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[QUOTE="CU44SE, post: 5084354, member: 2196"]
The elephant in the room that no one wants to acknowledge.  Maybe Red is in over his head in terms of the portal, roster management, assistant coaching hires.

Look over to the football side. Less history for the program, lack of program success over the past 20 years and Fran has revolutionized the recruiting and hiring of assistants.

It’s not just one thing.  Fran has assembled an amazing cast of coaches, got support from NIL (no way are we top 30 in college football NIL) but he has been able to grab top notch transfers and high school recruits.

I just feel as if everyone is bending over backwards to blame everything else except Red.  Maybe he will learn from this but I think the assistant coaching hiring for basketball have been extremely questionable, transfer portal plus/minus has been a net negative, and the available NIL funds are apparently lacking.

Looking from the outside it doesn’t make a ton of sense that the basketball program that is one of the best in the country is so hamstrung by all of these issues, meanwhile Football is thriving with all these hires, portal transfers, and recruits.  Seems like Fran is doing more with less than what Red is doing.

Edit: I also find it fascinating we wouldn’t partake in this stuff with Jessie Edwards who is a better player and had a history with Syracuse but Eddie Lampkin. So who the heck knows what’s going on.
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