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[QUOTE="Sherman20, post: 4393056, member: 6357"]
I agree with some your sentiments and appreciate the post. But this is the kind statement that makes me crazy.
“For a small school [I]in the middle of nowhere[/I] upstate NY we've been incredibly fortunate.”
Really?
Oh, I didn’t realize Storrs, CT, Lawrence, Kansas, Lubbock, Texas, Spokane, Washington, Champagne, Illinois, Bloomington and West Lafayette, Indiana, Lansing, Michigan, and on and on were bustling metropolises in the center of all the action and areas we couldn’t hope to compete with. Syracuse is the ONLY P5 university in the entire state of New York (the third largest state in the country) and has a fanbase spanning from Buffalo to Albany, Watertown to Binghamton, an area comprising some 6 million people. Not to mention the massive alumni base in the NYC Metro area and Long Island. And for a private school, Syracuse is fairly large. We were a flagship school in the Big East and were courted to join the ACC for good reasons. I wish our fans wouldn’t act like it’s some out-of-the-way backwater.  JB has attested for decades about the great advantages of the job—it is a place you can win, as he’s said—and he decided to stay put for that reason.
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