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The Daily OrangeYear in Sports | After they went Orange: The senior class saw zero bowl or NCAA Tournament wins. And since Syracuse changed its identity, there's enough disappointment to go around
Abstract:
Four years ago a week from next Sunday - graduation day of the senior class, by coincidence - marks what was supposed to become a new era of Syracuse sports. The Orangemen and Orangewomen became the Orange, an artificial creation of something so arbitrary but in hindsight, a date that serves as a tipping point in Syracuse sports....
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Marc LeVine
posted 5/01/08 @ 2:37 PM EST
"this year's seniors become mere archived alumni in a database."
This quote, more than any other I have read in the D.O. over the past year, is most disturbing. It's even offensive!
Many of us, who have been out of SU for thirty years or more hope our beloved university thinks more of us than this! If not, they need to stop calling my home at 8 pm, once per week, seeking donations.
Zach...Zach...Zach. The class of 1978 experienced many of the same sports frustrations that are being felt by the present graduating class.
Yes, we had a really exciting year back in 1975, when "Roy's Runts" went to the Final Four, as a Cinderella team. But, believe me...the whipping we took from Kentucky didn't leave us all that proud. We really had no illustrious Basketball tradition, in those days, to point to and say, wait until next year. We were the "George Mason's" in yet another UCLA year!
You couldn't even find an SU tee shirt in any store in the NY Metro Area, back then. After all, we were the ECAC CHAMPS!
Let's not even talk about Football under Frank Maloney in cold and snowy Archbold Stadium circa 1974-1978. What were the redeeming qualities of freezing our arses off waiting to see exactly how many touchdowns Penn State would humiliate us with or in watching Tony Dorsett, point to the scoreboard and jeer back at the fans who were booing him after a rare ankle tackle.
LAX was already doing well under Roy Simmons and we'd already begun winning a string of championships. Many of us, though, came from states and towns that were still more than a decade away from fielding their first high school Lacrosse teams, so we were pleased to be winning in SOMETHING, but weren't quite sure what it was we were playing.
With all this mediocrity and obscurity surrounding us, we older alumni and SU fans patienty waited around for SU's major teams to start winning. Few of us have ever deserted our teams, in losing efforts - even if we don't attend many games on campus. We DO "get on them" when they lose and that is the way it should be with schools we expect much more from.
We are NOT archived alumni in a database! We are real alumni and actively engaged in rooting for SU sports; as quiet as some of us may seem, at times. We no less bleed ORANGE blood the same as you do or should.
Excuse me, I have to answer my newest cellphone. I just paid ATT $2.99 for the "Down the Field" Ringtone and another $1.99 to upload an SU screensaver.
This quote, more than any other I have read in the D.O. over the past year, is most disturbing. It's even offensive!
Many of us, who have been out of SU for thirty years or more hope our beloved university thinks more of us than this! If not, they need to stop calling my home at 8 pm, once per week, seeking donations.
Zach...Zach...Zach. The class of 1978 experienced many of the same sports frustrations that are being felt by the present graduating class.
Yes, we had a really exciting year back in 1975, when "Roy's Runts" went to the Final Four, as a Cinderella team. But, believe me...the whipping we took from Kentucky didn't leave us all that proud. We really had no illustrious Basketball tradition, in those days, to point to and say, wait until next year. We were the "George Mason's" in yet another UCLA year!
You couldn't even find an SU tee shirt in any store in the NY Metro Area, back then. After all, we were the ECAC CHAMPS!
Let's not even talk about Football under Frank Maloney in cold and snowy Archbold Stadium circa 1974-1978. What were the redeeming qualities of freezing our arses off waiting to see exactly how many touchdowns Penn State would humiliate us with or in watching Tony Dorsett, point to the scoreboard and jeer back at the fans who were booing him after a rare ankle tackle.
LAX was already doing well under Roy Simmons and we'd already begun winning a string of championships. Many of us, though, came from states and towns that were still more than a decade away from fielding their first high school Lacrosse teams, so we were pleased to be winning in SOMETHING, but weren't quite sure what it was we were playing.
With all this mediocrity and obscurity surrounding us, we older alumni and SU fans patienty waited around for SU's major teams to start winning. Few of us have ever deserted our teams, in losing efforts - even if we don't attend many games on campus. We DO "get on them" when they lose and that is the way it should be with schools we expect much more from.
We are NOT archived alumni in a database! We are real alumni and actively engaged in rooting for SU sports; as quiet as some of us may seem, at times. We no less bleed ORANGE blood the same as you do or should.
Excuse me, I have to answer my newest cellphone. I just paid ATT $2.99 for the "Down the Field" Ringtone and another $1.99 to upload an SU screensaver.
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'07 alum
posted 4/29/08 @ 3:00 PM EST
A sad time for all