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[QUOTE="OttoMets, post: 2193215, member: 716"]
If SU doesn't want to bear the burden of operating a facility, it would be wildly irresponsible for a local municipality to jump in and try to do so.

And I don't know why SU would have it any other way. The university takes in money hand over fist with its current building. Despite a court ruling in the early '80s that limited SU's non-institutional use of the property, they're still booking the occasional concert with no pushback from the city or state while paying no property taxes. Boeheim gets his court time whenever he wants with no interference from the Syracuse Crunch or Muppets on Ice. Babers is in the building whenever he wants to be. SU faculty and staff use the building for lunchtime walking loops ~150 days a year. They're selling law books out of there in August, graduating thousands of students in May, and holding basketball camps in the summer. All with relatively low operating costs and no outside conflicts.

If SU doesn't want to enhance the fan experience and encourage tailgating on its private property when it's raking in a million dollars in revenue every football Saturday, that's SU's problem - not Syracuse's or Onondaga County's or New York State's. If fans don't like it, complain to the school.

The idea of building a shared municipal facility is a bad one.
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