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Did I post that? I’m responding to someone who thinks that fans are overreacting and think the issue is that we’re gonna play walkons. A team can be terrible and not play walkons. I’d prefer we play the best players possible. This has not been the case for a decade.

Dud. He was very underwhelming and disappears on the court, can’t play D, and yet plays the most minutes. Because that’s the same line fed to fans for the last decade. “He’s a HOFer, you think he doesn’t know what he’s doing?” Best class! Look at these guys we’re recruiting!” There’s a search...

How’s the program doing? Let’s say, over the last decade? Give me a break. No one is expecting walkons. Louisville didn’t play walkons.

It’s never the staff’s fault with a lot of fans here. From sanctions to players leaving early to bags from other teams. Things that every other team in college basketball have to deal with. After a decade of irrelevance I’m tired of the excuses.

Yeah. That’s a tantrum when the staff has let their most productive players leave. Last year the guys they replaced them with were duds or complete zeroes and everyone thinks well this time will be different!

lol. How many posts did you have this year about roster turnover and how Maliq was the one guy you didn’t want to lose? Now he’s just a dude.

As of a few weeks ago this was posted: I don't think Jake was just blowing smoke. So if this was all hashed out over this season, then if anything changed it was Freeman no longer wanting to come off the bench.

My position is that the staff has not been able to keep their most productive players and their replacements have not been nearly as good. Is your position the opposite or that "Oh well, kids gonna be kids, We should just be happy to have a team still?" Two can play this game.

I'd bet UVA, too. They had a big frosh center this season and their two forwards were grad transfers this year and not very good. Maliq would be a force for Tony Bennett and he loves him good defensive players who can reasonably guard anyone. You going to bet your house on those guys? What ifs...

I'm sure he does, but he needs to be a lot more successful with his players that he brings in than he was this year. He went 0-4 on transfers last season.

re-read the post, "a kid who hasn’t played D1 basketball in two years" Cuffe's production is replaceable with literally any other guard in D1.

In fact, I remember a post from someone in the know who suggested Freeman was OK coming off the bench. ETA: here's the post I remembered.

A real 4 who hasn't played D1 basketball game, is skinny and is going to be banging against grown men, a real 5 who hasn't been signed yet, and a real 1 who hasn't been identified let alone signed yet. Here are the the top 10 Syracuse players in WAR* the last two seasons on two teams that...

Just like they were counting on Jesse last season. Not a good trend taking shape here.

He needs to be Melo good. At minimum, he needs to be as good as a junior Maliq could be playing his best position. Best case scenario he needs to be All ACC good to compensate for Bell & JJ.

I’m sure he cries himself to sleep on a giant pile of money instead of worrying about posts on a message board. If he can’t handle fans who’ve watched a very good to great program decline to an afterthought mid-major and are champing at the bit to get back to the Tourney, let alone a top-20...

I’d be loyal to the guy you developed and has already showed he can play well at this level, not the unknown quantities coming into the program. Freeman can come off the bench. Not every McD AA is some irreplaceable stud as a frosh. Ask UK. Replace the least effective guys on the team who...

How’s your boy Carey doing? Solid contributor yet? You may have played college basketball in 19 dickety 2, or whatever, but your scouting is terrible.

And he’s salty that Carey, and his great hair, is leaving.

Not a hot take at all. Completely agree. I’m more disappointed that the staff couldn’t figure out a way to have Maliq, Freeman and a quality portal C divide up 80 minutes. Instead we’re stuck in this “we can only get decent players if we promise starts and the bulk of minutes”. I think...

The best teams and coaches keep their best players and replace the ones who can't or won't execute the coach's game plan. If Red can't do that, then I don't know why he's making a few mill a year. Vlad Goldin is in the portal and that guy could make bank in the NIL market transferring to any...

So by replacing the two best players on the team with two better players? It's about the replacement's production over who they're replacing. Maliq, despite being undersized, was one of the best defensive and efficient centers in the ACC. Mintz was not, but he was one of the best scorers in...

What’s the roster? Bell, JJ, Freeman, mintz or a Mintz clone, and Lampkin and bench with a kid who hasn’t played D1 basketball in two years, a 7’4” center who doesn’t know how to play basketball, a redshirt frosh center who couldn’t get time on a team with zero centers, and a freshman shooter...

Team hasn’t been ranked during conference play in 10 years. A decade! A 20 win season, woo hoo. A) teams are playing 3-5 more games per season than in the past B) This year that 20 includes a bad D2 team. Teams play 35 games and schedule cupcakes. SU is a plucky mid major who got a couple wins...

This is a wild thread with some serious H0T Takes. The folks who rationalize these missteps by taking shots at the guy who held the team together, just lol. Sad fans stuck in a past that’s long gone. Without Maliq they don’t win 10 games. Fact. Who was playing? Laughable. The best player on the...

The SU basketball program is pretty comical lately. And by lately I mean a decade.

Chance hasn’t played.

lol. Staff and their sycophants have been selling next year going to be better for 10 years now. Show me.

SU isn't paying for Oats. Stop. Zero chance. The AD isn't that loose with money. Next hire will be mid-level HC.

21 years ago. Basketball tourney teams are winning with teams of assorted older talent who have D1 experience and success.

Just awesome news. Really great. So far the three players that I felt were the worst contributors to a mediocre team are the ones sticking around and the two of the most productive players are headed elsewhere. This blows. I wonder which previous SU recruit Red is going to bring in his place...

Ticket deposits aren't for another month and if it's the Judah, Mintz, Bell show, then I'll have some extra cash this year for various other hobbies.

That turn around fadeaway in traffic that connects at about a 15% rate. I know it must feel good when it does go through the net, but too often that's a defensive rebound and a break going the other way.

Well, two points: SU went 2-1 against NC State, so not a sweep, and without discussing anything else of his game, Bell is pretty elite at shooting the three. However, I agree with the SU couldn't do anything like this. And part of that is that 1) overall, I don't think NC State's W/L record...

They have more or less the same team as last year, plus Lance Jones, but their freshmen really stepped it up as sophomores.

That’ll do it for Duke and all these players as they’re rotated out for the next crop of superstar rookies.

I think burns has lost about 30lbs in March from carrying NC state.

NC State fans agree.

I thought Illinois’s offense looked a lot like Syracuse’s … and then they did that. They’re worse.

NC State had pretty good stats all season, their record just sucked.

Purdue gonna Purdue. Takes a tough man to make a tender chicken.

no one on Syracuse this season makes a play like that. Let alone twice.

Maybe I'll pick it back up. I think I was through episode three and lost interest.

Funny that the media aren't reporting him as a Fairmont St. player (didn't play much there either) where he played just as many seasons and graduated from.

I see lots of posters just can't quit stanning Peter Carey.

So Long Big Peter Carey.

Best wishes Peter.

I'd recommend that Gerry could probably get in on the Louisville job, but their AD is a disaster too.

The NCAA and colleges/universities have brought this on themselves because the revenue was sooooooo good and they didn't have to share. Zero sympathies. Since the 30s at least, they've been artificially maintaining semi-professional sports leagues with legally dubious rules and various levels of...

I think they will be able to continue to provide rock climbing walls, multiple dining facilties, 1+1 dorms, various administrators, directors, assistant directors, vice presidents of synergistic paradigm shifting, boutique majors, and possibly just maybe have a few adjuncts educate a classroom...