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[QUOTE="cto, post: 3304763, member: 412"]
Here is the absolute true history of this place.

There were a few earlier Syracuse fan boards,  but syracusefan.com opened for business on January 15, 2000.

It was started after several Syracuse fans .. disgusted by the sewer-like syracuse.com forum ... started visiting  The Boneyard (the Uconn fan forum) and were beginning to take it over based with the volume of their posts.

As a result, Tom (Temery) and Fishy,  the founders of the Boneyard,  approached me about starting a syracuse forum -- mainly to get the Syracuse posters off the Boneyard.   So the three of us started it.   Just the three of us.  And it debuted on 1/15/00.  The original posters were me, Tom and Fishy ... using a variety of aliases to pretend there were more than just three of us.

Our first real poster was Yegorange.  And we kept getting more posters from among the Syracuse fans who had been posting on the UConn board.

It then became my job to find more Syracuse posters.    I launched multiple raids on syracuse.com, urging posters to come to syracusefan.com,  and I was finally banned there.

Once we had a core group of posters here, it was time to find admins and moderators.   Based on the content of their posts,  I invited a group of people i didn't know (didn't even know most of their real names) to meet for dinner at the Syracuse University Sheraton.  The group included bees, Jake, tomcat and Cherie.  This was a momentous step in the evolution of syracusefan.com.   And the rest is history.  (Funny sidelight to that dinner.  Cherie was so nervous about meeting a group of anonymous internet geeks,  that she brought her husband to the dinner with her).

We were founded as an independent board.  Along the way we affiliated with Scout and Rivals... but then we became independent again.    Tom (Temery) still does much of the heavy lifting  here (non-content related), even though he remains a UConn fan.
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