Stumpy, this UVA team in my mind gets a pass for Covid crap at the worst time possible. I hope the worst kneejerk UVA fans would be understanding. Your question however was valid with our worst Syracuse.com types in mind.
I can see you wait with great expectation for a Syracuse loss today so you can come on here and continue your unfounded, emotionally based attack on Boeheim. Well, that's not going to happen. We are too strong, too proud and too ORANGE to lose to the West Virginia Mountaineers today. Our team is going to bring it to them today for 40 minutes. You can mark that down.
You have just made an awful post. I have no expectation for a syracuse loss. You have no basis to make that statement. My statement that we have been mediocre for five years or so is an emotionally charged attack on Boeheim ? OK, what is your definition of mediocre ? As somebody very famous (Parcells) once said, " you are what your record says your are."
I’m sorry that you unknowingly walked into a Jerry Springer episode with your very polite post.
If you see my post as being negative, you only view the most orange tinged posts as being positive. Anyone that pays attention to my posting can attest that I'm one of the more even posters on the board. If you see the part you bolded as being negative, I don't know what to say. I simply said we don't know.
Wasn’t the Carmelo/Gerry team a media darling as well? I remember we were the youngest team in the tourney, and many said that’s why we wouldn’t win it. But I think fans all over the country loved us.
Thanks Hoo, we’ll take it! Tony was so so gracious in defeat yesterday. A real class act as always.
Did I say anything about fireable? Why are you attempting to escalate things beyond a rational exchange of opinions? I mean, beyond the fact that's your M.O.
Most programs that undergo NCAA investigation and penalties fall into total mediocrity and failure, that's what it is intended to do. This program didn't have a losing season and went on deep runs in the NCAAT under those conditions and is now in the 2nd year of full scholarship availability and has a lot of nice players in development. This season was a wreck early on because of covid stops and Sidibe's injury. Jesse couldn't come back from Holland because of travel restrictions and when he did get back was on a qteen. Then the team had 2 covid beaks and lost a month of practice time, which further stemmed his development. If the season had gone as normal, Sidibe would have played most of the minuted and Jesse would have developed more and they, would be 2 quality deep at center. Somehow these facts escape your perceptive vision.
And the 2010 team was one of the most fun teams to watch and very likeable.
I feel like we’ve generally always been fun to watch (except for the combo guard and LENGTH rock fight era) and likable. Easily the most fun to watch team in the original Big East’s heyday.
Because all season long I've had to witness and endure a vicious and unending attack on the program, the coach and his son, and it really has been ugly.
Oh, stop.
And Kadary's had some tendinitis to deal with. Who would of knew, the coaching staff, that's who.
Oh. I thought it was “he can’t shoot, and teams play off him and it hurts the offense.” Guess that narrative was abandoned?
I think the world of Kadary at point guard. I'm sure the coaching staff does as well. I leave it up to the paid professionals to direct his development.
Getting ranked again and not being on the bubble year after year. Not that translates to long runs in the tourney.
There have been times that we were frustrating, maybe because we were accustomed to previously elite teams. I remember some of the late '90's teams that had trouble scoring early in games. There was discussion about whether the clapping until the first score tradition should end because it may have been putting too much pressure on the team to score. Those were tough to watch at times. The dysfuction of 2002 with bad team chemistry was tough to watch.
Yeah, there have been stretches. But it seems like you hear of a lot of Syracuse fans who got on board in the 80’s, that have no connection to the school or area. They just liked watching Cuse play. The Pearl through Owens years in particular.
As does the university. Why do you come to a sports message board? Are you expecting to come here to only see everyone kiss the feet of the players and staff? It's not as if critiquing players and coaches is a new thing. Whole industries are based on it.
Sure. That's me. That's when I was a kid. I grew up on those teams. But that's how most teams grow a fanbase. They have an era of success. I doubt the Pittsburgh Steelers had much of a fanbase prior to the 70's superbowl era. The New Orleans Saints had few fans at one point and the ones they had wore paperbags on their heads at the games. The Chicago Bulls were a laughing stock pre Jordan. That's sports.
