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[QUOTE="Cusefan95, post: 5098698, member: 173"]
One thing is possible to predict with close to near certainty - there is no chance Syracuse would have basketball in a basketball only conference and football somewhere else.  ZIP.  ZILCH. ZERO.

Anyone proposing that is a clueless idiot, and I wouldn’t trust their prediction on anything - including that the sun will rise tomorrow.  Any Syracuse fan pining for such an outcome (for basketball to end up in a conference which has almost nothing in common with our old home other than the name) is completely detached from reality.  There is NO WAY Syracuse can sustain a football program without being in a major conference (UConn only does it by running an athletic department at a huge loss, something Syracuse as a private university cannot do).  And there is no way a major conference would take Syracuse football while basketball played elsewhere.

And if that particular brand of fan is a basketball-only - how long do you think it would take a university with no or lower level (low attendance) football to look at a big, obsolete football stadium in a prime location on campus before they asked -“Why is this here, exactly?”  The death of football at Syracuse would likely have some very negative trickle down impacts on basketball.
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