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[QUOTE="Marsh01, post: 239598, member: 473"]
Here are a couple of more tidbits (and this is coming from a guy who also lives and dies with the football program as much as the basketball program).
 
We are a basketball POWERHOUSE, not a basketball school.  Big difference.  With recruiting going as well as it is going, moving to the ACC, playing for a national championship year after year we have become a basketball powerhouse.  We basically select players to recruit as opposed to recruit players.  Hell Noel is the #1 ranked player in high school and we have a reasonable shot at landing him. 
 
Football is different.  I think most of it has to do with the landscape of college football today.  We are never going to win a national championship in football in my lifetime (I'm 41).  Just isnt going to happen unless more teams are brought into the post season equation.  We cant compete with SEC schools, Big 10 schools or Big 12 schools for the top recruits.  We basically recruit the leftovers that the better programs dont want and hope 4-5-6 of these kids end up panning out.  We are never going to get the #1 (or top 10 for that matter) recruit to come to play here.  We could have a magical season, go 11-1 and still not play for a national title.
 
Kids want to come to Syracuse to play basketball.  Kids dont want to come here to play football.  That may change and I for one would love to see it happen.  I just dont think it ever will.
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