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Message: [QUOTE="NoFullHouse, post: 4414747, member: 5070"] Very similar timeline for me, though a bit older, I first watched games at Archbold where we always stunk. Though that made me appreciate the success all the more, what a gift it was to suffer thru something only to see it succeed, that has made me an anomaly - an SU Fan who's favorite sport is Football. So your son has a chance to fall deeply in love with this team as it reminds me of how we took off in the 80's, it started with the Independence Bowl in '79 with the Dome on the horizon it got us some recruits to where we got some wins, pulled off the Nebraska win, the Cherry Bowl, another level of recruits & home town guy Tim Green & we were off and running. I loved the Dome in the 80's & then slowly watched the apathy creep in during the 90's where people wouldn't show up for 9-3 teams> A buddy of my Dad's was a booster who said Coach P was hired because he was "married to football," but then he got married & had kids & there went the focus. The Rutgers game in the wind was the end, Kicking off into the wind Rutgers got 2 kicks back because the wind only let the ball go 10-15 yards & we had guys on the Goal line BOTH times. Coach Mac on the radio was yelling to call time out at the end of the 3rd Q when Rutgers was about to punt into the wind from their own 15 or something (so it might have gone 20yards...instead P let the clock run out & they kicked WITH the wind & had a 70 yard punt. That's when it was obvious he had checked out. Then poor GRob, had to fight the administration & Nancy who hated "the jocks," blocked Grob from getting his QB Colt Brennan, who went on to set every record they had at Hawaii. I was walking with that hag at Notre Dame that year & said, gee at 1-8 it's too bad we couldn't get Colt Brennan, she sneered at me "We didn't need THAT here!" (Colt got kicked out of Colorado b/c he basically went streaking-Colorado had just got in trouble for hiring hookers for recruits, so they couldn't have anything that sounded like sexual misconduct) But I digress...here we are in a similar spot to 1984 (should be 1987) if we can get some good recruits in the door, your son is in for a helluva ride. (Clay was in my back yard & I played hockey at Midstate & Liverpool HS) We hung with Clemson who had 16 of 17 recruits being 5 star, while we got one a few years ago (a punter in 2019) [URL="https://insidetheloudhouse.com/2019/06/20/syracuse-football-snags-1st-5-star-recruit-18-years/"]Syracuse football snags 1st 5-star recruit in over 18 years[/URL] [/QUOTE]

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