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Old 12-05-2016, 03:41 PM
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Me thinks we had a similar thread/topic concerning the WVB side. Although it is great to have a rivalry, one game does not make a season.

It fires the fans up once in about 30 games (if you play H-W in the same season then 2/30 in a season). Playing in a conference where it all matters should enable both fans and players to realize that all games inside the conference has a direct bearing on the season and possibly its' outcome for post season play. Failing to understand that is a fundamental flaw in the premise "only a rivalry matters".

Now if we could look at this in another way, select any team in the BE, and you could make the case that any team you pick would be a rivalry game. AND I'm not talking about the recent snub (if you want to call it something). I'm talking about the past history with this program for most of those teams ... it goes back generations and some great and not so great outcomes against most of them.

Now that is a series of 'rivalry games' within a conference that would up the term "rivalry". Again just based upon events and history from years ago over many years and NOT the animosity generated within the last 5-6 years.

That would be a unique situation combining old program rivalry and conference rivalry in one package. We don't have that.

Failing that we must direct our attention to the intra-conference rivalries we do have. AND can you not say that some of those interactions have instilled 'rivalry' into the contest? Can you say St L?, How about St J?, AND RI to name just three!
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