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Message: [QUOTE="HoustonCuse, post: 20159, member: 87"] I noticed it too. Plus what a great way to eliminate a big home court advantage. Unless, for instance, Duke uses MSG as their home game... I suppose that is unlikely but can't be ruled out. Overall this leads to larger questions: The entire "Orange in the Apple" and "New York's College Team" marketing campaigns. What is the purpose? If you agree that the ACC or Big 10 was the right place for SU then Dr. Gross could be looked at as a genius because the entire NYC thrust was then just a campaign to convince other conferences that the NYC market belonged to SU. It clearly worked if you look at all the NYC references in the ACC conference call and the fact that they snubbed Rutgers and UConn, both of which are closer to NYC. So, if the entire prupose of this was to make an SU-NYC connection to ensure major conferences wanted us, then as soon as the new ACC TV deal is signed then we can abandon the whole effort. At that point, the university can save the money and will have little incentive to play games at MSG. If the purpose of the campaign is of longer duration, then there will be significant effort to get us into MSG and Barclays for basketball just like they are trying to get into Meadowlands and Yankee Standium for football. I hope this is the case, but the question becomes "how much NYC is enough NYC". Many teams play a game or two at MSG in the preseason, it doesn't make them NYC's College Team. SU loses between 2 and 5 games at MSG with the loss of the BET and St. John's games. How will this be made up? I'm in favor of an "Old East" preseason event that gets us two MSG games against former Big East rivals, plus a preseason NIT, CvsC type event. I am not thrilled with giving up bigtime games at the dome. This will be interesting to say the least. [/QUOTE]

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