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[QUOTE="FloridaCuse, post: 5630772, member: 8912"]
For those who are arguing for Syracuse to become a SUNY school, some history based on my long term memory (so I hope it's still good).  I had to look it up that Buffalo was purchased by SUNY and became part of the SUNY system in 1962.  I was in my mid-teens then and in high school in Syracuse.  My recollection is that SUNY at the time it was considering UB was also considered SU and it was going to be one of the two.  Ultimately they chose UB.  I don't recall why other than possibly the then SU administration (Chancellor Tolley was chancellor then) may have opposed it.   One additional tidbit from my research on UB is that UB is a member of the Association of American Universities (since 1989).  SU used to be also, admitted in 1966 but resigned before they were booted out around 2010, possibily because SUNY purchased the SU Medical School (now Upstate) which diminished the amount of Federal research dollars that SU received.  Being a member of the AAU historically has been a prequisite to be asked to join the Big Ten.  Endnote -- I'm going to venture a wild guess that SU athletics would never have been as successful had it been part of SUNY.
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