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I mean, if taken to its logical conclusion with respect to former Syracuse players...

Related: what kind of weirdo would line up for a forgettable 20-year-old college basketball player from a mediocre team to write his name on a piece of paper?

Maybe. Maybe he's talented enough to be a better overall producer. We won't know until he shows it. But objectively as high school kid isn't going to come in and be a better defender than a veteran strong college defender. It just doesn't happen, and it's bananas that a number of people (not...

Yeah...and freshmen are so rarely better than accomplished juniors. Especially defensively.

THIS. Brown: a) knows how to play the game of basketball and b) has got the requisite athleticism to do it at a high level (not at the 5, but that's another story). How many SU basketball players in the last decade check both those boxes? Like three?

Isn't he still coaching the defense at Middle Tennessee State?

Not a boomer. Also approve of this message. Bleep that noise, save it for minor-league hockey. College football games were more fun before "hosts" and DJs, and they're part of the reason why.

I'm with OP. Just another affectation in a weirdly affected culture. Short shorts, compression sleeves, coaches dressed like athleisure slobs, it's a strange sartorial time.

Which, really, should be accompanied by video every time it's referenced: (Spoiler: these highlights have lost none of their luster 24 years later.)

Which as a totally irrelevant aside was that much cooler on the Spectrum court than it would've been nowadays on those generic black and blue NCAA courts.

In overtime, to seal the win. In the midst of a pretty decent winning streak to start conference play after losing to Oklahoma State, IIRC. 2004-2005. I haven't seen that dunk since the night it happened. But oh it happened all right. Yeah, randomly plays definitely stick with me too.

My prejudice going in: they're overthinking things. Conclusion once the laughter over the existence of an "executive senior associate athletic director for external affairs" stopped: yeah, they're overthinking things.

Oh, they would do affordable in a hot second if they could put together financing. With construction costs and interest rates what they are, that's the easiest thing to build right now. Environmental concerns on those properties, though, that's the obstacle to residential. Retenanting the big...

I think they're openminded but got caught in a perfect storm. So now they're white-knuckling their way while hoping that aquarium construction and housing developments can bridge the gap until their project (still heavily entertainment-focused, but possibly with some of the medical, etc. uses...

Putting aside the concern about what their lenders might say ("NO"), converting 60,000 to 90,000 square foot floor plates to residential is no easy feat.

I love the randos. If your favorite lineup is a who's-who of the best players in school history, that's not interesting. Todd Burgan and Scott McCorkle, now THAT'S interesting.

Jadakiss, ironically, who's a bigger Syracuse fan than 99.9% of the (ahem) student-athletes who play at SU and mercenaries who coach there.

Funny - I thought the same thing. And sure enough, they were mobbed this morning.

Right. Once Windred Walton DNQed, Lazor would've been well-positioned to succeed. He, Burgan, and Hill actually would've made for a nice front line, offensively at least. And that was the fallback lineup. The initial frontcourt was Hill, Burgan, and some combination of Etan and Ovcina at the four.

This. Don't know why it took however-many-hundred posts for this point to be made, but it's everything. Autry's got to thread a needle on discipline in his first year, and it looks like it well while making some hard decisions.

It was fabulously funky as The Mission, soulless as Luna Loca, and now a nice mix between the two. Kind of generic, but it works aesthetically and it's a pleasant place to sit.

Got a chance to attend one of the soft open nights. It's solid. The space has never looked better.

It's a yuuuuuge space, and there's a parking garage directly across the street. Plenty big enough for a hotel. That said, the space adjacent to a ~20-night-a-year demand generator isn't where the next hotel is going to be built. Especially with hotel financing as difficult as it is right now.

Pre- value-engineering, yeah. It was cool.

He can't even spell "Sterling"! Of course he's not going to be good at a Very Important Job.

It was that way for 20 years, that's a red herring. It's just a cash grab; Ted wants his own Cobb County Braves stadium district and Virginia's prepared to give it to him.

Yep. Why play in someone else's downtown when you can use public money to build your own downtown and rake in the captive dollars?

Also this.

This. Best to Dino; he seemed like a good guy who brought a decent number of positive memories for a fanbase that probably can't expect much more from the program.

Scott Shafer is a more unstable Walter Sobchak.

I remember that game. I recall wishing that the Syracuse quarterback didn't have the desire to pass the ball to guys in dark-colored jerseys four times that day.

Well...Dungey's previous coach got Dungey's brains scrambled in garbage time, had zero succes on the field, and Dungey likely would've been a footnote if Dino hadn't entered the picture.

Such a Shafer mentality.

Yeah, he and Cora used to raise a decent chunk of change each year at the SPIN auction (is that still a thing?) by auctioning off dinner with the two of them.

Eh? Game 7 Uniforms | FSU

Last time they wore stupid-ass blue pants at FSU, Julian Whigham spent the night in the hospital. You'd think that would send them to the dustbin forever, but no.

Agreed. Also bear in mind that while basketball capacity might technically be reduced to 31,000, for practical purposes it's being reduced further. Long range view seats in 335 are one thing when you can pivot your hips 45 degrees toward the court on a backless bench. Within the constraints of...

I thought Communication and Rhetorical Studies covers spelling. No?

Calm down, Ghost.

Unless, of course, he went to Texas and played for Rick Barnes. Then he'd have lost in the second round of the NCAAs.

The only thing that'd make it better would be if the crown of the sign had been stylized to look like the original (awesome) Dome logo: Agreed, excellent job by SU on the sign: unobtrusive but gracious and appropriate.

Fixed!

"I'm gettin green like I'm supposed to," -- rival ADs, probably.

Eh, TBF they're purchasing it from someone who did what's being described above. Same net effect on supply, arguably, but it's a defensive purchase to get the inventory away from a problem investor.

Word. A demographic that lapped up the weird superfluity that is mobile ticketing will gradually accept anything.

Like, for instance, court-stormers wrecking the hoops after the UConn win in 2000 and then SU losing to Seton Hall the next week?

Your mom's pole is missing a don't care option.

Your mom has strong vanilla notes.

I can only read this in Norm MacDonald's voice for some reason, and it's glorious.