The Quest For Toronto - Week Ten - Troy Nunes Is An Absolute Magician

The Quest For Toronto - Week Ten

by Sean Keeley on Nov 10, 2009 8:07 PM EST Comment 14 comments

At 3-6, the Orange are officially out of 2nd chances. Three more wins needed to become bowl eligible and only three games left.

Need some motivation, Syracuse? Bud Poliquin made a note the other day that Rutgers and Temple, both of whom will go bowling this year, are laughing at the Syracuse program that used to shellac the inside of the Dome with their innards (too much?). Then I happened to come across these 2009-2010 bowl game predictions today and who do I see squaring off in the International Bowl, the destination we so desperately crave?

Projection: Rutgers vs. Temple

My immediate reaction upon reading this?

Are you kidding me sound bite Harold & Kumar Go To White Castle sound bites

This aggression will not stand! I will not sit idly by while these two should-be doormats play in OUR bowl game.

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Yes, the Quest-O-Meter is as low as it's been all year and it teeters on the brink of failure. But I submit to you two quotes from practice today. One from WR Donte Davis and one from DL Anthony "Psycho" Perkins on what it would mean to go to a bowl game this year. If these don't keep your bowl-eligible fire stoked then you best join 98% of the SU student population and jump off the bandwagon now.

Donte:

When you get to college you always dreams of going to a bowl game and winning a bowl game and national championship and if you go to the NFL, you want to win the Super Bowl, so that’s definitely been one of my goals and it’s still one of my goals to make a bowl game and win a bowl game so that’s more pressure.

Anthony:

It would be a dream come true and something I watched ever since I was a little kid seeing the guys get to the bowls from Syracuse and not just for me, it would be great for the city and for the school itself and I think it would rejuvenate the fans and especially the student body to be, alright the team is back , it’s OK to don Syracuse stuff and come to the game and hopefully people will not just say thank God basketball season is here, they realize there is still a little bit of football left in us.

Well f***img said, Perkins.

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It's a good thing

I hate Canada.

by Russianator on Nov 11, 2009 12:17 AM EST reply actions 0 recs

Rutgers: Ontario's Team

By the way… why can’t we just “encourage” Villanova to go D-1A. Doesn’t that solve the 9-team issue pretty solidly? Heck, Georgetown as a D-1AA program too.

If they really cared about the Big East, they would sacrifice their pride and make the jump.

Throw Syracuse a bone to get out of the basement….

by ezcuse on Nov 11, 2009 10:01 AM EST reply actions 0 recs

That's been

my answer for three years now. Literally solves everything the Big East needs solved. 9th team, Philly market, already Big East affiliated.

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by Sean Keeley on Nov 11, 2009 10:45 AM EST up reply actions 0 recs

That

Makes too much sense, so it will never happen.

by Russianator on Nov 11, 2009 11:24 AM EST up reply actions 0 recs

Of course

it would have happened already

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by Sean Keeley on Nov 11, 2009 11:29 AM EST up reply actions 0 recs

It's a good thing

That the BE kicked Temple out a few years ago. I never understood how the BE got stuck with a crappy football program (that’s now respectable) but couldn’t get the respectable temple hoop program into the league.

by Russianator on Nov 11, 2009 12:38 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs

And people think we have the clout to force Notre Dame in?

We couldn’t persuade TEMPLE!

Of course… one OTHER option would be to kick Notre Dame out completely… add in Northeastern as our Boston presence. They can upgrade to 1-A in football.

by ezcuse on Nov 11, 2009 12:43 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs

Get both G'Town and Villanova.

Add Army and Navy as football only.

Now you have 12, with only two scragglers.

North division:

Syracuse, Army, UConn, Rutgers, Villanova, and Pitt

South division:

Cincy, WVU, Louisville, So. Florida, Navy, and G’Town

Mandatory annual matchups are: Pitt/WVU (traditional), Army/Navy (traditional), Nova/GTown (conversion from 1-AA), So. Fla/Rutgers (emerging rivalry), Cincy/UConn (emerging rivalry), Syracuse/Louisville (emerging rivalry of futility). This alternates Home/Away to balance divisional unbalance.

Plus, two other games against school from other division: 4 home/ 4 away/ 4 OOC.

by ezcuse on Nov 11, 2009 12:37 PM EST reply actions 0 recs

We need more low-end schools in the Big East

Coach P used to have 2-3 guaranteed wins every year in Temple and Rutgers, and often Pitt. By 2002, that eroded. Now it is undone completely.

I don’t like adding schools like Memphis that would impact basketball. That is our bread and butter. Army and Navy are independents and should be independents, so adding them as football only makes some sense.

Villanova and G’Town can lose games for the BIg East. Unless they become good, of course. Gotta think that they make more money as losing 1-A programs than mediocre 1-AA programs.

by ezcuse on Nov 11, 2009 12:41 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs