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[QUOTE="sutomcat, post: 1736128, member: 27"]
I don't think so.

SUNY only started in 1948.  NYS was really late to embrace the idea.  It was literally the last one.  When it was decided to move forward, the huge question was whether to go with a centralized system like so many other states had, or a decentralized approach.

I had been told there was talk of SU serving as the central university around which the SUNY system would be built, and that they declined.

Looking further, there was definite strong support for SU as the center of the SUNY system but an obscure minority speaker named Elmer Quinn was able to defeat it and the old decentralized approach we have today was implemented instead.  While Chancellor Tolley was against the creation of a SUNY system (it would inevitably hurt SU) it appears he was interested in Syracuse serving as the flagship for SUNY if SUNY had to happen.

Good review of what happened here.  Syracuse was hurting for money post WWII and ending up selling its medical school and what would become SUNY Binghamton to the state, along with losing most of its control over the Forestry school.   The relationship between SU and the state was really stormy.  It is an ugly story.

Based on this history, it is no surprise that Upstate SUNY is so adamant in trying to stop SU from creating a medical school today.  They don't share well.

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