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[QUOTE="Brooky03, post: 1320358"]
The game has not evolved so much over the course of two seasons that Boeheim was somehow able to churn out productive offense after productive offense but now he's no longer able to do so.  There has been tons of success and production after the LeMoyne loss, so this is a personnel issue (due to unexpected departures), not a coaching issue.

ACC competition is not significantly stronger or better at beating the zone than Big East competition was.  In fact, to this point, I'd say the old Big East was much more of a gauntlet, and we'd probably have a losing conference record this season if we were in the old Big East.  Everybody wants to act like the sky is falling because a team that overachieved for 25 games lost control at the end of the season and because this team is one of the 5 worst in the history of Boheim's tenure.  It happens.  We're a long way off from considering this a trend in the wrong direction.  Elite programs slump.  It happened to Kentucky in a huge way not too long ago, it's happened at Kansas, it happened very recently at UNC, and even Duke has experienced 1 or 2 seasons of lackluster performances.  There's no need to try to assess blame on the coaching strategy that has worked forever as a scapegoat for a lack of success.  It's hard to stay at the very, very, very top for a long time.  If it wasn't, it wouldn't be prestigious.  Syracuse is a top 10 basketball program in the history of the sport because of Jim Boeheim.  Call me crazy, but I'll trust that continuing to run the zone that has made us one of the most feared defenses in the game and continuing to run a proven offense that has won us 20+ games a season, is a good idea.
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