UVA?  They've done very little to capitalize on that win in terms of recruitment success. Big time studs won't go there because of the style of play. They could give a sheet they won the natty three years ago.

We will stand and fall on our own in terms of recruiting, coaching, player development etc.  None of that will be assisted by the postseason strength of fellow conference members. That postseason success or failure is kinda random and volatile.

Folks that think a few extra shekels from NCAA tourney revenue sharing or that a deep run by Duke, UNC etc. will make a difference for SU hoops are, quite frankly, delusional.
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