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[QUOTE="Cusefan95, post: 5708382, member: 173"]
Because without the revenue from football, that plot of land is more valuable as something else.  And without the TV revenue, football cannot survive at all (see: UConn).  The only financially viable decision is probably to demo the Dome, drop football, move basketball elsewhere.

It’s a fantasy that Syracuse can lose @$33MM in revenue and not make massive changes to more than just football.  That’s the difference between ACC and UConn right now.  Basketball will absolutely be impacted - the question is how.

UConn went from @$7MM/yr in TV revenue to @$4.5MM by leaving the American for the Big East.  The plan was they are losing a lot either way, going to the Big East gave them a chance to build their basketball brand more as a selling point to a bigger league.  The “let’s go back to the Big East!” crowd is saying -
1) We can find another league for football and have basketball in its own league, when UConn was unable to do that -OR-
2) We can compete independently as an ongoing plan just like UConn without realizing that was a stop gap solution for UConn.

If you want to assume Dome still exists and football is in it - how do you think losing over $33MM/yr in revenue will impact the athletic department overall, and basketball specifically?  The money end of this makes the Big East laughably stupid to consider.
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