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They’d need to build a theme park on the Quad if the goal is to entertain little kids for 3 hours. It’s just not something worth worrying about for the number of people it affects.

Details about the proposed Super League...

Obviously, the days of having McNabb, Johnson and Downing all battle it out for QB1 are lonnnnng gone. However, it will be incumbent on the staff to have someone capable of playing spot minutes, or a game or 2, if McCord gets banged up. I'm not down at all with an ACC-title-game-or-bust...

There’s no more perfect way for him to leave SU than to take a shot at a fair and respected writer on his way out the door. I long for the day when SU actually vettes guys in HS and doesn’t sign dummies anymore. And I generally *liked* Judah as a player.

I don’t need to speak for Dash, but that seemed obvious. Marek had no choice but to suck it up and play the 5 because JB couldn’t put together a roster. Brown isn’t stuck like that.

The weirdest thing here is that there was nothing on the pay side about him leaving! How could that be?!

Let’s be real, though. We don’t have a 5 on the roster who’s all that good. We have beanpoles and projects.

I’m sure. All I know is that I’ve watched a slew of wide bodies pound the glass for all manner of teams over the past 2 weeks. And we haven’t had one of those types in eons. For SU “difference maker” could be as much as a mid-major who can give us 22 minutes and 7 boards.

Agree. Just surprising that his departure may confirm that we’re not planning to go crazy hard after a real center this offseason? Because we should have been planning for that since last October. Or did he just not want to chance it?

Bummer. Would have been interesting to see him play as a 4 (assuming we’ll have an actual center or 2 on the roster next season). I guess at this point it’s not really worth following things until guys show up for school in August.

Why would anyone hate him?

Why would anyone hate him?

I like Girard… but I want everyone associated with Clemson to be miserable. They deserve to be miserable.

Geez man, can you spoiler all of that? Now I have no reason to watch the next two season.

It really was the Titanic of takes on this board. Everyone who wasn't in a P5 conference was going to rapidly fade into Bolivian. Since then Nova and UConn have four titles between them. But those 2 Sweet 16 runs keep me warm at night. ;)

Can we stop recruiting idiots? It’s not like these guys don’t show signs of this nonsense when they’re in high school. None of them are good enough for us to put up with their bad attitudes and terrible behavior.

Not the students, not the players, not the coaches, not alums. Not an existing pop metal or hip hop song. Hire professionals and do it right. W. W. E.

I say this everytime this topic comes up, and I’m always right… SU should toss some money at the WWE’s music team to write an original entrance song, and also create an entrance video. Literally no entity on Earth does entrances better than the WWE.

They correctly recognized that they never had any hope in football. Hence the move back to the Big East. I’m sure they’ll be devastated if we win titles in a sport they don’t play.

So did I… in 2006.

It’s a shame how not being in a Power 5 conference has ruined their hoops program. That’s probably my favorite colossally stupid take that’s ever been offered here.

That’s a terribly mean thing to say about JJ’s butt.

I’ll never understand how college basketball is officiated. Offensive players can drive totally out of control and get blocking fouls. Post guys can just bang into their defenders to their hearts content. No call. But God forbid a defender barely graze a guys shoulder. Foul.

Once upon a time, conferences largely existed to make scheduling easier. And since they were all geographically logical, and had like-minded schools as members, it made sense to organize that way. Obviously those days are long gone, and conferences exist now almost solely as corporate, media...

That was a fullsome @ssk!cking. Unbelievable.

SU fans are well aware of that dynamic. ;)

I guarantee you that if SU players from the 70s, 80s, 90s, 00s and 10s had the ability to transfer like players do now, most of them would have bailed instead of hanging around to “face competition” or whatever oldsters tell themselves to seem tougher. It’s not a generational thing. It’s a...

Well, of course. But I watched this conference all year and it’s really not good.

It’s both. Our conference stinks. Also, NIT?!

The ACC is so so so bad.

In fairness, it was valuable to advertisers because of scale. It’s been cheaper for Bojangles to buy a league wide sponsorship, hit all of their target markets, and endure the inefficiency of also hitting upstate NY western PA and eastern MA. Just like it was cheaper a few years back for...

The only real question at this point is whether administrators will realize that it makes more sense to thoughtfully create a Super League of 50-60 teams that can negotiate with media properties and collectively bargain with athletes… or will they not realize that because they’re reactive dolts...

Nailed it. Here’s my hot take of the day… no one on this year’s team would have started on any team we had from 2009 to 2014. Maybe — maybe — Judah starts over Scoop in 2011. But that’s it. We need better basketball players. And a bunch of them.

I really enjoyed watching Copeland play. For most of the year he was my favorite player on the team. However, something about his demeanor definitely changed over the course of the season. He could be a bit much at times by season’s end, which I assume was an off court thing too. He...

Not the least bit surprising. Can’t say he didn’t have an opportunity here. Started every game, played 23 MPG. Played more minutes than that in 17 games. And just 8 double-digit scoring games. Best to try somewhere else. Good luck to him.

What on earth are you "spiraling about? It's a college basketball team. They didn't get a bid to the real tournament, which everyone knew was going to happen. And they're not going to the silly tourney that only low/mid-majors care about. That's the story. You know the facts. What does SU...

It likely won't be this way forever. At some point in the near-ish future, college football and hoops will be professionalized. Then there will likely be contracts which will limit the transfer process.

That's fine, but if you release a statement in the forest, and no one is around to read it, does it exist? More seriously, who would have covered that? We weren't on the bubble. And "rightfully belong"? That'd have been laughed at and meme-ified.

Gotcha. I just don't think it's anything worth "getting in front of". It's the NIT, it's a silly tournament that no major conference team wants to be in. "NIT" is a punchline.

What "perception" is going to change by going to the NIT and getting bounced? I don't understand your point here.

This is a gigantic nothing-burger. No one outside of this fan base cares AT ALL about whether we were invited to the NIT, or declined. Hell, I bet a majority of our fan base doesn't care either. Put out statement, or don't, whatever.

Looking at it through a different lens... what a disaster Syracuse has seemingly been for the ACC. They sure thought they were getting a different program that what we've given them.

Again, I said what I said because some people push back against RK being a douchey, addled jerk by saying that he runs a successful finance firm. My point is that one can be a douchey, addled jerk and run a finance firm. And it doesn’t matter if it’s finance or anything else.

Totally fair. Like I always say, college officiating is atrocious.

Not necessarily. I chose my words carefully. One can be decent and smart and be successful in finance. But one doesn’t *have* to be. Clearly that’s RK. I said what I did because when I bring up CTE and Booze and general D’baggery I get “but he’s successful”. So yeah, one can be successful and...

Seriously, I would never have guessed we've won 6. Yesterday I asked a friend if we've made it past our first game more than once. It's 4. 4 out of 11.

Guy is an idiot who should shut the hell up. CTE. Probably booze. Also a jerk. Also reinforces my thought that one can be successful in finance through sheer force of will and connections. Not necessarily by being smart or decent.

The ACC has played tournaments in Brooklyn. Last night was in Washington, DC. They literally cannot play them at MSG because the Big East has a contract to be there at the same time the ACC plays their tournament. I miss how much fun the old Big East tourney was. SU was great, and I was 20...

Oh, for sure, I get that. Just mean that we're always, always, kvetching about foul discrepancies. But for the most part we never play the kind of game that tends to yield foul discrepancies in our favor.