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[QUOTE="Cusefan95, post: 5659525, member: 173"]
Which of those schools built a giant Dome for football?  None of them, right?

That has a massive impact here, its a huge building that cannot possibly be justified if we're playing FCS football in front of 10,000 fans.  The most likely option is we demo the Dome, move football to a smaller venue elsewhere, and move basketball to the War Memorial.  If you think Syracuse moving basketball from a Dome with a massive national reputation to a small old barn would do anything other than signal to the world that Syracuse basketball is DOA...I want some of what you are smoking.  If you think we stay playing basketball in the Dome while football loses massive amount of money (which is inevitable outside the P4)...I still want some of what you are smoking.

There is no route to success in basketball outside the P4.  None at all.  We either find a way to make it work in the ACC, or we become increasingly irrelevant in all sports.  I get that there's a huge desire on the part of older fans who fondly remember the Big East to ignore that - but pointing to other Big East schools with a totally different asset base and cost structure as examples to emulate is unworkable.

The key question is "how does the Dome work if we drop down to FCS football (or try to play FBS independent)"?  And the answer is - it doesn't, its a white elephant disaster which pulls the entire AD down with it.
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