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[QUOTE="sutomcat, post: 3080318, member: 27"]
Rutgers got a 7 year deal that pays them escalating numbers from $1.25 million to $1.85 million over the life of the contract for naming rights to their stadium.

[USER=716]OttoMets[/USER] is right that the economy in CNY is not great and there aren't many Fortune 500 companies located close by.

But I think everyone can agree that the dome is featured on national broadcasts more than any other on campus college facility in the country.  Between football, men's and women's basketball and men's and women's lacrosse, it gets a lot of air play nationally.

And all of these programs are very strong, proven winners a company would like to be associated with.

The question is whether a company that does not necessarily have strong national ties to CNY would be interested in getting a piece of this action.

Rutgers is getting roughly 1.5 million a year for 6 or 7 football games and maybe a lacrosse game once in a blue moon.

If you have a company based in the ACC footprint, I think you might be interested in a naming gift for the Syracuse facility.  I think someone is going to pay at least a million dollars a year.  Might be Carrier.  Might be someone else.  That is Carrier's decision.  It might not be for 10 years but I am confident it will happen.
I think the only thing holding a deal from happening is that the university wants to do right by Carrier and is bending over backwards to try and retain them as a big sponsor for SU athletics.

Time will tell.
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