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Message: [QUOTE="NJCuse97, post: 2613203, member: 5058"] Marketing to NYC was not in an attempt to fill the Dome. You have entirely missed my point. Do you think Pitt was invited into the ACC because of all the full seats they have? TV is the game now. You don't have to drive 4 hours to watch a game on TV. Winning is important, but Memphis wins, as does Boise St. and for that matter, NDSU or Mount Union. Why aren't they getting big money in Power 5 conferences or monster TV deals? The answer is ratings and size of market. The more SU can claim the largest market in the US, the more it can command inclusion and large TV revenue. Houston is a big market (#8 in the US), that is the reason they get mentioned in conference expansions. Philly is #4 and that is why people keep trying to resuscitate Temple. Boston is #9 and that is why BC was invited. VT sued the ACC, but was invited over us due to politics. Those politics trumped our market because the ACC didn't have faith in our grip on the #1 TV market. We kept neutral and as such were not plaintiff or defendant in any lawsuits. The ACC still saw the market value and jumped to invite us for 2013 because our profile better matched theirs than the other options, and because they didn't want to wait for the B1G to beat them to it. The B1G immediately invited Rutgers. I suppose that was because they fill the stadium and win. You mention marketing to a three hour radius of Syracuse to get seats filled, because the NYC area has too many other options. You not only suggest that we should throw in the towel and not market to the largest metropolitan area in the US, which happens to be 4 hours from our stadium, but neglect to recognize that if we can't get the NYC market, as you say, that the same 3 hour radius overlaps that same 3 hour radius of NYC by 2 hours, or in other words, by your strategy we should only market a 1.5 hour radius of Syracuse because otherwise we are equidistant to "better" or "professional" markets in Buffalo, Toronto, NYC, and Boston to name a few. According to you, when given a choice to go to a good college game on Saturday or an NFL game on Sunday, the entire 8.5 million in NYC will choose the NFL, forget that they can't easily get tickets, or may like a change of pace. Our attendance at hoops games exceeds the Knicks by a lot on a per game average, but does that mean that our hoops program has a higher income or TV value? Attendance and even success will not guarantee the all important TV numbers we need to enhance. Ask ND if they did better before or after the NBC deal and if NBC would have come to them if they had a very good following in South Bend only. [/QUOTE]

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