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[QUOTE="Townie72, post: 386809, member: 780"]
Actually, you are creating your own criteria for what a rivalry is and then saying that RU v. SU fits it. Clever, but it won't work.
 
I seriously doubt if many SU fans have that same definition for a "rivalry". Your bar is way, way too low.
 
A rivalry in my definition is a team that should you beat them and lose a significant number of the other games, your season is at least a qualified success. And that if you lose to them, regardless of how many other games you win, the season is a qualified failure. And that if you lose to you rival too many times, that's grounds for dismissing the coach.
 
SU vs. Georgetown in the 1980's was a real rivalry.
 
The SU reaction to Rutgers is because they have been a noisy annoyance not a real rival. They have wanted SU as a rival because they wanted to hitchhike on our traditions because their real traditional rivals, Lehigh and Lafayette wouldn't give them any cache at all.
 
And because Rutgers has been so long identified as being terrible, its maddening for SU fans to see us behind them in the standings or to lose games to what has been for decades, the Conference doormat.
 
Rutgers has never been an SU rival. And will never be in the forseeable future.
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