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Message: [QUOTE="Scooch, post: 22286, member: 628"] Seriously. For all the great work that Mac, and P & D, did to bring the program back, no one should ever overlook the fact that the job was helped immensely by the relative lack of competition at the time in the northeast. PSU still dominated, but BC was run into the ground by Bicknell after their Flutie flash in the pan, then followed the Coughlin resurgence by hiring the Idiotic Dan Henning to kill that and enjoyed a super-awesome gambling scandal; Pitt decided to resurrect their program by bringing a 114 year old Johnny Majors back; Rutgers was busy making themselves the worst major conference program in the history of mankind; Temple was Temple; UConn was putting 8K in their 1-AA stadium while playing Hofstra, etc. This not to disparage the accomplishments of SU, but we have SIGNIFICANTLY less competitive headwinds back then. [/QUOTE]