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[QUOTE="Cusefan95, post: 5660332, member: 173"]
Mostly because we use the Dome for multiple sports but the only one that needs the capacity is football.  The Dome is a liability and not an asset if there’s not adequate revenue generating activities there which cannot be done elsewhere.

If Syracuse isn’t in a major FBS conference, it cannot fund football - we see that with UConn.  UConn as a public university has a lot more runway to lose money…but even at that they need to either drop football, drop to FCS, or get to a power conference eventually.  We’d probably quickly drop to FCS, possibly drop football completely.  At that point maintaining the Dome is an insanely bad business decision - it HAS to go.  The absolute best case is to sell the land to ESF for immediate cash…no idea if that’s possible but I’m very confident NYS would jump at buying that plot of land.

The right question is not “can basketball at Syracuse succeed without football”.  The correct question is “can basketball succeed at Syracuse without the Dome”.  Since I’m skeptical in the scenario above that Syracuse would invest in a new basketball arena immediately, they’d probably look to play in the War Memorial until there was proof of concept that basketball outside the Dome was profitable enough to justify.  A lot of the “we should leave the ACC!” is based on the idea Syracuse would use the Dome for football with crowds of 10,000 and there’s no negative impact to basketball as a result.  I believe that is absolutely a flawed assumption which is certainly wrong.
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