I never knew I had anything in common with the stork. This could have been written by me, except both my mom and dad went to Syracuse, and it was my daughter, not son, who graduated from Rutgers. Remember, Syracuse is an expensive private school with just average academics. Almost no one from the “frozen tundra” attends school there or has been an alumni for the last 40 years. The Syracuse fan base is made up of two groups, the alumni who generally are from NJ, downstate NY, Long Island, suburban Philadelphia, and the locals. It is the alumni from NJ and near-by who are the Rutgers haters. They are more likely to live in your neighborhood, than in the frozen tundra.