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According to reports Syracuse is waiting on Georgetown to agree to a 10 year series. Do the right thing Georgetown, tell the traitors no. Below is the discussion from the SU board, the G'Town board and an article.

http://syracusefan.com/threads/georgeto ... ock.57472/

http://hoyatalk2.proboards.com/thread/2 ... on?page=11

http://blog.syracuse.com/sports/2013/09 ... er_default

Some dude: Knock Knock

JT3: Who is it?

Some dude: Cuse

JT3: (-_-) Zzzzz

Who benefits more from that series - Cuse or Hoyas?

Boeheim recruits heavily in the Maryland area while Georgeown doesn't recruit up there in Southern Canada at all. But having Syracuse come to the Verizon Center helps fill the stands. Over 20K showed up for that last home game.

Dew wrote:Who benefits more from that series - Cuse or Hoyas?

Georgetown-Syracuse is one of the great college basketball rivalry games going. Assuming the deal is for a true home and home series, I don't see any way the Hoyas walk away from this.

To answer your question, both programs would benefit from playing, but at least in the near term Georgetown (and indirectly the rest of the BE) would clearly benefit the most. One of the biggest concerns the BE will have in the short term, in my opinion, is OOC schedule strength and RPI issues. This game helps on both counts.

nickthedribbler wrote:

Dew wrote:Who benefits more from that series - Cuse or Hoyas?

Georgetown-Syracuse is one of the great college basketball rivalry games going. Assuming the deal is for a true home and home series, I don't see any way the Hoyas walk away from this.

To answer your question, both programs would benefit from playing, but at least in the near term Georgetown (and indirectly the rest of the BE) would clearly benefit the most. One of the biggest concerns the BE will have in the short term, in my opinion, is OOC schedule strength and RPI issues. This game helps on both counts.

Hope this one keeps going. A lot of rivalries aren't so lucky. Missouri and Kansas don't play.

No actual contract exists.http://blog.syracuse.com/sports/2013/09/syracuse_athletic_director_dar_1.html. Just a concept.

Dew wrote:Who benefits more from that series - Cuse or Hoyas?

Given that right now the Hoyas are no longer on their sched & Maryland is leaving the ACC, Cuse won't have a that routine presence in the fertile DMV recruiting area which it lived off of (Melo, CJ Fair, etc) going forward. On the other hand Gtown won't have routine access to that recruiting hotbed known as Siberia aka Central NY either...fair trade.

nickthedribbler wrote:

Dew wrote:Who benefits more from that series - Cuse or Hoyas?

Georgetown-Syracuse is one of the great college basketball rivalry games going. Assuming the deal is for a true home and home series, I don't see any way the Hoyas walk away from this.

To answer your question, both programs would benefit from playing, but at least in the near term Georgetown (and indirectly the rest of the BE) would clearly benefit the most. One of the biggest concerns the BE will have in the short term, in my opinion, is OOC schedule strength and RPI issues. This game helps on both counts.

Georgetown should accept this, and it would benefit Georgetown, therefore benefitting the Big East. Not playing major programs over old battles lost is stupid. We need our programs to stay in the limelight.

nickthedribbler wrote:

Dew wrote:Who benefits more from that series - Cuse or Hoyas?

Georgetown-Syracuse is one of the great college basketball rivalry games going. Assuming the deal is for a true home and home series, I don't see any way the Hoyas walk away from this.

To answer your question, both programs would benefit from playing, but at least in the near term Georgetown (and indirectly the rest of the BE) would clearly benefit the most. One of the biggest concerns the BE will have in the short term, in my opinion, is OOC schedule strength and RPI issues. This game helps on both counts.

+1

While it sucks that Cuse will end up benefiting with respect to recruiting by signing this deal, I think the benefits (eg RPI) outweigh the costs.