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Even if he was to become a new DC, we'd not see it, cuz he wouldn't stick around long enough. He was fine yesterday, a good shot from deep, grabbed a couple rebounds, defended a bit, stood around and watched the guards show off. Ok. All you get to expect in that kind of game really. Reviews...

Roosevelt Bowie Or Bouie. However SU wants to spell it (get it right you clowns), get him on staff. Imagine him walking in to a recruit's house. And he does (did) know how to teach, as I can remember him speaking at an SU basketball camp. From a few years ago, sure, but he knew what he...

I get that football generates / needs the money, but it would be nice if the fans' views mattered. I imagine most SU fans just don't care about playing most ACC schools, aside from other Big East refugees like Pitt and BC ... Football: Clemson, FSU, Miami. Basketball: Wake, UNC, Duke, NCSU...

What I see as the biggest problem with the returning players / portal is that Red has to pretty much make (or will be forced into making) a decision about the frontcourt like now: Is he going to go with a CENTER (portal or on roster already) with Brown and Freeman; is he going with Brown and...

isn't the ruling, you can play 30% of your games and still redshirt if injury related? so the 30% come at the end of the season, not the beginning, in the case of patterson (and westry).

I'm chuckling a bit at the free throws matter responses in this, in that "if SU had made their free throws, they'd have won." Sure, but that would've required them shooting at least 13-14, for 92.8%, to win. We're talking Syracuse here. Not Villanova, not Cornell, not a school with dead-eye...

The sea was angry that day, my friends...

What is really needed is a little less repetition between the sets of players ... McLeod, Hima, Patterson, and Carey give you height, and a little bit of scoring, and some D, but not enough to be a big factor, and little difference between them. Copeland, Mintz, and Starling, and possibly...

Burn the RPO playbook. Until they can figure out how to straight up pass the ball or run the ball, which includes blocking for those, do not use a game plan that makes it harder on the OL. kev

Cecil the Diesel Howard! No, wait, we already have a few running QBs who can't pass... Seriously, I just want someone to get a TD on the first drive. And I'm not talking about Tommy DeVito. And win, that would be nice too. Kev

I'm going to leave the non-field stuff alone. One poster referenced that places like East Lansing and others have successful programs even if located in not great spots. The places mentioned can bang out a 75K stadium for any game, any time. Has SU drawn that in two games this year? Of course...

The general response is ... if he does well, great, but do I personally care about that team? No. In fact, if they were to go 0-11, not many tears would be shed by college football fandom. Kev

I don't mind this signing. His highlights show that he at least knows what he's doing, which is way better than some of the stiffs this program has signed to be a PF/C. My only real concern is, the staff hasn't really shown much ability to take anyone in the 6'9+ 200/210ish range and by the time...

Title's a bit off, but I agree with the sentiment ... BURN IN HELL FOR ALL ETERNITY UNC (and there are others you could take with you)

Not that they've written about recently. I don't get why you as a staff can't go visit a kid in White Plains, but I guess that's too far to go for talent. I get maybe not travelling to SoCal to recruit Adams, but to not go to White Plains is lazy. Kev

So, did SU just wave the flag here when UCLA and Kansas got involved? Why is it you don't ever hear about SU coaches making last minute visits to a recruit to try and sway him? I can understand maybe not going there, but as I posted under Boogie's, the staff just seems quite apathetic to the...

Good for Judah. He's the type of talent who'll be fine. He's another one of these kids from HS who maybe wasn't a pure PG that SU would like to turn into one, and it worked with MCW (2 years) and Gbinje (3). That is not an instant process. What I think SU needs to do is find a better gameplan...

Seriously? Who's going to have this conversation with him and how's it going to go? Joe: "Stop with the hero ball shots. I've been doing it for 3+ years now, and it's me who takes them." JB: "Stop with the hero ball stuff like Buddy did for the last 4 years..." I disdain what SU's offense...

I don't get the complaining about Bell as a non-rebounder. JB had to have known that, the staff had to have known it too. When he was being recruited, there were boxscores posted in his thread, and there never were any dominant rebounding games. He'd either score a lot because he was hitting...

Sadly a painful box score to look at from last night, which is unfortunate.

Jason Hart. Maybe add Stevie to the staff. someone who can coach ball movement.

You cannot compare Girard to Cooney or many others in that Cooney was a supporting player who was capable of going off for a game or a few. The talent was much better. And that's the role Girard (and Buddy honestly) should've have had or should be. He is not talented enough with the ball as a...

He should be disqualified from talking about anyone's defense, given that he has had a team with Buddy and Joe, and he ran them into the ground minutes-wise with no concern about how poorly their EE-fence was. A little touchy about "1-0 so far, and that's all that matters", methinks.

If you were to force JB out, the moment occurred when SU landed on probation a second time, putting him on a list of maybe one who has gotten caught for NCAA violations at the same school twice. At the time, it was enough, and maybe the NCAA looks at that and doesn't give the penalties they...

What you're missing is, if Girard takes 20 or so shots, he's creating a ton of opportunities for SU's offensive rebounds. And if SU can convert on them, then the coach can say his 6-21 game was good in the same way Buddy's 8-27 game vs Buffalo was, because SU "... got the offensive rebounds on...

