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Message: [QUOTE="nzm136, post: 626032, member: 2531"] Your logic is fawed for two reasons: 1. By starting weak, you decrease the time for breaks. By starting strong and then taking a game off, you inherently break up the season more than starting weak and then building up. [B][I]What are you talking about? [/I][/B] [B][I]ANSWER: Hard-Easy-Hard = a break --> Easy-Hard-Hard = no break. Starting out hard creates breaks. Starting out soft destroys them. You are calling for breaks, but wanting to start out soft. You are arguing against yourself.[/I][/B] 2. I'm not even calling for an extra elite team that we wouldn't play anyway. PSU is one of our 4 (the other 3 being WVU, BC, and Pitt). Refusing to play a rival because you are scared is weak. I also never said that we had to play a 3 games on the road. I have no idea where you are getting that. [B][I]First, they are not ' '. Where did you get that idea? Second, there is a HUGE difference between being scared to play someone and understanding there is no reason to play someone. Not sure why you don't get this...[/I][/B] [U][B]ANSWER: We literally made "Rivalry Renewed" T-shirts when we played PSU in '08, we literally have a trophy with WVU, we are literally called "cross-division rivals" with Pitt, and we were the first BIG EAST team to play BC for a reason. You are arguing that playing PSU is too hard, so we shouldn't play them. What possible understanding of those words could mean anything but that you want us to dodge them because you're scared that we might lose.[/B][/U] 3. We are talking about Rutgers and UCONN. You're making it sound like I am calling for yearly games against Michigan and Alabama. RU and UCONN aren't coach killers. They are the breaks that you are calling for. UCONN isn't even in a major conference. Heck, they aren't even favored to win their non-major conference. In fact, there is a good chance that they will finish 3rd or 4th most years int their non-major conferences. [B][I]These points still don't address the fact that there is no good reason to play these teams.[/I][/B] [U][B]ANSWER: No. The reason was provided in earleir posts to which you invinted a fiction that SU's new coaching staff was prioritizing Ohio for recruiting purposes. I'm addressing your claim that playing RU and UCONN are "coach killers."[/B][/U] 4. And yes, playing infront of fans is better for SU football-wise. Who do you think pays for SU football? [B][I]How does playing at RU or UConn pay for SU football more than playing on the road anywhere else? [/I][/B] [U][B]ANSWER; Syracuse fans don't live just anywhere in large numbers. Playing near the city puts the game infron tof Syracuse fans and energizes the fan base down there. If you can't figure out how to translate that into more money, then I don't know what to say.[/B][/U] 5. How is being afraid of Rutgers and UCONN not sceduling like RU and VT? That screams RU. Seriosuly think about that for a second. We are talking abotu RUTGERS and UCONN. UCONN didn't even has a D-IA team 10 years ago, and RU is the poster child for stinking. [B][I]Again, I did not say I was scared of playing them. I said there is no good reason to play them.[/I] [I]Huge difference. I don't know how else I can say it. [/I][/B] [U][B][I]ANSWER: [/I]You said "[p]laying an OOC schedule like last year and then having to play an ACC schedule is a coach-killer. It simply makes no sense to schedule a WV/RU/CT - lose-lose situation," which is equating playing WVU, RU, and UCONN to playing the #2 OOC schedule in the nation and then saying that you don't want to do that because it's a "coach-killer." How could those word be understood in a way that doesn't invovle you beeing scared of UCONN and RU?[/B][/U] [U][B]RE EARLEIR POST: 1) I never said that we should play RU in the Meadowlands and 2) you do realize where Conencticut is, right? No, there isn't much talent in CT, butCT is so close to NYC that much of NYC actually spills over into CT. We wouldn't be playing CT to get CT recruits. We would be playing CT to get NYC/North NJ recruits, and even you admitted that you wanted those.[/B][/U] [/QUOTE]

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