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Message: [QUOTE="Townie72, post: 2262529, member: 780"] Oh there's far too much negativity on the part of SU fans. Just read the board after an SU basketball loss and you'll see it in spades. But, in my experience these Upstate chronic complainers and whiners are mere pikers when it comes to the enti tlement to excellence the Joisey people have. It's as if turning their noses up at anything less then the absolute best somehow helps them feel better about themselves. I'm sure I can come up with better examples but the one that springs to mind was one of the local Townie kids got into West Point. Princeton was a much smaller town in those days and everyone knew everybody else. In the Ivy Inn tavern on a Saturday this kid's rare accomplishment was a subject of discussion by a crowd most of whom barely had gotten through high school. The locals acknowledged this was OK, but the consensus opinion was that Annapolis was a better school and if the kid had really been smart he'd have gone there. I can remember shaking my head thinking There was no way to satisfy these people. Anyone who thinks that Big Ten mediocrity is going to interest the Jerseyites in any meaningful way doesn't have a clue about the State. Especially in college football which most of them equate to AA baseball in comparison to the NFL. Now if Rutgers was to achieve Ohio State or Michigan level dominance of college football, it might change things. But anything short of that will hardly register. And the probability of that occurring is very low given Rutgers long, long history of athletic underperforming even minimal expectations. The average New Jerseyan will associate themselves with the pinnacles of excellence only. They might be the biggest Schubert ever in their personal lives but that doesn't mean they are willing to root for anything but the very best. [/QUOTE]

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