Look, I hate Syracuse with a burning passion, but glancing over at the Syracuse board every once in a while, and then returning here, the whole thing just seems ridiculous. It's not the hatred that's ridiculous. It's the fact that we don't play anymore, and more ridiculously, the fact that some of us (most of these people are SU fans, but there are some over here, too) pretend that we don't want to play. I get that there is a level of contempt that doesn't exist to the same extent in other rivalries, but still, there is an electricity to Syracuse-UConn games that the manufactured BS in the ACC doesn't provide. Syracuse fans can thumb their nose at the supposedly irrelevant mid-major we've become, and pretend that we're just another opponent on the schedule that's not worth the time of day, but Villanova and Providence don't provoke the spontaneous reactions of hostility and bitterness that UConn does over there. I took a ton of satisfaction in sending Syracuse to the ACC with a loss, and I bet they took equal satisfaction in sweeping the defending national champs the year before. If we happen to meet in the tournament this season, it will be as exhilarating - one way or the other - as any sporting event could ever be, and it would be that way because of a deep-rooted history that a couple of "beat Duke" t-shirts just can't replicate. Hell, Louisville and Kentucky managed to figure it out, and that rivalry might carry even more vitriol than this one. Stop 100 neutral college basketball fans in the street, and 98 of them will tell you Syracuse and UConn should play. It's really that simple. /rant
