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I was a freshman and this was the very first college basketball game I ever attended. Sitting in the old student section roughly mid-court. Needless to say, I was hooked. I have many great memories of my years at SU and this one is right up there. Pearl also happened to be a sweetheart of a...

GEICO ‘Scoop There it is‘ is far and away the best. I'm also liking the Werewolf girl Vanilla Coke commercial.

Alford was the right call before they hired Miller and he’s the right call now.

Options. A good problem to have.

You are 100% correct. My bad. Villanova, 3X Champs and I would say that ‘Nova should be ranked higher than UConn. Better program all around.

I don’t know about you, but a program with 4 NCs poses a better argument to me than a team who’s got ‘the best record in the history of the Big East’ And btw - UConn & Georgetown have 7 BE tourney titles. Syracuse has 5. Regular season BE titles - UConn - 10, Syracuse, 10. And really...

I don’t know you can discount National Championships if you are ranking teams in term of historical program success when putting them in ‘tiers’. Most Championships: 1. UCLA - 10 2. Kentucky - 8 3. UNC - 6 4. Duke - 5 4. IU - 5 6. UConn - 4 7. Kansas - 3 8. Louisville - 2 8. Michigan State -...

What about the objective Syracuse fan - you like that one? Personally, I've always been fond of the delusional one.

UConn has 4 NCs, Indiana has 5. Sorry, but Syracuse doesn’t belong in the same tier as those two. Huskies & Hoosiers getting shafted by being in tier 2.

If it turns out that the roof doesn’t give the place an obvious dome shape Then calling it ‘dome’ is kinda silly. Time passes, things change.

I think it's inevitable that it gets a corporate sponsor's name. You just have to hope they can get a sponsor whose name isn't ridiculous. KFC YUM! Center is ridiculous. Citifield not so much Yankee Stadium is Yankee Stadium but it is 'sponsored' by Bank of America and there is lots of...

I agree with every bit of this post. #32 deserves it!

I like Jesse but Akok is much better than Edwards right now.

Always?

College officiating is bad, I'll give you that. But an organized campaign against ND by 'ACC refs' is kinda ridiculous. Conferences dont have their own refs and for there to be a conspiracy there would have to be an understanding between more than a few parties that this is what is going to...

Almost nailed it. Well done sir.

I understand that. I’m not saying hire one of those guys because they played here, I’m saying hire them because they learned from JB and coached with him. I’d like to see continuity. Syracuse Basketball has a personality and it’s a good, successful one. It’s a brand basically and it works.

Why would you want them to hire ‘outside the family’? Don’t you think there are enough qualified candidates with ties to the program and SU? I do. Syracuse has a style of play and those that have learned from Boeheim are uniquely qualified to continue that. Tweak it, bring their own...

The next Syracuse coach is either Hopkins, Autry or McNamara.

I hear what you're saying but I think the fact that the Orange beat those mediocre teams on the road after those teams beat our boys at home mitigates SU being just mediocre. Methinks they might just be a little better than that, or at least becoming better.

If the basketball team was playing the way we've come to expect for the past 35 years or so, this wouldn't even be a question. Football team hits a not unexpected speed bump but I dont think anybody has lost faith in Dino (and if they have, then there's no pleasing those people), lax team...

My pleasure. Anytime.

I hate to be the one to break it to you but Syracuse will not be getting back into the mix this season.

Two mediocre teams. Home in the Dome, so the Orange get the W, 72-65.

That's my point. Dont be hypocrites like that. A win is a win and a loss is loss.

C'mon man, Florida was ranked 15 and UConn beat them. Give them credit.

I get that Coach is a curmudgeon and that's fine, but when a reporter asks a question, the answer 'did you watch the game? Well, then you dont need to ask that question' is just not necessary. The reporter has a job to to do and is asking for the coach's insight, opinion and perspective. I...

Lot of guys throwing stones from their glass houses here. Theres a lot for a Syracuse fan to hate and laugh at about UConn, but every program has these issues. Kids making dumb decisions. Happens all the time, everywhere.

Whether you think the education is worth the money or not, thats the cost. Whether or not the student-athletes take advantage of that opportunity is up to them. Either way, it's a thing of great value that is provided to them in exchange for their athletic performance.

This is a good point. How does one stop those schools with deep-pocketed alumni from doing something like this and gaining unfair advantage over other schools that do not have like resources? I would think that there may be a cap placed on the amounts that athletes could receive in these...

The NCAA has backed off their initial threat to expel schools. What else they can and will do remains to be seen.

What Tebow doesn’t mention in his ‘rah-rah, it’s all about the team’ sermon is that the universities and the media are making BILLIONS off of the athletes, and the vast majority will never have a chance to make any money at all off of their athletic endeavors. If nothing else, the kids that...

Rodman is a mess. I'd keep him as far awy from any impressionable kids as I could.

Of course!

Mine's back.

Lame.

Personally, I'm much more of a fan than an analyst, so you wont get anything of substance from me. The occasional 'Oh wow! Nice shot!' but other than that, not much.

All three of my kids applied and were accepted to SU. My youngest even got into Newhouse. They all went elsewhere. Hurt my heart but not my wallet.

I'm with you. I'm so curious about Girard. Gotta see him shoot.

Good luck.

Sounds good in theory, but would UConn football draw at Yankee Stadium? They haven't even been able to get their own fans at their home stadium. Would playing Syracuse in NYC in football change that? SU-UConn hoops at MSG is a whole different ballgame - literally - does SU-UConn football...

I dont know if that's true, but Mohegan Sun does have a 10,000 seat arena on site. I'm guessing the games will be played there, not a ballroom.

Well, I’m not certain what is ‘odd’ about it and I’m not dying on any hills either. I have a point of view that may be different from yours. I like discussing these things on forums like this because I find it interesting to hear other’s opinions. I find it especially interesting when...

This is a bad example. Rutgers never beat SU, not consistently anyway and as you said, the one year they did, SU won the whole thing. Not much to crow about. You have to make up your mind here. Are they irrelevant, meaningless or do they not count? Maybe not but if I'm a Miami fan, at...

I think 'don't count' and 'meaningless' kinda mean the same thing. Correct, and winning games in the 'meaningless' regular season affects tourney seeding which effects odds of advancing. I'm glad I made you laugh, people do generally think I'm an amusing guy. St. John's was a much a Big...

Okay but what if the situation was reversed? St. John's had the better program and the Orange couldn't sniff the tournament yet we beat the Johnnies three years in a row? You'd be crowing to every St. John's fan how their stellar program couldn't even beat our loser team and you'd be right...

You say that UConn and St. John's beating SU consistently the last few years doesn't matter, doesn't count, whatever. Is that how you feel immediately after those games? Because I don't and it bothers me a lot. Sure Syracuse has the better, more consistent program than the other two over the...

I’m not saying they are a better program right now or that beating Syracuse means they’ve been successful. All I’m saying is that criticism from fans of a team/program that they’ve been able to best more than not recently, isn’t the best look.