Reply to thread

Message

[QUOTE="Fly Rodder, post: 2193258, member: 2133"]
Disagree.  The biggest issue with municipal/publicly funded sports arenas are that they A) sit vacant the vast majority of the time and B) pro teams leave.  SU isn't leaving.  Having a purpose built multi-function arena solves one problem as the SU football team doesn't need something that seats 100k.  Basketball and football only have 27 home dates, it's not terribly difficult to coordinate around 27 days which are mostly September through March.  Instead of trying to build one arena without impacting anything, which adds significant costs, they could take that extra money build two and probably save money: one in conjunction with the county and one for campus events.  A smaller sports arena (maybe 8-10k seats or fewer) can replace the dome  and it can serve as the home for lacrosse, women's basketball, soccer, track and field, walking loops, etc., and be attached to Archibold.  Moving the much larger dome and associated parking lots frees up valuable real estate for academic and residential buildings (some of which can even be leased to ESF as they are growing and constrained by the cemetery).

But that would require some comprises and the city, county, state, and university to play nice.
[/QUOTE]

Verification

What is a Syracuse fan's favorite color?