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Message: [QUOTE="NJCuse97, post: 2485991, member: 5058"] I think there are plenty who care. I think the SU soccer team holding their own with Georgetown keeps a rivalry alive. I think having a great lax program is of enormous value to SU's brand. Yes I am talking about the men's teams because they too are non-revenue sports. SU has made major strides in soccer and it's showing up on the MLS radar. As for women's athletics, our FH and lax teams should be as good as they can be if we're going to field a team. We are in an extremely competitive conference for those sports as well. Those games are played in fertile recruiting grounds where it is good to spread the brand of Syracuse success. We play in the DMV, the south, and other football battlegrounds and athletes see Syracuse Orange crossing the finish or winning the games. It creates a culture of excellence that extends to the entire AD and high school athletic departments and student athletes see that. If you want to assure your place among the major prestigious institutions of the ACC, you have to bring it somewhere. We are doing it more with lax, soccer, XC, FH, and women's hoops than we are with football and men's basketball right now. I don't think an extra $million in the football till is going to have the same impact it does to three of those other sports and keeps us in the top tier of the ACC, rather than being a Rutgers with an image of perennial losers in all facets of athletics. tuition costs are a big component to this, but even if they weren't, I would still be happy to see SU spend near the top and for the most part getting results. Football will get back god willing, and until then these are the sports showing athletes that they can succeed at Syracuse on a national level. [/QUOTE]

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