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[QUOTE="Stern, post: 1861155, member: 527"]
Just because you and a few others don't like them it doesn't make Rutgers a rival. They are not a rival of SU, never have been and never will be.  At best (or worst depending on how you look at it) it's a manufactured rivalry for some on 2 message boards totaling a couple hundred people and even that is stretching things to call it a rivalry.

It's not like back in the day (and by that I mean last 10 years) when Rutgers came to town the Dome was sold out and the game was anticipated. And vice-versa, when SU went to Rutgers plenty of seats were available and it was the furthest thing from a rivalry.  I have come to accept that these days we live in this "ESPN Culture" where "hype" is greater than "substance." Every game is the biggest game, every moment is the greatest moment, every play is the most spectacular play ever, and every little dig or smack talk is the birth of a new rivalry. When in reality it just isn't.

A lot of Syracuse fans HATE Notre Dame, that doesn't make Notre Dame the rival of Syracuse. Just because a bunch of message board posters hate Rutgers doesn't make it a rivalry. Your "every day fan of Syracuse or Rutgers" who isn't on a message board daily/weekly doesn't think about the opposing school at all for 365 days. A few die hards do but again, that doesn't make it a rivalry.
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