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Message: [QUOTE="upstater, post: 1271884, member: 153"] The promotion has already happened: Buffalo. [URL]http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/early-lead/wp/2015/03/20/why-do-buffalos-uniforms-say-new-york-instead-of-buffalo/[/URL] But the sports marketing isn't what makes it the flagship. Instead it was the UB20/20 bill and the Buffalo Billion. So, it went from being the largest SUNY with the most comprehensive programs and biggest in terms of research and also grad and professional schools, to doubling down on its advantage by garnering a huge chunk of dough from the state. Now all you hear from people is "flagship" of the system. New York politics for a couple decades prevented this from happening because there was state legislator strength in Binghamton. And BingU. was a big plus for that city's economic life. But now that the political power there has gone, Bing. has fallen behind Stony Brook and well behind Buffalo. [/QUOTE]