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That's definitely true. I made a donation to the Athletics Opportunity Fund on Feb 1. I renewed my tickets on March 26. I made another donation to the Athletics Opportunity Fund on April 19. All of these donations show up on my account when I go to "Make a Gift", so they have records of them...

Yeah, mine is missing a couple donations too. What's weird is that if I click on "Make a Gift", the year to date giving number is correct. But on the donor ranking page, none of my non-ticket related donations are included.

I love the idea of regional divisions and the restoration of regional rivalries within an overarching "Super League". Basically taking college football back to what it once was. But I don't think that will ever happen. The whole idea is predicated on the top echelon of college football...

1) Since the last few years of the Pasqualoni era, the narrative on Syracuse has been that "you can't recruit there." I guess I get the concept of trying to use a gimmick offense to attract talent, but that doesn't work. I know this because Dino couldn't parlay "Orange is the New Fast" and a...

There are 1172 people in the All-Conference level. So the Top 6 levels appear to have 2,135 people. But as you point out, this is all going to change as people make new donations for 2024 tickets and possibly additional donations to try to increase their standing for seat selection.

¿Por qué no los dos?

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Thanks. Not what I hoped but it is what it is. I've got piggyback aisle seats in the lower level, so it's probably unlikely I'll be able to find anything similar.

I guess I thought that the whole "donor rank and priority point ranking" for reseating applied only to existing season ticket holders. In other words, they were going to prioritize all the people who held seats in 2023 and let them pick new seats, and only after that process was complete would...

Yeah, I never bought the narrative that simply hiring Dan Mullen would sellout the done next year. Casual fans might not know who Fran Brown is, but most of them don’t know who Dan Mullen is either. And even the ones that do know have been beaten down so much by 20 years of bad to mediocre...

No SEC team selected for the playoff would be almost enough to get me to watch Finebaum. Almost.

You forgot the part where the jersey that we hung in the rafters was made out of Hefty tall kitchen garbage bags

Let me make sure I understand how this works. From what I gather there are 4 fairly easy steps: 1) Make up an imaginary scenario that is not grounded in any verified, factual reality 2) Extrapolate that made up scenario into a follow-on imaginary result of step 1 3) Repeat several more times...

This was…oddly specific

I don't know anything one way or the other as far as what happened or didn't with Mullen. But I do know this: His NCAA violations, and the show cause order, were publicly available information that literally every college football fan knew about 3 years ago. There's literally no way that...

I think people are overlooking the fact that Chesney has proven 2 things: 1) He has proven to be able to build a program. Not "rebuild"..."build". Assumption had 2 winning seasons in 20 years before he got there...he never had a losing season there as head coach. Holy Cross stunk before he...

I liked the idea of Mullen, but I was never sold on the idea that we would sell out all of next season based on him coming here. If you had asked 1000 random people entering the Dome on Saturday who Dan Mullen was, less than 20% would even know. And if you asked where he last coached, less...

I have no knowledge one way or the other, but the Eagles are likely a SB team again this year. I can’t see him leaving the Eagles en route to the Super Bowl, and I can’t see us waiting until February to hire a new coach.

I'm with you 100% on the recruiting concerns. I guess the potential counter to that is that a lot of our depth right now is guys with mid-major and FCS offers, but the difference with Chesney is he's got a proven ability to develop and coach those type of guys to compete against FBS talent. If...

I've seen Holy Cross play a few times over the last 3 or 4 years, mostly against FBS competition. Chesney gets everything out of his roster. I'd have no concerns about his ability to scheme, or player development. My biggest concerns would be recruiting at this level, being able to navigate...

Not to me. I'd much rather gamble on Chesney than Tony White.

In coaching circles, he's very well respected...by people who also coach football for a living at a high level. And he's also made Holy Cross a perennial playoff team, when they'd only made the playoffs twice prior to his arrival. As a gameday coach, and from a player development standpoint...

If they're trying to influence the outcome of a game, I'm not sure that 2 points in the 2nd quarter is the way to go about it. If they're crooked, then they're really bad at it.

They're not crooked, they're just bad. The ACC has terrible officiating, and we happened to benefit from it yesterday.

This is what’s known as the ZFG offense

I'd argue that they didn't let him go in '21 because they did take football seriously. SU went all-in with an enormous contract on a coach that nobody in college football thought we could retain after a 10-3 season. The fact that it stuck us with an unaffordable buyout was a direct result of...

I think he brings a lot of positives. Great game planning, has a track record of success at previously bad programs, he's young and has ties to the northeast so may be less likely to bolt for CA or FL. I'd really only have two concerns with him. My biggest concern is that he's spent his...

