Every little piece of information is more and more damning. I don’t expect and will not begrudge the administration if there isn’t a midseason firing, but if he’s around next year, I’m worried that’ll be the nail. But Louisville is back to being Louisville. So there’s hope.
you can toss out the old record books. every stat is now an asterisk . kids today playing 6 years ?
public relations and recruiting...players like him and want to play for him...(although if he keeps sucking theres no way that will last)
perfect example of changing a coach and changing the performance...pochettino took over for berhalter and its night and day.
lets be real here...how many of us in red's position would walk away ?
Thanks for clarifying. I also agree with you why we hired him. I'm at a point where all the money in the world cannot hide Red's flaws. Just my opinion. It makes it tough when one of your own fails and that is where we're at...
Gross executed orders
You're welcome. I'm as frustrated as anyone. I used to have an orange rabbit foot that I carried to games when I was a little boy. Been a fan since I was 6.
Bad timing on starting to shot the ball well - if they had just shot, say, 47/37/72 in earlier games, we probably would 2 or 3 more wins.
At least Cuffe gets to the rim. I remember Louis “the chair” McCroskey getting blocked before he could get to then rim on roughly 97% of his drives.
Yeah, me too. It was not a popular opinion on this board though. However, I think that hire would have gotten us back to regular ncaa appearances. He would have righted the ship rather than sink it to where it is now. It would have been a bold choice and clearly show everyone that we're serious.
You are not kidding last year whenever someone suggested Pitino it was pretty much responded with negativity with pictures of blood sucking vampires...we are simply too good too ethical too moral to hire someone like Pitino.
Rick was never and I mean never getting hired at SU. He was a complete mess with the NCAA and SU just went through their second probation. SU wanted no part of his history with the NCAA. He could have volunteered and never got the job. Fans have been barking about Pitino for years and all it was is a lot of hot air. I can’t believe fans are still talking about it like it was ever an option.
He’s also a NYC guy who was born there, has family there and has never hidden his love for NYC. There were rumors about UNLV, Illinois and even Maryland making overtures to him while at Iona - St John’s was always going to be his choice.
I don't mean to be too harsh. I apologize for that. Syracuse should never be a fringe tournament team.
With the exception of year 1 in the ACC. We have not played to the level of what the program was in the Big East days. It’s a shame because you include Pitt and Louisville fans as well that probably feel they haven’t played up to the level they were in the Big East most of the time as well. It was supposed to be the best basketball conference year in and out when all of us joined. I am biased, but i definitely see our downward trend as a program, with a downward trend in the overall popularity of College Basketball. The tourney is still a huge deal, but the sport, especially in November and December is not just a backseat to the NFL and College Football, but the 3rd row of the car. Would definitely help the sport if we get our act together since we have a huge fair weather bandwagon fan base that is completely disengaged not just in Syracuse basketball, but by association College Basketball.
the thing with the old BIG EAST was every dog had it's day. between 1981/91 9 different teams won or shared titles. Georgetown , Syracuse, ST john's , Villanova, BC, Pitt , U conn, and even providence and seton hall all had their runs winning conference titles and BET titles. even the teams we admitted later like miami, ND, tech and louisville all had their moments. We've done absolutely nothing in the ACC . it's actually quite embarrassing how bad we've been in this conference and especially ACCT.
