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Message: [QUOTE="texacuse, post: 2226504, member: 3478"] From where I sit a native Syracusan living about an hour from College Station, I can understand how a Texas alum may still wish to downgrade the football experience of the "12th Man" at Texas A&M's home of Kyle Field. In fact, with a son who graduated from UT Law School and another son with an undergrad & MBA from Texas A&M, perhaps I may be more impartial in this than you may be led to believe. However, after factoring in the 100's of millions of $'s into what has become a virtually new stadium for all potential football fans, the potential program cache of defeating a prime SEC contender on their home turf would be on all merit incalculably beneficial for the 'Cuse. College Station is in the heart of some of the most prime football recruiting territory in the Unites States. For decades, Nebraska has come to Texas for recruits, not the other way around. Metro Houston to the south (population 7 million), metro Dallas-FW to the north (population 7.5 million) and the hill country of Austin-San Antonio (population of about 5 million), the very watched and relevant SEC network, and the current and future understated 20% population growth per decade would make the experience of playing and winning at Kyle Field in College Station, Texas a not debatable far more valuable experience now and forever into the future than playing and winning in the diminishing relevance of Lincoln, Nebraska might ever be again. There is a reason that the Seattle Seahawks paid the Aggies $M's for the rights to use the 12th man slogan for the Seahawks fans experience. Coach Dino is also not coincidently the right man to make headway into this incredible college football recruiting mega sized and culturally predisposed hotbed. He has a history recruiting the state of Texas and his similarly mega charged personality and coaching expertise as a natural leader of men, is befitting and complimentary of the requirement to bring this talent toward SU from time to time. Coach Dino has in his capacity the opportunity to generationally change the perception of Syracuse football into the feared OrangeMen once again and be taken seriously not just in my precious hometown of CNY, but also throughout Texas and the south again, just like our national championship team who came and conquered Texas in the Cotton Bowl in some of our best days as a football program. Lets come back to Texas and the SEC again and kill two birds with one stone. If you believe beating LSU is a good prospect, beating Texas A&M would move the needle even more and be respected inside the state of Texas for years, unlike our tie did with UT in '94. Go Cuse, go 'The Boys of Syracuse' go OrangeMen. I could really use a Hoffman coney white snapper or two about now! [/QUOTE]

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