Reply to thread

Message

[QUOTE="billsin01, post: 1081517, member: 837"]
My concern is that there is absolutely no room for schools to operate in a cost-conscious way AND compete at a high level in the big-time sports. I know that it's certainly ideal to make sure that the way you're spending your money is yielding the best results (on the field, in recruiting, in media attention, etc.) but I'm pretty sure that the best athletic departments at the most successful schools will be spending frivolously for a long, long time. I mean, take the Melo Center and the Dome -- it's no surprise that we've experienced golden ages of success in the two eras dominated first by the Dome (late 80s) and then by the addition of the Melo Center (whenever it opened, I'm too lazy to actually do work and look it up, but the past five years or so).

You look at the teams in between those eras and even with an extremely high profile program and hall-of-fame caliber head coach -- we were really good, but not quite as good or quite as talented as the past five seasons or so.

So we built an expensive, pointless dedicated practice facility (pointless in the sense that there was no particular need for a dedicated basketball facility -- hoops is popular in the inner city in large part due to the fact that you need only shoes, a ball and a hoop) and then reaped significant rewards for it.
[/QUOTE]

Verification

What is a Syracuse fan's favorite color?