I agree with you generally, but one thing Dino doesn't do well off the field is fan engagement. Every press conference he's ever given has been non-answers. Practices are closed to media for the most part. He despises things like Fan Fest and the spring game. I guess all of these would be...

You only call that fake if you know our offense can’t score from the 30. We’re never in that position even against FCS teams

It was Farmer. But I’m not sure what he said while he was hitting #21 in the face.

Was this cameraman at the tailgate?

So, there are 712 student athletes receiving average financial aid of $30,242 each. That means the AD pays $21.5M to the university for cost of attendance. Add in Babers's reported salary, and almost 2/3 of the ACC money is gone before any team travel, recruiting expenses, equipment expenses...

I don't know exactly. There are 85 football, 13 mens basketball, and 10 mens soccer. Add a few more men's scholarships for other sports, and say it's 125 for men. They have to offer an equal amount for women under Title IX, so there are around 250. At $50k each, that's an expense of $12.5M...

A lot of the cost is scholarships, and that puts SU at a disadvantage to other schools because the value of the scholarships is well above the conference average.

Genuine question...was it ever good? My knowledge and history of NYS HS football only goes back to the late 80s when I played in Section 4. I left NY in the mid-90s, so I don't know what it's like now, but when I played it seemed none of the coaches in Section 4 were aware that the forward...

Chesney is a great coach, there's really no denying that. He has made immediate improvements at each stop in his career, and then maintained success. Holy Cross this year is a little bit of a disappointment, but they still have a winning record. We could do much worse than him as a head...

I mean this sincerely when I say I respect and admire your commitment to the cause of an air raid offense in the dome. And I understand the reasons why. I think 20-25 years ago, it would have worked, but I don't think it will now. Turn on almost any game right now, and both teams are running...

This is so on point. I've heard and read a lot of comments that Dino needs to go, and that "the University" needs to do more for football. I've also heard, and read, a lot of comments that people are dropping season tickets and pulling monetary support from the program. Those two things are...

Good. Hopefully they never offer to have us play a home game there again.

I don't think Dino ever really wanted to be here. It's the only way I can wrap my head around what's happened over the last 8 years. He came here seeing it as a stepping stone into the P5. Won a few games (mostly due to Dungey), had a few SportsCenter highlight speeches, and became a low-rent...

I completely get where you’re coming from and in some ways agree with you. I haven’t decided yet if I’ll contribute to NIL, but I’m leaning yes even though I don’t like a lot about it. To some of your points above though, the logic of NIL is easier to understand when you look at it through...

Point taken, but I guess my point was that long term success doesn't drive attendance at SU. People come out for "event" games. We complain about it on here as if it's a recent phenomenon, but it's always been true at SU. The only time we've ever even come close to selling out an entire...

I'm not sure about that. From 1987-2001, we had 15 consecutive winning seasons. In 2001, there were only 4 teams with that many or more consecutive winning seasons...Syracuse, Michigan, FSU, and Nebraska. In 2001, we had gone to bowls in 12 of the prior 15 seasons, in a time when there were...

This isn't directed at any one poster, but more a comment on the fact that there seems to be widespread misunderstanding of how NIL can be used and who is responsible for it. 1) The university itself is prohibited from and does not get involved in soliciting, collecting, managing, or disbursing...

Given that this is UNC's best season in most of its fanbase's lifetime, I suspect two things are true. One, they have a lot fewer unsold seats available at their box office. Two, their fans are a lot less willing to sell their tickets on Ticketmaster or StubHub. Since those are the only way...

This is absolutely true. I've actually had people that live in Syracuse ask me why I buy season tickets, because you can just buy tickets to the games you want and sit wherever you want to.

Syracuse has improved it's athletics fundraising dramatically over the last 5 years. Dramatically. I give Wildhack a ton of credit in this regard, because it's not easy to do at Syracuse. I would argue that our financial position "relative" to the big schools is better now than it was...

My metric for success in football is to play well enough that the basketball-onlies stay on their side of the forum for an entire season.

This. I have a group of guys I've gone to games with for almost 20 years. We travel from all over the country to meet up in Syracuse once a year. We've lost a lot more of those games than we've won, but we still go every year. It's a chance to catch up with old friends, drink beer in a...

He's proven that everywhere he goes improves quickly. Holy Cross had 2 playoff appearances all time before he got there, and he's made the playoffs in 4 of his 5 complete seasons. Still, it's a huge jump from FCS to P5, and one we won't gamble on. I am surprised he hasn't gotten a look from a...