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Message: [QUOTE="Jerseynole8, post: 2667914, member: 5898"] Looking at this from a national perspective, both Syracuse and RU are both irrelevant. RU never was and Syracuse hasn't been for a very, very long time. And again, from a national perspective, no one is holding their breath waiting for Syracuse to get back to where they were in the 80's and with McNabb in the mid to late 90's. So Syracuse and Rutgers fans arguing about who sucks worse is kind of comical. BOTH schools are playing in conferences out of their geographic realm and while you guys sit here and mock RU in the B1G, they are a closer fit to the mid-west culture than Syracuse, Pittsburgh and Boston College are to the south. In my opinion, both of these programs were hurt by conference "realignment". True, Rutgers only saw (mild) success when the old Big East broke up and the new conference essentially became a mid-major, but one could argue their recruiting as well as Syracuse's took a major hit when Miami and VT broke off. [B]Boston College Cincinnati Connecticut Louisville Maryland Miami Penn State Pittsburgh Rutgers Syracuse Virginia Tech West Virginia[/B] THIS should be the conference RU and Syracuse currently call home. It would be very good in basketball and still a viable football conference on the national level. I mean, it's no worse than the current Big 12. And I think had Miami, VT and BC stayed, with Penn State disenchanted with the B1G and Maryland in a financial funk, this could have happened and benefited all. I think had this been the alignment, Syracuse would have never fallen off in football the way they have and Rutgers would have come closer to realizing their potential than they have (and like it or not, in this set up they'd actually have some potential to be realized). I also think you guys are being overly critical of Ash because a. he reminds you of G-Rob or more likely you WANT him to be G-Rob and b. the PERCEPTION is out there that Urban told him to take the Rutgers job over Syracuse. Let me first say I think Dino is the right guy for the Syracuse job so I don't know why you guys would have any vitriol toward Ash to begin with. I guess, perhaps, it's human nature because the PERCEPTION is out there he may have slighted you even though you wound up getting the better HC for your school. I think the jury is still out on Ash at Rutgers but I think he can get them to 6-6 and minor bowl games most years. If the program gets to that point, it will be a more attractive job for the next guy with all the new facilities they are building/have built and the end of Ash's tenure will likely coincide with them receiving full revenue share in 3 years. [/QUOTE]

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