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[QUOTE="DoctorBombay, post: 1459860, member: 626"]
Fair enough.
But recognizing and valuing history isn't synonymous with resting on your laurels or living in the past- the 2 can be mutually exclusive.
As for our "arrogance"? We have earned the right to be "arrogant" towards Rutgers, and they haven't as of yet truly done enough to shut us up.
As an aside- the perfect contrast on the rivalry scale is UConn Basketball. They have won championships in th BE and afterwards, and have DEFINITIVELY earned the right to talk trash. How? They proved it on the court. We may loath each other as programs, but the UConn Huskies are a proven rival who took their respect...whether we wanted to give it to them or not. In the end we had no say in the manner.
Pray tell, what has Rutgers done to merit such respect from Syracuse football fans? How much more "superior" has their performance been that we should give them so many props, as the Rutgers obsessed fans tend to do?
Just because we have tended to SUCK, it doesn't make Rutgers this superior program compared to ours all of a sudden. That's not "de nial"- that's just facts and commonsense.
JMHO
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