SU-GT Have Signed A 4-Year Home & Home

[stlorange]

I hope someone reads this news to Patrick Ewing!!!

Don't be an ass, have some class.

 

[orange79]

Agree. I would not have done the deal without something that.

Yep - there had better be some language in the contract about that. If not, Oh Lord

 

[UnknownOrange]

Love to see when our Rookie posters catch on to that phrase

Haha ouch. Rookie comment hurts. I've been saying this since I can remember. My age cripples me - unfair! Haha

 

[SU2NASA]

Wouldn't it be way more entertaining to beat them in front of 33K at the Dome and thousands of SU fans at the Verizon Center than not play them at all? I mean aren't games like that why we love college basketball?

I'd rather see their campus taken over by the undead who crack open the skulls of their douchebag students and feast on the delicious goo inside.

 

[TexanMark]

NASA: Not sure from your post but do you have issues with Georgetown?

 

[OrangeXtreme]

Chris McManus‏@ChrisESPNCNY5 mins
Daryl Gross says no mandatory donations or 3 game packages if SU fans want to go to the Verizon Center. It was a sticking point in the deal.

 

[Garbs]

meh

 

[CousCuse]

Nice. We got past this league transition with Gtown in basketball, why can't we do the same with WV and Rutgers in football? DRbartle?

 

[rrlbees]

Nice. We got past this league transition with Gtown in basketball, why can't we do the same with WV and Rutgers in football? DRbartle?

Rutgirls? Lol.

 

[CousCuse]

Rutgirls? Lol.

Yes , Rutgirls.

 

[dasher]

Yes , Rutgirls.

why would we want to play them? They have never been a rival. And please don't put them in the same class as west virginia. We have history with them.

 

[rrlbees]

Yes , Rutgirls.

Never a rival and all we'd be doing is legitimizing their existence.

 

[orange79]

Yes , Rutgirls.

Rutgirls?

 

[pfister1]

Chris McManus‏@ChrisESPNCNY5 mins
Daryl Gross says no mandatory donations or 3 game packages if SU fans want to go to the Verizon Center. It was a sticking point in the deal.

More kudos to DG.

Gtown(2013): Hey what you say we sign a home and home deal?
DG: Are you going to package our games with your other dreck opponents or require a donation to purchase available tix?
Gtown(2013): Well of course, we need to use your drawing power to our advantage.
DG: Go yourself.

Gtown(2014): Hey we've reconsidered. We'll withdraw the stupid restrictions on tix sales.
DG: Get off your knees you pieces of crap. As long as you are going to take care of Cuse Nation we'll gladly come to your place...kick your a$$e$ and steal your recruits.

 

[ORANGEsPHK]

Urgh. What is the deal with this board's obsession with Rutgers? Urgh, I say again.

 

[KaiserUEO]

Nice. We got past this league transition with Gtown in basketball, why can't we do the same with WV and Rutgers in football? DRbartle?

As the resident Board Pontiff for playing football in New Jersey, let me state for the record that the only time Syracuse should be thinking about putting Rutgers on the schedule...is if Giants Stadium suddenly refuses to allow anyone other than the Giants and its jv team to play football there.

And that ain't happening.

And then they should offer to army at Yankee Stadium instead.

 

[Jake]

This deal has been in the works for a bit. The sticking point has been the ticket limitations and site locations. Great job by Gross demanding that the game not be tied to ticket packages. That should guarantee us 4 home games. . I think we wanted an MSG game...

 

[Orange Barrel]

This is good news. I can't wait to see our 2013 Final Four banner raised at the Verizon Center.

 

[SmilinBob]

Nova, St. Johns and GT. Would adding UConn be too much? Once those 4 are added the current and ex Big East/AAC basketball wise would be officially closed for me as I couldn't care less about the others.

 

[orange79]

Nova, St. Johns and GT. Would adding UConn be too much? Once those 4 are added the current and ex Big East/AAC basketball wise would be officially closed for me as I couldn't care less about the others.

Yes. It would be too much.

 

[cuseguy]

Yes. It would be too much.

Might be able to squeeze in a game with UConn in the odd years we don't play the aforementioned 3.

But I think it would have to be at MSG.

 

[OrangeXtreme]

Nova, St. Johns and GT. Would adding UConn be too much? Once those 4 are added the current and ex Big East/AAC basketball wise would be officially closed for me as I couldn't care less about the others.

In 2015 we'll have Georgetown on the road, Villanova in MSG, a game in the BiG/ACC Challenge, and we're playing in the "Battle for Atlantis".

Let's not get carried away here.

 

[Col. Bleep]

Yes. It would be too much.

This is the MUST have game...and as much as I hate missing the opportunity to pound G-town for two seasons...it was a great accomplishment to get those #$&^!'s to drop the ticket restrictions.

One thing we could try down the road that would be a big NYC draw is an "Old School Showdown."
Christmas week...the Orange, Pitt, G-town and UConn come into the Garden or Barclay's.
The Orange play G-town...Pitt plays UConn.
Ideally, SU & Pitt would swap opponents in another game...but let's not push it.
A simple doubleheader would sell out and create big media buzz.

 

[SmilinBob]

Yes. It would be too much.

You wouldn't rotate St. Johns and UConn in the future?

 

[orange79]

You wouldn't rotate St. Johns and UConn in the future?

If I were making the decision? No. We gain nothing by playing them in Hartford, or Storrz. St. John's gives us NYC, and we've been playing them for a lot longer than UConn. Did we have a good stretch with UConn? No doubt. Do they now bring anything to the table other than recent history? Not in my opinion.