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Message: [QUOTE="Orangepace, post: 4755848, member: 322"] The thing is, the Haese facts in isolation and the way you present them are factually accurate and the logic is fair. That said, we live in an era where presence matters and save for a few seasons, Cuse is trying to bounce back into relevancy. The school used to control the NYC market as much as it could be controlled from a college perspective. During the down years, other schools were able to make inroads in the gap Cuse left because the program wasnt relevant on a national scale any longer. Where I think your argument misses is that it takes a leader and a visionary to see the opportunity for those deals and signing up for them. He gambled that the football program would be important enough that it’d garner some non-diehards in the largest market in the world (3hrs away from campus), to pay attention, if not attend the games. He’s trying to re-grab the market and doubled down on Babers making it happen. If it works out, having those games in NYC could actually help in the long term stability of the revived program. If those games were in the Dome, I couldn’t reasonably argue that it’d have the same economic impact to the program. You’re allowed to beat him up for taking the gamble and you may be right. I applaud him for taking the handle, because I see the vision and as a Syracuse fan, I hope his vision doesn’t stray to far from reality. Where we differ is that I disagree with kicking a guy over-and-over for having a vision, which may be unpopular as it isn’t the tried and true path, without waiting to see if it plays out. I am a firm believer though that if his vision does play out, Cuse jumps from an afterthought in the SEC/B1G consolidation, to a maybe. That’s a gamble that’s worth making when you’re a bottom feeder like the program has been for two decades. Sometimes you just have to swing for the fences, no matter how low the chances are. The only shot guaranteed to miss is the one that isn’t taken. [/QUOTE]

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