We need to go back to the big east

[Cusefan95]

There are 365 D1 BBall programs and only 68 P4s. How do the other nearly 300 schools fund their sports? It is hard to take some of this fanbase seriously when they are so bad at math.

WOW. i'd didn't realize that there were no D1 teams able to fund sports outside of the ACC !
thought maybe the revenue from that huge dome and nation leading attendance might help a bit ...

You guys are doing a phenomenal job not answering the key question:

WHAT HAPPENS TO THE DOME WHEN MAJOR (P4) FOOTBALL IS GONE?

No other D1 school has the situation that Syracuse has. There is no comp.

 

[Consigliere]

Unfortunately that Big East no longer exists, unless you consider Omaha, Milwaukee, Indianapolis, Cincinnati and Chicago to be iconic Big East cities. Adding more basketball only schools wasn’t the answer.

 

[CorduroyG]

While I'll preface this by saying financially we cant go back, but moving to the ACC is the worst thing that could have happened to the bball program. We had an identity in the Big East, we had a rivalry that was the second biggest rivalry in the sport, we knew who we were. In the ACC we're just another middling-to-bad program that has no identity.

Bingo. Just playing in the big east tournament every year was HUGE. Those games would be the lead story on sportscenter. Syracuse-georgetown or syracuse-uconn in the big east tourny were as big as any games in the country outside of duke-unc. Those games were literally as loud as knick playoff games. We havent had anything close to that since the games against duke our 1st acc year.

 

[KevMonstah]

If SU was like 99% of the other schools in the northeast that do not attempt to play high end college
football, which is bascially anybody other than (and note it's "attempt", not well or not well)

SU, BC, Army, Buffalo, Pitt, Penn St, Temple, Rutgers, UConn, UMass, Ivy League?, Albany, Stonybrook

they could play anywhere they wanted to for hoops. But with something other than a 12,000 seat
football stadium, they do need to be somewhere that football matters. That football is the way it
is sucks, not everyone cares about the little ten schools or most of the sec ones, and i think expanding
college football playoffs to get more of those teams in, and in doing so making college kids play
an nfl season's worth of games, is stupid.

 

[IthaCuse]

I don’t see why people say that football is a necessity for basketball. What do we need to run a basketball program? In theory we need maybe $5 million annually for coaches and the full $20.5 million for NIL. $25.5 million across 16 home games is just under $1.6 million per game. You cover that at just under $80 per ticket on average at an average crowd of 20,000, and hopefully use merch and concessions to pay for most of the stadium staff. At that point your TV revenue and everything past $80 per ticket or 20,000 per game you can muster is your profit.

Obviously there’s more to it than that, but I don’t think a thriving basketball program in CNY will be unable to carry itself financially. There’s so much money on the table for a thriving basketball program.

 

[Sherman20]

I dont know all the ins and outs, but i know the move was all about football and money. But leaving the acc destroyed syracuse basketball. We had a good regular season the first acc year, and a miracle final 4 run in 2016. But other than that just a complete and utter disaster.

We’re an east coast team. We have a huge alumni/fan base in the tri state area. What games can we go to??? Nova in philly? Nope. Seton hall in newark? Nope. St johns at the garden? Nope. Jimmy v classic at the garden? Nope. Big east tournament at the garden? Nope.

I cant help but think leaving the big east affected recruiting. We just dont belong in the acc. We had a legacy in the big east. We had TRADITION. That matters. Now we got nothing.

This really sux. Even if we stunk, if we were playing providence and villanova and st johns and uconn and seton hall in february id still watch. Big east tournament id still watch. But virginia? Cal? SMU???? Duke unc ohh great we’ll lose by 30. Wake forest lol. Wheres the acc tournament this year? Who knows and who cares

Im so disgusted. I loved syracuse basketball i loved the big east. And i miss both terribly. NOW GET OFF MY LAWN!!!

The problem is that you’re advancing a destructive narrative that we can’t be good again unless we’re in the Big East. And that’s not a good look and not true. A good proven coach can make the program good again.