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Message: [QUOTE="Powellfan, post: 5309086, member: 4819"] If there are no surprise teams added to the schedule, it looks like Syracuse essentially traded, High Point for Jacksonville - feels like a wash Army for Harvard - given the team's history, this feels like a slight step down for SU, but probably not by much. I think Army will be one of the more talented teams next year, but Harvard will have some good players as well (and benefit of Ivy League boost). Hobart for Towson - this is a huge step up (no disrespect for the Statesmen intended). Towson of course was a tournament team last year that gave SU all they could handle for a half last season. They return some very good players and should be in the hunt for another NCAA tournament boost. Hobart I have to imagine will struggle again next year. Taken together this seems like a harder schedule than last year. The Towson game on short rest following Vermont makes me nervous, but it's also a game that SU should win (on paper), and both games are at home. Obviously you can't take a teams performance from one year and transcribe it onto the next (UVA could take a step back, UNC could take a step forward, surprise teams will emerge, etc). But on the whole this seems like a very competitive schedule on the whole. I am sure they will take some guff for only having four true road games (and a neutral site game vs Cornel), but it is what it is at this point. If teams are willing to come to the Dome for early season games, I don't think Syracuse should actively turn them down to make sure they are playing an even amount of home and away games, so posters on FanLax will feel a sense of contentment. As opposed to some other years, if the schedule breaks the way Xtreme has laid out, no month long period of away games, which is also really nice. Cornell and Duke might be the only multi-game stretch that is away from the Dome. [/QUOTE]

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