Cuse fans, get real
As a native New Yorker, one of the more ridiculous things I've read here all too often, is that somehow Syracuse will be delivering the NYC market for the ACC. Nothing could be further from the truth. Outside of the alums living in the area, no one cares one bit about Syracuse. I would put money on the fact, that if you randomly questioned 100 people on the streets of New York, not 1 in a 100 could name the Syracuse football coach, the quarterback, or any member of the team for that matter. Nor could anyone tell you who they last played in football, or who their next opponent is. In fact to take it one step further, few would be able to find Syracuse on a map of New York State if you asked them.
It's humorous how Syracuse so desperately wants to be affiliated with NYC that they have an image of the Stuatue of Liberty on their athletic website. ACC fans might be interested to know you already have two teams much closer to Madison Square Garden than Syracuse, those being BC and Maryland. Maybe Maryland missed the boat by not putting a New York emblem on their website so they could have claimed to be "New Yorks team". Of course they'd have had to beat Temple, Villanova, Penn State and numerous others that are also far closer than Syracuse.
I will admit there is some interest in New York in Syracuse's basketball team. But that is based on the fact they have an elite program, just as there is similar interest in Kentucky, Kansas and other top programs. However just because Kentucky played at the Garden this past week, and people enjoyed seeing them, no one would call them New York's team, as they don't with Syracuse either. In the past, with New York being a Big East town, most would have pulled for Syracuse against an OOC team, like say Texas for example. But once Syracuse is gone to the ACC, that minor allegiance will disappear forever, as you'll simply be one more remote ACC outpost like Blacksburg, Tallahassee, and Winston-Salem. Quite simply, no one will care. Although recent years haven't been kind to New York City collegiate fans, we are hopeful that Steve Lavin will brings St. Johns back, and he seems to have taken a good first step with a strong freshman class. Should that happen, the Garden will be rocking, and we'll be rooting for "our team". Or if the stars mysteriously line up right and somehow Fordham, Iona or Hofstra become relevant on the national stage, we'll also be rooting for them. ( I'm not holding my breath on that one though).
It amazes me how you Syracuse fans gloat over what you perceive as such a good situation. You're going from one really bad football conference to another bad one, that has only been made worse by your inclusion. And then you're going from what has hands down been the best basketball conference in the nation, to one that has two elite teams, the same two year in and year out, and 10 others that range from mediocre to out and out dreadful. You've had a powerhouse home schedule for years, it'll be interesting to see how long the novelty lasts before the reality of every other year home game with Carolina and Duke surrounded by the Marylands and Wakes and Virginias and other ACC drek sinks in. Those 1000 mile road trips should be fun. The ACC is a baseball powerhouse though, it'll be interesting to see how you fare there, oh wait... that's right, Syracuse doesn't even have a baseball team. Yeah, you guys are a terrific cultural fit for them.
Anyway, back to the original point, stop trying to pull the wool over your new conference mates eyes by acting like you have any relevence in the New York market. The only market you'll deliver will be Syracuse, New York, and that will barely manage a blip on any national ratings measure. And if the Big East implodes, and we're forced to adopt an ACC team, the majority of us will go with BC or Maryland, which are both much closer and a more reasonable cultural fit. Syracuse is like a foreign country to us.
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The notion that Syracuse commands some kind of presence in NYC is ridiculous, absurd.
