Why is Syracuse football opening 2019 season at Liberty?

[OrangeXtreme]

 

[orangeinohio]

So...Liberty is paying SU for Saturday's game?
I know the 'financial terms' haven't been disclosed but the emerging program with a ton of money and the desire to be a bigger program should shelling out the cash for this game, right?

 

[LeMoyneCuse]

So...Liberty is paying SU for Saturday's game?
I know the 'financial terms' haven't been disclosed but the emerging program with a ton of money and the desire to be a bigger program should shelling out the cash for this game, right?

Everybody pays for non-conference road games. Syracuse and UCONN paid each other $350,000 for their 2016-2018 home and home.

 

[wiseman3]

I'm more annoyed that we don't play Miami again until 2024...kind of crazy you don't play a team in your own conference for that long of a time

 

[Toga]

I'm more annoyed that we don't play Miami again until 2024...kind of crazy you don't play a team in your own conference for that long of a time

This could be its own thread - but is there any chance of moving to rotation of teams - the idea that the B1G shot down? I thought a number of months ago I thought maybe the opposition landscape had changed.

 

[NKR1978]

This could be its own thread - but is there any chance of moving to rotation of teams - the idea that the B1G shot down? I thought a number of months ago I thought maybe the opposition landscape had changed.

Probably should be a separate thread...but I've come around to not wanting the rotating teams. I kind of like that we've been playing 7/8 of the same team every year. I know VT (especially) and Miami (somewhat) were rivals in the BE days; but I feel like every team in the Atlantic, and Pitt, is starting to feel like a rival. You really only develop rivalries when you play the same teams every year. Rotating would take away from that.

 

[orangeinohio]

Everybody pays for non-conference road games. Syracuse and UCONN paid each other $350,000 for their 2016-2018 home and home.

So Liberty pays this year?
Syracuse pays next year and the following year for both home games?

 

[LeMoyneCuse]

So Liberty pays this year?
Syracuse pays next year and the following year for both home games?

Seems likely. Liberty paid Old Dominion $1.2 million to be their home opener in 2018. Seems as though Syracuse wouldn't pay NEARLY that much for the return trips.