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I lied? I was wrong. Big difference wise guy. The point was that the Dome renovation was already in the planing process when JW took over.

What is going on here is more than the national decline it college sports attendance. If it wasn’t we would still be first or second in attendance nationally in basketball. I also think it’s more than win loss record. We are unwatchable in basketball (again). We were unwatchable in football...

Does boxing even exist anymore?

I never said it was. I said apparently fans agree with me because attendance sucks. Maybe you missed that last sentence in your haste to make a smart arse reply.

ok. Their hand was forced for the roof. That’s like 90% of the Dome Renovation cost. SU made some nice additions to the Dome for people that care about cup holders, seatbacks, trash sound systems and a lighting system. I myself care about watching good basketball and football and I could care...

Ok so I guess it was done because the Carrier Dome roof was at end of life. Either way their hand was forced.

The Dome renovation was mandated to get in the ACC and it was well in motion before JW. I have been to the old Dome a zillion times and the new Dome maybe a dozen. I like the old Dome because I could give a dame about all the fluff. The teams that have played in the new Dome have mostly sucked...

JW is the AD we needed 20 or even 30 years ago. No one gives a damn about facilities now. If we are equivalent to a 3 star hotel and the next school is 4 stars but we offer $50,000 more in NIL. Guess where he’s more than likely going.

Not hire a clearly unqualified candidate in Red.

It’s a miracle it ever happened. There are some good YouTube documentaries about how close it was to not happening. MTV unplugged was an awesome show.

Ha. Not in their wheel house.

I hope so

I hope so for my sanity

Color me not shocked that SU continues to make horrible moves if true.

Syracuse athletics has been chronically sick for a long time. I wholesale change of leadership might not be the worse thing for SU.

That’s not right but unfortunately that’s the times we live in. Everyone is compared to Hitler if they don’t share your view.

Give me a break. He has been handled with kid gloves compared to everywhere else on Earth. The media gives him a hall pass every press conference.

Only in the delusional land of SU sports would anyone bat an eye for firing Red ASAP.

Might as well have lit that money on fire or chucked it in to the wind. What a waste.

I wish I shared your optimism. I have very little faith in the leadership to do what needs to be done to fix basketball. I kind of get football. I don’t think we are ever going to be a consistently good team ever again but I think we should be able to compete at a high level in basketball...

It’s almost the opposite. Syracuse is were you come to regress as a basketball player.

I thought it was a horrible hire the second it was announced. Red was my favorite player when I was in high school but he should have never been SU’s head coach under any circumstance. The fact he was given the job shows how whacked out the priorities are on the hill.

I got a bunch of shares when they first announced they were building here just to have rooting interest in a future local company. I know not the greatest investment strategy but it’s worked out nicely along with Nvidia stock I got shortly after Covid.

Unfortunately we do. That’s how we got stuck with an unqualified candidate last time around.

I think our little chit chat has run its course. I’ll be sure not to respond to any of your comments defending your drinking buddy JW in the future. You’re clearly bias on this subject.

Thanks for the career advice chief. My career is and has been rolling just fine for 30 years. He is the head of the AD. The AD has been a disaster his entire tenure. If he gets his hand forced by obvious imbeciles everytime he has a head coaching decision for the biggest program in the AD, why...

Listen. I’ve heard all the speculation that all these decisions were forced upon him and maybe they were. If the chancellor or BOT won’t let him do his job why stay. Especially when they are so clearly epically bad decisions. Me personally, I would have bounced.

Ya, he blew through all his goodwill he banked the previous season. He is basically starting from scratch again.

Good idea since he has been the AD that stopped the JB to Hop succession plan, let JB burn down the house he built and hired someone that shouldn’t have sniffed the SU head coaching job.

That’s what happens when you let the program slide into obscurity for a decade.

I don’t think Syracuse has fickle fans. We had good numbers for a while in football and great numbers in basketball when we were no longer competitive programs. Years of getting beat down and no faith in the coaches and school leadership will kill most fan bases.

I said it 5 minutes after Red was named HC.

Ya. Loses like yesterday are as sure as the sun setting in the west as long as we have Red. My wife thinks I’m maturing but in reality I’ve just lost all hope with Syracuse basketball. If SU ever pulls their head out of their arse and hires a real coach I’ll be back to a maniac.

Basketball is a game of runs and red is a run killer for us and a run extender for the opponent. The game shouldn’t have been that close to begin with. Red is the master at keeping opponents in the game that we should crush. If you let garbage teams hang around you’re going to lose some of them.

ya JW is a great AD. Overseeing this awesome stretch of football, basketball and lacrosse is quite the feat. You JW fanboys are even harder to take seriously. Your like the North Korean citizens that think Kim Jong Un is a great leader.

We absolutely could compete with Indiana (the historically worst P5 team ever) for his services if we could come up with the money.

Cignetti should be our coach but instead we hired a DB coach. I like Brown but he’s not in the same league as Cignetti.

The kid has committed to like 6 different teams. He’s been in college longer than Bluto from Animal House and he’s done zip. Now at the latest school he is leading the NCAA in scoring out of no where and they are holding him back? I see it a bit different. The coaches at this school are the...

3rd year in a row no SEC team in the title game. I expect them to push for NIL and transfer limits because it is clearly hurting them. The SEC had an almost monopoly on the national championship for 10 to 15 years before the NIL and transfer era.

Stick a fork in him. He’s done.

If they were hell bent on an SU guy then they should have listened to JB and made Gerry the coach. Now Gerry has zero chance because SU burnt their mulligan on a coach that most sane people knew would fail spectacularly.

Like they should have done the first time. There are some soft people on the hill calling the shots.

I can’t cheer against SU and there is no need to. The inevitable WtheF loses and blowouts will come and Red will finally get bounced. JW and the BOT will have their mulligan. I hope for my sake they hit a home run with the next hire. I am so indifferent to SU sports and college sports in...

I won’t be apologizing because it’s BS. Stop getting your information from the very people responsible for the atrocious hiring of Red. Of course they are going to deflect and act like due diligence was done to try and justify their decision. Do you expect them to come out and say they made an...

Give me a break. If there was a national search and they thought Red was the best candidate and didn’t get him on the cheap, the decision makers on the Hill are even dumber than I thought.

We may probably don’t make the cut in that situation based on the performance of our basketball and football programs.

The easiest path is often not the right one. Most people that can take off the orange colored glasses and look at the hiring of Red objectivity knew this was probably going to be a disaster. So here we are three seasons later and the program has slid into the abyss of college basketball...

March and April blow now that men’s basketball sucks but the other 10 months are perfect in my opinion. Those two months are awful. Very little sun, lots of rain/snow, between seasons so you can’t do winter or summer activities outside.

LSU just spent truck loads of money to buy out the old coach and get their new one but if they want one of our guys they will probably get them.

SU football. One step forward and two steps back. The quarter century trend continues.