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Message: [QUOTE="BKCuse, post: 1311862, member: 3920"] LOL!!!!! That really made me laugh. What country are you talking about? America??? The land of the corporate swine who are looking to screw anyone and everyone to make a couple extra bucks? If Carrier was still a pillar of the Syracuse community I might feel different but we're talking about a corporation that decided it's loyalty was to the almighty dollar over the good people of Syracuse who helped build that company. Losing all those jobs because they could source cheap labor elsewhere was incredibly damaging for the once great city of Syracuse. So let me ask you, why the loyalty to these guys who got more than they ever imagined for their money when they made that deal? Why would you stay loyal to Carrier when they showed minimal loyalty to us? Why stay loyal to Carrier when these clowns never even saw fit to put some friggin' AC in the building with their name on it? SU is in an arms race with Big $ schools in the ACC yet we're not supposed to utilize an incredibly unique revenue stream ? Naming rights for the only on campus Dome of its sort that houses an elite hoops team and (we hope) a soon to be ranked football team... and an elite lax team also. Hey Carrier it's a cold world. You got a helluva ride for 35 years but the stadium is under going a major facelift and we've decided the naming rights are up for bid again. We would love you to stay, we'll give you the courtesy of first negotiation and perhaps even a modest discount because it serves our purposes to keep the name the same for recognition value ... But if you want to stay you gotta pay. This is big time college athletics folks. If we want to be a top program we need every available resource to compete and we can't let some contract entered into 35 years ago, in an era before anyone sold naming rights stand in the way of progress. To me that's not loyalty, it's being a sucker clinging to some false sense of loyalty to a corporation who left town. Now if it's an iron clad contract that we can't possibly break so be it but if it's merely named in honor of a gift w/o any legally binding contract as you say in your above comment then why are we even having this conversation? Let's just open the bidding! [/QUOTE]

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