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[QUOTE="sutomcat, post: 2230422, member: 27"]
A couple of things...

1) The NCAA is on record as strongly preferring to host its championship events on college campuses.
2) The NCAA tries to rotate its championship events to all areas of the country and the only possible facility that could be used to host a Final Four in the Northeast is the Carrier Dome.
3) The boom in hotel construction in CNY helps address the hotel issue.  Still work to be done here but it is great to see the Hotel Syracuse back up and running and already announcing plans for a major expansion.
4) I don't think the idea to have a hotel next to the Dome is specifically tied to Syracuse someday hosting Final Fours.  It think that would be more of a way to raise funds for the renovation.  The hope is that a hotel chain would pay a substantial fee for the right to build next to the Dome.

I hope SU has been in contact with the NCAA to see what changes would be needed to get the Dome to a place where it could host a Final Four (and to confirm that would consider Syracuse).  If the NCAA indicated they were forthcoming to it, that could be taken into account when getting funding for the project.  I assume this has already happened.  Would love to know what the NCAA said.
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