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[QUOTE="SWC75, post: 4310588, member: 289"]
It had everything to do with the general trend from the mid-60's into the 70's when the big state school programs came to dominate the sport and schools like Syracuse faded. it wasn't the only factor for SU but it was a factors for schools like SU.

Let's look at the period when the NCAA tried to enforce one platoon football through the rulebook:

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Now let's look at the same period of time after that:

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The lists are very different. other than the 'special cases' of Notre Dame and Southern California and some mid-majors, it's dominated by the big state schools that could recruit in the depth needed for two platoon football. That plus the crumbling facilities, the black revolt and Corbally's committee all were factors in the decline of the SU football program over the latter part of Ben Schwartzwalder's tenure. It wasn't just one thing.

[URL unfurl="true"]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One-platoon_system[/URL]
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