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Message: [QUOTE="calorange, post: 2732958, member: 1794"] Outside of WVU, Cal and South Carolina, since UNC and UVA are the flagship state universities for their respective states, I might argue that your list of road games suggests this scheduling is merely a way of bringing the game to where it's convenient for large concentrations of the school's fans to attend a game without having to schlep all the way to Chapel Hill or Charlottesville. Winthrop = Charlotte Elon = Greensboro-Winston Salem (although its just down the road from Chapel Hill) VCU = Richmond GWash = NoVa (What do you guys have against ODU?) As a private school, there isn't a similarly large SU alumni base in the Buffalo/Rochester/Albany markets (and there isn't even a D1 school in Rochester) to reap the benefits of scheduling similarly to UNC and UVA. The closest equivalent outreach to the Syracuse alumni base involves SU going to MSG and Georgetown, which interestingly enough, is what SU tries to do. [/QUOTE]