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Message: [QUOTE="bnoro, post: 43273, member: 71"] Let me preface this by saying I am a Senior at SU living in NYC right now working a 12 credit internship. I meet a lot of people from many backgrounds at my job. Many people ask me where I go to school, and when I answer it's always "great basketball but that football team sucks, right?" The issue is the perception of Syracuse football has not changed yet in the mind of the casual fan, as the team has not done anything to do so yet. While we have won a few big games over the last 2 years (at a ranked WVU team, the bowl game against KState) we haven't had a game where the whole country saw it and said "that team's for real, they have some youth, they are going to be good." Our best opportunity was the Pitt game last year, and the K-State game would have been nice too if people talked about anything besides the salute. While I hate to make the comparison, we need our "Rutgers over Louisville win". This friday is our chance for that. We are on ESPN (coincidentally, RU vs. Lville is on the deuce). We will be playing a WVU team that could move up close to the top 10, as G-Tech and Michigan lost, and as I am writing Oregon is in a tie game. The whole college football world will most likely be watching. Now, if we completely the bed, nothing changes, it's "same old syracuse". But if we beat a WVU team that analysts love because of Holgy, with their high flying spread offense, people will be talking, and those fans that don't care about us otherwise will remember our whole season on one win, even if we lose out. Now I'm not saying we are going to win, but I think we keep it close. If we successfully defend the Schwartzwalder Trophy, we gain respect in the minds of NCAA FB fans, recruits, and coaches. This is when you see our recruiting go on the upswing, and that's how we get back into the top 25. [/QUOTE]

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