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[QUOTE="Townie72, post: 1592746, member: 780"]
This discussion is about definitions and terms. Just lay out for me your criteria for a rivalry (And I'll show you how using your criteria that there  are many more schools ahead of RU to be a SU rival.

"Rival" is for me an exalted state. In order for there to be a real rivalry there has to be a long history of meaningful games played. There have to have been "incidents". There has to be "villains"

Some of you are mistaking "Competitors" for "Rivals".

Auburn and Alabama are Rivals

Ohio State and Michigan are Rivals

Duke and UNC are Rivals

Georgetown and SU are basketball Rivals.

A "Rival" is a team that if you beat them and have a sub-.500 season, the season is judged a success at one level.

The relationship between SU and RU doesn't even come close to being a Rivalry against any kind of criteria..

What we have on here is some people thinking that a few barbs traded back and forth between fan bases rises to a Rivalry. Or because their fan base is particularly annoying that that makes a rivalry.

Army and Navy are Rivals. RU and SU are just two teams that played one another a few games.

Some of you think it's a school we ought to schedule more regularly. Maybe we should, but it sure isn't because we have ever been "Rivals".
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