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Message: [QUOTE="Lou_C, post: 740294, member: 3201"] That's five years, going into conference play with 2 losses in four of them. That proves Syracuse is not scheduling correctly. At some point you can't keep saying "should have won." You are what you are. Maybe going into conference play with two losses makes sense to you, but that is not the case, and it's bad news for the ACC. Unless you are piss poor (Kansas) and plan on going 0-fer in the conference. Because otherwise, every ACC team you beat just looks bad. NOBODY cares who you lose to. Most of the time they don't care who you beat, unless you're 12-0 and 11-1 and fighting for a national championship. Otherwise nobody cares, and wins are wins. Just the fact that no other conference has teams doing this should make it clear on the face of it. You don't schedule yourself to go into conference play with two losses year after year. When you have a five year run of it, that proves that the scheduling philosophy is flawed. Remember, you're not in the Big East anymore. Starting next year you've got three top 10 teams in your division. Not only are those going to be likely losses, but you're visibility isn't going to disappear like you're used to in the Big East. It's not like you HAVE to get those OOC games just to stay on the map when you've got Clemson, FSU, Louisville and every three years Notre Dame. You don't need to use the OOC just to get in front of eyeballs of better recruiting areas. Play the game as it's played. It's like Syracuse (and UVA and BC) are refusing to throw the forward pass because you didn't back in the day. Yes, you made fun of Rutgers. But it was a much different story in the Big East schedule. And who got the last laugh? You can't support doing the wrong thing just because you have a mental consistency bias. Yes you made fun of Rutgers. Yes, you need to follow the same philosophy. Yes, it's hypocritical. Who the hell cares, that's what college football fandom is all about. You should see the way UF and FSU fans go nuts criticizing every time one of the other's players gets arrested. [/QUOTE]

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