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[QUOTE="Btstimpy, post: 792372, member: 2043"]
As an outsider from a fellow ACC school,  I'd like to see Syracuse add baseball since baseball is one of the ACC's strongest sports and it's getting more and more airtime on ESPN every year.   But I can see the interest in ice hockey given Syracuse's geographic region and the fact that Syracuse already has women's ice hockey.
 
To add baseball you'd probably have to add equivalent women's sports to comply with Title IX, and you'd want to maximize scholarships to make whatever you add as competitive as possible.  So I did an analysis on NCAA Division 1 scholarship limits and came up with:
 
Baseball   with 11.7 maximum scholarships
 
Women's Golf  with 6.0 maximum scholarships
Women's Fencing with 5.0 maximum scholarships
 
I've read somewhere that the ACC is planning to add Fencing since Notre Dame, Boston College, Duke, and North Carolina have fencing.   The current ACC rule is to have 4 schools sponsor a sport before the Conference will sponsor a Championship.  If Syracuse adds fencing, then the number would be 5.
 
These 3 sports could be added and fit right into the ACC. 
 
To add Men's Ice Hockey it's a different calculation:
 
Men's Ice Hockey with 18.0 maximum scholarships
 
Women's Gymnastics with 12.0 maximum scholarships
Women's Golf with 6.0 maximum scholarships
 
When Pitt joined, the ACC was planning to sponsor Women's gymnastics and hold a Championship since UNC, NCState, Maryland, and Pitt would make 4 members sponsoring the sport.  Now that Maryland is leaving that's been put on hold.  But if Syracuse added it, then it would become a possibility again. 
 
Of course with any of these there would need to be facilities and access.  Would there be a golf course that a Syracuse team could use?
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