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[QUOTE="Ward, post: 1753559, member: 1958"]
Basketball facilities are great, but are primarily a result of an extraordinary gift from Melo. It isn't practical to view it as a product of a steady stream of donors that can be relied on to keep up in the arms race moving forward. Look at how much of a struggle it was to get the IPF in football and reality is it still isn't really in the same hemisphere as the Alabama, Ohio State, Michigan etc. and they are probably in the process right now of upgrading their facilities even further.

The Dome has prestige because of history and the big/loud crowds, do those loud crowds keep coming at the rate they do if the team isn't as good due to top players signing at other schools where they can get more money? The recruits are human and more often than not if I have one school saying we can give you ~15-25k while you're here and another saying we can give you $30-50k they'll take the offer with more money. Prestige of a program can swing both ways in the pendulum pretty quickly.

Syracuse has great fan support and alumni base, the issue comes with it just being a numbers game.

[B]Also, as an fyi so my stance isn't misinterpreted, I have 0 problem paying players. My basis for argument isn't that I only support approaches that won't hurt SU, it's that this approach would really bust open the gap between the top handful and everyone else and I think would have negative downstream impact on the sport. SU is just a great test case to use that we can all speak informed on. [/B]
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