Syracuse To Play USC And Notre Dame In The Meadowlands
by Sean Keeley on Aug 17, 2009 5:04 PM EDT
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PrintSorry folks, USC is no longer coming to town. Neither is Notre Dame. In what is quickly becoming the norm around the country, Syracuse will plays it's biggest and most high-profile opponents pretty much anywhere...except the Carrier Dome.
Donnie Webb reports that tomorrow's announcement about the Meadowlands' college football games concern the Syracuse Orange.
The Orange will play the University of Southern California in 2012 and Notre Dame in 2014 and 2016.
According to Donnie, that USC game means that the Trojans will not be making a visit to the Carrier Dome as they were supposed to. That sucks. Obviously, it's a sacrifice in the name of NYC and national exposure, but it's a dangerous precedent if not handled well from here on out.
We were already pretty sure about the Notre Dame games, though originally we heard it was a much bigger series. If this holds, that means the Irish will be playing four games in or near NYC from now until 2016. Is New York's College Team Syracuse, Rutgers, Army or Notre Dame? Hard to tell.
No word on whether or not that means SU can schedule another home game to take the place of the '12 USC game.
Well, those who wanted to see the Orange play in the shadow of the Empire State building have their chance, albeit a little further away than the initial possibility. Those who don't like the idea of giving up home-dome advantage, well, you're SOL. DOC Gross got what he wanted, for sure. Now it's up to HCDM to make sure we don't lose by 40 in any of these games.
(Note: Credit where credit is due, Brent Axe actually first-mentioned it in his discussion with DOC Gross a few weeks back)
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I don't like it
Notre Dame at Giants Stadium? Fine, everyone knows that we’re not getting them back in the Dome anytime soon and the game at least makes sense as a northeast rivalry. But the USC game bothers me. They don’t want to play us in the Dome after we go out there? Great, pay us the buyout and we will schedule someone we can beat in the Dome. That schedule is already a killer. 2012 is too soon to expect that SU can compete with USC anyway.
I really doubt this was driven by USC
It was probably driven by ESPN and the desire to put a game there that people would actually show up for. No conference game would work for that (at least, not where we’d have even the slightest pretense of home field advantage). Minnesota or Northwestern wouldn’t work either. And with three BCS teams on the OOC schedule for 2012 already, the other two games are going to be a non-BCS team and an FCS school in all likelyhood.
I will try my damnedest
to make the trek wherever it is I am in 2012 to get to the Meadowlands for that game.
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Why don't..
we play 3 games at Citi Field, 3 games at Yankee Stadium, 3 games at the new Giants Stadium and 3 games at Ralph Wilson stadium then? F the Dome. We are New York’s team!! How selfish of us to keep our home games in Syracuse!!
by FireMikeVeley on Aug 17, 2009 6:17 PM EDT reply actions 1 recs
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Sounds like...
the days when they were building the Dome…
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by Chris Dobbertean on Aug 18, 2009 12:31 PM EDT up reply actions
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This just announces to the world this is a second rate football school. From my house I can get to the meadowlands in the same amount of time I can get to the carrier dome, but giving away home games because SU isn’t good enough to have these teams come into our building is degrading the program in the name of the almighty dollar. Plus ND fans will outnumber SU fans 3 to 1 in that building. This is poor.
We might not like it, but we are a second rate football program.
I feel like we will have to find ways that these games can be a good thing. The obvious way is winning or competing in these games since everyone will be watching. Hopefully HCDM and staff can spin this into a recruiting tool and jumpstart that process further. Then maybe in 5 years it will seem like we dictated getting a floundering ND on national television, even if that wasn’t the truth.
What a joke?
The ONLY positive that this brings to the program is slight recruiting benefits in the next 2-3 years.
What is up with us playing so much at Giants Stadium? First I’m screwed out of seeing my buddy at Princeton playing at the Carrier Dome in lacrosse my freshman year, and now I’m screwed out of seeing USC in football my senior year. Unless for some reason they schedule this for Thanksgiving weekend so that the Jersey students and those from Long Island like myself can see it, but I highly doubt that.
if you graduate in 2012
You don’t get to see the SU-USC game anyways. We graduate in May. The game is in the fall.
Oh sorry to add
I’m graduating 2013. Syracuse is still playing Princeton in the Big City Classic in 2010
Maybe....
It’s good that Syracuse is playing ND in the Carrier Dome. We’ll see if people will follow a local school or will bandwagon on a school that people are stuck in a time warp about.
This is BS.
Simply put. The Dome sells the team. No one wants to play college football in NYC. It doesn’t work. Go back to the Gotham Bowl for God’s sake.
They can hardly fill half the seats in the Garden for the BE BBall Tourney.
To much going on there for people to care.
Syracuse is UPSTATE New York’s team. DOC had better get on board if he wants any more of my money.
Shit-Eating grin asshole on-his-knees blowing the game for his promotion to USC AD.
I want smokin Jake back.
The 'Cuse is in tha house, oh my God oh my God.
This sucks
say good bye to any chance at victory. I live outside nyc and lord knows this is more convenient, but good bye any chance at a win. The dome is a huge home field advantage and we (usually) play up to the level of our competition. 06 Iowa, 05 WVU, 04 FSU, 04 Pitt when we rushed the field…. now it wont be a trap game in a hot sticky dome for a team that just traveled coast to coast to play. UGH Im pissed.
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