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[QUOTE="Cusefan95, post: 5012108, member: 173"]
Interesting you chose schools who are utterly irrelevant in college athletics to try to make a case Syracuse wouldn’t be utterly irrelevant if we’d stayed in the Big East.  That’s so nonsensical, I can’t even figure out how that makes sense to you.

Syracuse football and basketball would be as relevant as the programs at St Bonnie’s and Colgate had we stayed in the Big East - that is 100% correct.  How does that support your argument Syracuse should have stayed in the Big East exactly?

Big East TV contract pays out about $4.6M per school.  UConn gets about $0.5M from their football deal with CBSSports.  ACC TV contract is @$30M.  As a private school, the athletic department would need to make massive cuts if there was a $25M/yr difference in revenues.  There is no way to make that up,  which is why Syracuse needed to get out of the Big East.  It’s not that hard to understand, unless you really, really don’t want to understand because of an emotional attachment to the old Big East.

It’s over, man - let it go…
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