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Message: [QUOTE="OrangeXtreme, post: 5659399, member: 41"] ACC Football money is what funds the Women's and "Non-Revenue" sports. Without football money, there would be no soccer, or field hockey, or rowing, etc... Unlike our friends at UConn (who are STATE funded), Syracuse just can't cry to Albany everytime the Athletic Dept has a budget shortfall. So when people sneer that we chased an ACC Football Paycheck, I reply "YOU'RE DAMNED RIGHT WE CHASED AN ACC FOOTBALL PAYCHECK". Because there was no other choice. It was either $40 million a year from the ACC, or maybe $7 million a year from the American Conference. Orphaning football, or demoting it to FCS level was never an option. [/QUOTE]