The problem with him taking 20 shots, or whatever honestly, is that he hasn't shown that he takes all GOOD shots. So many are of the "heat check" variety, even when he's cold. I much rather see them run an offense that heavily involves Jesse instead of defaulting to Girard chucking up some...

Provides lots of opportunities for offensive rebounds for Jesse, Benny, Maliq, etc ...

Maybe. But SU is not at the point as a program where they can start to seriously recruit a kid as a second choice where their first choice commits elsewhere on 9/2, and then expect him to jump at their offer. A few years back they tried that same tactic with Quincy Ballard, recruiting him a week...

"it would be nice if you came back, but you probably aren't going to improve your draft stock", not necessarily, "we NEED you to come back." even if showing a 22ppg, 8rpg season, shooting 45%, his overall profile would still be the same.

While this is likely true, wth were the staff doing relative to Elmarko and Elijah prior to this spring? The timelines suggest they offered Ducharme at the Elite camp last summer, and offered the other two in April of this year. Both of those guys are in Jersey, it's not like they had to...

It was a response to more than just yours, but yours sure provided a good lead in. I'm not going to rag more on Joe, or Buddy, I think they are both decent supporting players. They are good-to-great shooters with flaws, and you can hide them if the team is built correctly, but last year...

Yes, and the other 5 played on teams that had winning records. Any conversation with the words "Joe Girard" and "defense" is completely pointless. That he was the best defensive guard on last year's team, at least who played more than 15 mins a game, is a joke, as who he beat was equally as...

They've always done plenty of it, by the goal line, on first down; it usually draws penalties.

Obviously, there's only one conclusion from this thread and that article: Hope you don't get drafted by the Trailblazers. Roy, Bowie, Walton, Ogden? Dayum. Kev

There supposedly is a second guard out there who could help with ballhandling, but some of his turnovers are awful. The one leading to Moore's dunk - who exactly was that pass to again? - and when he simply dribbled the ball out of bounds at halfcourt when facing a double team. That was weak.

could not resist ... kev

This kid could fill a huge need as a weakside shotblocker/rebounder. Something this current team really lacks. You get around Edwards - or he's raced way outside to cover for the awful D by the other four non-defenders - and you don't have anyone to challenge at the rim. That sort of player...

Their analytics are going to come out stellar with wins @Wisconsin and over Texas Tech. Plus a few other top 20 wins at the time. One bad loss to UVa; one loss @Marquette in first game after starting SG broke his finger, missing the last three and possibly two-three more weeks. Oh ... psst...

I hope Josh is healthy, and both him and Tucker can run opponents into the ground. Which I also hope lessens the amount of running the QB does. Kev

I get tired of repeating this. The class may be good in a year or two. We shouldn’t expect much next year. -- I wouldn't necessarily say JB's talent eval skills have gotten worse, but I don't think he puts out the effort to go after kids as he used to, choosing instead to settle for easier guys...

The single best 1-3-1 defense I have ever seen, and it goes back a LONNNNNG time, was Georgetown's with probably Wingate running the baseline, and Patrick Ewing in the middle. You couldn't score on that. Edwards ain't that, but I'd rather him in the lane than running to a corner, and there...

This was my laughter in the press conference. He was asked about UVa getting the ball inside, and his response was "For us to change our coverages to keep it out of there, Jesse has to get to the corner for the jump shot. He's unable to do that. They got it inside the whole game." How does...

As the thread has drifted a bit ... More than two? No, but Gonzaga might take offense to being left off the list, and Nova has done a little more than just make two FFs in that time. I'm of the opinion that you're not replacing a coach in his prime, with his best teams. You're simply...

A) Being able to beat your man one on one with an iso move or down the court on the break. B) Being able to D up on a guy and not get blown by the majority of the time.

SU has four key players who bring the exact same good skills and exact same limitations. If they spaced around that's a start, but SU does not have the right sort of ball movement to free them for open shots. Nova was outstanding at times in whipping the ball around and finding guys wide...

Edwards was the only player to attempt a free throw? Wow. SU's players averse to contact, or getting in the lane? And his only FG was the highlight dunk. SU *SHOULD* run a bit of offense through him, as it's gotta be at least as decent of a chance as some of the chuckers are 'shooting' from...

Hey, he did have a +/- of +1 yesterday, the only one on the team on the positive side, so maybe coach could mention that, as opposed to trashing him, and only him, after an earlier loss. ANYBODY would be fine if given the opportunity to play with the freedoms some of the others have. I...

This coaching thing should be fairly easy, I'd think. Red is currently the Associate Head Coach. GMac is not. Ergo, Red gets the job. At least based on current circumstances. And to get back to the class rankings, this is not a top ten class in that it is not going to help you immediately...

I would like him at SU. Just wonder how he'll get "the chance to shine" given the unrepentant gunner who currently plays the position, and who JB has already shown a preference for over a more talented PG. JJ's better; I hope he chooses SU.

Oh stop it. A single assistant, who is not the top assistant in the pecking order, is not the end-all/be-all as far as why a kid either chooses to commit to, and actually enrolls at, SU or does not. If you doubt that, then look at what JB said related to Dior's commit/uncommit. "I never...