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Syracuse starts a six year home and home series with Georgetown next season. Boeheim today said Syracuse will continue to play Villanova and St. John's although probably not every year. Last season he said he wanted to do a rotation where he plays at least two of the three each season. Be interesting to see how that works going forward.

This helps those BE teams because for that 1 day their arenas are sold out and TV viewership is up. But it helps Cuse more because they will continue to get kids from the NJ/NY/philly/DC areas. I understand the economics, but I would personally prefer that teams like Cuse don't play any more games in our cities and let them wither on an isolated vine like BC.

St. John's / Syracuse has sold out the Garden once in the last decade. The Games usually get about 15K. Nova and G'Town games against St. John's get between 11 and 14k. The Orange bring a lot of fans for sure, but the numbers are generally inflated by the Orange camp.

bman wrote:This helps those BE teams because for that 1 day their arenas are sold out and TV viewership is up. But it helps Cuse more because they will continue to get kids from the NJ/NY/philly/DC areas. I understand the economics, but I would personally prefer that teams like Cuse don't play any more games in our cities and let them wither on an isolated vine like BC.

That would be great if it actually worked out like that. Though if we so shun them then they will just schedule OOC games in our arenas and there is nothing we can do about it. Much rather they play us and we get the financial bump from it then someone else.

NJRed: You are right about the schools each doing what is in their best interests. In Philly, you think that Temple won't jump at the chance to schedule Syracuse? I'd rather not allow Syracuse the opportunity to market themselves in Philly, but my assumption is that if VU doesn't someone else will.

That being said... The game yesterday was AWESOME! And the Wells Fargo was rockin'. In that respect, I hope they do everything to keep Playing Syracuse as time goes on. And they are good for strength of schedule,etc.

And the announced crowd was over 18k. Not a sell out, but a good crowd. (About 20% Orange fans). Yeah, that helps a lot with the decision.

I know that plenty of people want to say 'Screw Syracuse' on this board over the breakup...but its good basketball. And that is what I, and the average viewing public wants to see...good basketball.

Like mentioned above, if we don't play them, Temple or St. Joes would jump at the chance to put butts in seats at the WF center. Maybe less of an issue in the Garden or DC (they don't have as many decent basketball schools), but I'll still look forward to this game every year.

I think it's great that Syracuse will still play Villanova, St. John's, and let's sure hope Georgetown. It should say to the public that Syracuse never should left the Big East as they still want to play Big East schools.

Long time rivals Marquette and Notre Dame should be playing. Why does DePaul and Illinois never play? I like how Providence plays Rhode Island, Boston College and UMass. We need more regional match ups in college basketball.

The football schools shat on u, and y'all said - "oh it's okay...it's S'cuse (or Pitt, L'ville, ND, etc., etc., etc.), no blood-no foul. Let's continue to play hoops to help you (S'cuse) recruit the big cities." Wow...what 'nice guys' u C7 folks are. I don 't see any of u lining up to play BC, Miami, WV, or Temple (other former BE schools). Helping the enemy - let S'cuse play @ St Francis/Fordham/Manhattan, @ Drexel/LaSalle, and @ American/G Mason if they want to play in the big city. The same goes for any of the rest of the BE defectors.

Last year it appeared that the BE was at a disadvantage, hence Boeheim's "helping" former rivals (from a imagined position of strength). This year the BE appears strong. Just say no to former rivals who offer "help" in their own selfish best interest.

gtmoBlue wrote:The football schools shat on u, and y'all said - "oh it's okay...it's S'cuse (or Pitt, L'ville, ND, etc., etc., etc.), no blood-no foul. Let's continue to play hoops to help you (S'cuse) recruit the big cities." Wow...what 'nice guys' u C7 folks are. I don 't see any of u lining up to play BC, Miami, WV, or Temple (other former BE schools). Helping the enemy - let S'cuse play St Francis/Fordham, Drexel/LaSalle, American/G Mason if they want to play in the big city. The same goes for any of the rest of the BE defectors.

Except for the fact that Syracuse could line up I don't know UConn to play in NYC, Temple to play in Philly, and Maryland to play in DC. Not playing Syracuse hurts us way more than it hurts them. Also with NYC, there are those exempt tournaments where they can get 2 games there pretty darn easily.

gtmoBlue wrote:The football schools shat on u, and y'all said - "oh it's okay...it's S'cuse (or Pitt, L'ville, ND, etc., etc., etc.), no blood-no foul. Let's continue to play hoops to help you (S'cuse) recruit the big cities." Wow...what 'nice guys' u C7 folks are. I don 't see any of u lining up to play BC, Miami, WV, or Temple (other former BE schools). Helping the enemy - let S'cuse play @ St Francis/Fordham/Manhattan, @ Drexel/LaSalle, and @ American/G Mason if they want to play in the big city. The same goes for any of the rest of the BE defectors.

Last year it appeared that the BE was at a disadvantage, hence Boeheim's "helping" former rivals (from a imagined position of strength). This year the BE appears strong. Just say no to former rivals who offer "help" in their own selfish best interest.

Are you done? Did you read any previous posts?

It's really very simple. We also benefit from these games. We sell a bunch of tickets and get a good OOC game to help our SOS. It's not like if we decide to not play them they wont be able to play at MSG or WF or whatever that arena is called in DC. They will play Rutgers or UConn or anyone else at MSG. At Weels Fargo they will play Temple or PSU or anyone else there. Same goes for the DC arena. They are going to those arenas anyway, it can either be to play us and we get a good gate and a SOS bump or it can be someone else and we DON"T get anything out of it. It's that simple. I would be open to scheduling any former BE teams just so we can beat them and show that we're better than them. There are no hurt feelings in sports, it's about beating them on the court and showing that you are the superior program.