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[QUOTE="Cusefan95, post: 826388, member: 173"]
People are generally far more willfully ignorant than we like to think.  Before the Penn State game I was talking with coworkers that are Penn State grads, who all assumed that Syracuse was something like 3-9, 4-8 last year.  It should be noted that these same people knew that I had gone to the Pinstripe Bowl, saw the pictures I posted from the game, and talked with me about it the following week.  Let that sink in for a minute.

Someone posted a while back about asking people at the ACC media day what they thought Syracuse's record was, and a significant number thought they finished last in the Big East.  These are people that are paid to be informed, and they are, generally, that ill-informed.

People generally draw a conclusion, and will disregard all data that doesn't support that conclusion until there is literally no option left but to discard the original belief.  Right now the belief nationally is that Syracuse is terrible at football.  I'm not sure that people can make the belief change to 'Syracuse might be good at football' without some major event - either a Duke-like season or knocking off a #1 FSU in the Dome next year.  But little things like that blurb in the article you cited certainly help along the way.
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