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[QUOTE="Jersey Orange, post: 467815, member: 979"]
I completely agree that Syracuse has a "donor" issue which results in a capital shortfall re facilities.  I also completely agree that other school's do fund their facilities primarily through friends of the program.  The issue is that Syracuse's facilities are lacking and it makes it very difficult to recruit against top-35 caliber programs - an issue that I believe that Syracuse created  for themselves by not properly investing in the program during the early Pasqualoni years.
 
However, the facilities shortfall exists and it is a problem.  Syracuse will soon be playing a difficult ACC and OOC schedule.  They can either wait for the FB program to come up with the cash for 3, 4, 5 years (during a period where conference realignment puts FB performance/commitment at a premium) or they can be creative and do things differently through a mix of third-party financing / general account loan to the AD / sponsorships etc.  My preference is that they do the latter - recognizing that this is not the norm in college athletics - or increase the risk of being left out when the next round of realignment arrives.
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