Will you still get season tickets next year? That is the biggest question.
Yes, this isn't unfolding in the ideal way and I can understand your anger. But you yourself just stated you would still go. The university will hear your complaints, but here is the deal (and they are right), what else are you going to do?
It IS the only horse in town. And if the university and the ACC can make this an "event", increase revenue and garner publicity, believe me (and I know you are aware), it is happening.
We've sold our soul for big time athletics. As Puff Daddy said, "Mo' Money, Mo Problems".
You can look back at my record in supporting the efforts to be "Syracuse's team" before we were "NY's team". I'm a proponent of keeping more football games at Syracuse (again, see my postings in the past). But this is something that features Syracuse, features our program and puts us front and center for the college bball world.
My complaint, if I were in your shoes, wouldn't be whether this happens. It would be getting a bigger compensatory package than anything more than a "sorry, we understand, but we couldn't pass up this opportunity. Here is a food voucher".
Just because they messed up the process of implementing this, doesn't mean they should not do it.
I respect you Mike but I don't understand how any rationale person thinks this move makes sense.
I haven't seen a single good reason for doing it but there are a dozen compelling reasons not to. Probably more. No need to repeat them.
To answer your question, I will buy season tickets again next year. I would probably even buy season tickets if they permanently changed the configuration of the Dome and left the court in the middle of the football field, surrounded by 2 rows of fans and 50 yards of nothing (what a spectacle for television!).
That doesn't make it right to steal from me. And assuming this happens, I
will have had my seat stolen and replaced with one of significantly lesser value. The people that think otherwise are either incredibly naive or lack any understanding of basic math. As Bees says, it is physically impossible to provide me with a seat that is better or approximately the same as the one I bought 10 days ago (it was actually renewed several months ago).
Assuming this happens, am I going to give as much money to the university as I normally do? For athletics and academics? Will I buy extra season tickets for football just to support the program? Will I give as much money with my next donation for the IPF than I was originally planning to?
Again, assuming this move happens, in the end, I will probably give the same amount of money to SU, but it will go to the LC Smith College of Engineering and Computer Science instead of the athletic department.
This isn't the first time local supporters of the athletic department have been slighted. The games at MetLife, the attempts to move ACC basketball games to MSG, the dropping/scaling down of the ED scrimmage, the dramatic scaling down of the national letter of intent reception, the restructuring of benefits for Orange Club members that always ends up taking away things instead of adding things... The list of things the athletic department has done over the last 10 years to discourage fans is disturbingly long.
If you want my money, you should act like you care about me.
