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[QUOTE="Dick_in_MI, post: 4250001, member: 225"]
Agree with your whole post. I love SU sports because 1)I grew up there, and 2)I did both my undergrad and grad work at SU. Still, my greatest love for SU has to do, not with sports, but the education I received and how it affected my career and thus my life. I may have Ernie Davis' autograph on my desk but the diploma on my wall is more meaningful.

College basketball is fast becoming the equivalent of the Syracuse Chiefs...aren't they the Syracuse Mets now?...or perhaps even a A or AA team. By that, I mean that the roster turns over at an accelerated rate as does a minor league baseball roster. Players who stay in one place for 4 years are becoming dinosaurs.

My grand-niece competed in a sport at SU. They got shockingly little funding and in fact the women had to pay for a number of things out of their own pockets. But they loved their sport and were all excellent students. My grand-niece got her degree from The Maxwell School. There is a kind of purity in that which has long since left the "money sports" and will evaporate entirely before long.

Even if SU does not end up falling into the "pro league" of universities, they will still be impacted. The times, they are a' changing as Bob Dylan so eloquently described bigtime college athletics...or perhaps he was referring to other things. He has always been kind of vague on that in those few (no) occasions when he and I have actually spoken.
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