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Message: [QUOTE="billybud, post: 3916371, member: 3850"] If it wasn't for money...Syracuse should be in the Big East... But here is the problem with the way football drives.... Cuse really is a basketball school...In football Syracuse was last in the ACC football standings last year...but football made the money... [I]Syracuse, N.Y. -- The Syracuse Athletic department set a revenue record for the third consecutive year in 2018-19, reporting department revenue of $99.8 million. That revenue is up from[URL='https://www.syracuse.com/sports/g66l-2019/07/5152788219702/how-much-does-syracuse-spend-on-each-sport-2-lead-the-country-football-lags.html'] $93.8 million in 2017-18.[/URL] Syracuse’s report to the federal government showed a surplus of $16.9 million made through athletics. The school has regularly shown a surplus on the federal report in recent years while school officials have indicated it has a balanced athletic budget. Syracuse athletic director John Wildhack has emphasized that he wants to fund every program at the school to be competitive. The only sports in which Syracuse falls outside the top 35 schools in spending are volleyball and football. Nine sports rank among the top 10 in the country.[/I] Cuse is riding football to spend money in other sports...they can not afford to go Indy and play where they should be...the BE. [/QUOTE]