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[QUOTE="Townie72, post: 250833, member: 780"]
So what's your point? That SU was stupid? Amateurish? What? Or is this just more of the mindless, incessant criticism of the school, the coaches and the players that seems to characterize so much of the discussion on this forum. Or were you correcting my weak statement that this the first or one of the first stadiums to sell naming rights?
 
At the time, the University was scrambling for the money, as I recall, to close the gap between the cost of the project and the NY State money and what donations they felt they could raise or had raised. With their hands out, they weren't trying to drive any bargains. There wasn't any "auctioning" of the naming rights. And as far as I can tell, SU approached Carrier with the proposition and maybe they thought that a 12 year period or whatever wasn't attractive enough of a deal to get the money they were looking for. While maybe not the first naming rights deal it was far from a common practice at the time.
 
I thought it was a miracle they got the money from Carrier at the time. Now people are saying we should have cut a better bargain.
 
Remember the Dome project fell into SU's lap based upon politicians looking to spend money in Central NY so that CNY wouldn't scream about money spent Downstate. And there may have been some pressure to get this thing tied up before the political winds changed direction. Maybe somebody might have raised the question of why NY State taxpayers are building a stadium for a private university.
 
For the record, at the time I thought the selling of naming rights was "cheesy".
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