sutomcat
No recent Cali or Iggy awards; Mr Irrelevant
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Agree to disagree.I don't know about "never, under any circumstances" as that is 100% your opinion. There are no guarantees, but probabilities. No one had foreseen the 2004 expansion debacle. I realize SU rather desperately needed to get either an ACC or B1G invite, knowing the dire circumstances of being left without a chair to sit in once the music stopped. Who knows for sure if the B1G takes us over Rutgers if we don't get that ACC invite. Syracuse by no means was in a voluntary hedging position. Many here I recall were quite concerned about SU's plight if an offer hypothetically never came. There was a lot of debate of who best captured NYC's lucrative TV market, etc. and it wasn't clear it was Syracuse over UConn and or Rutgers. Fortunately, similar as the Colts left Baltimore in the middle of night, we quietly got that ACC lifeline.
We were targeted for inclusion in the ACC for decades before it happened. The only reason it didn't happen decades ago was our extreme loyalty to the conference we founded. We did everything humanly possible to keep it going but when it was clear it was going to die, we left as well.