I just want to say that I really enjoy your posts, especially these types. They give me justified enthusiasm!
Thank you SU in Hershey. Much appreciated. I love to see the way the teams are developing.
Football seems to be in the throes of coming around the bend to something very good with the new coaches and some of the new players. We'll have to see how they all work or blend together when the coaches get them this summer pre - season time.
Another close second is basketball. Almost an entire new team. It worries me a bit because no matter what anyone says for freshmen coming in it usually takes a year for them to adapt to and learn the college game unless you have a player like Anthony and McNamara coming in at the same time - we'll see how this works.
Gary Gait I do not believe walked into a team that had a lot of talent. Just seems like they have a game in hand or takeover the lead and then lose it at the last minute as they did against NC. We have some very good players coming in so it's another waiting game for Gait to coach a new team and see what he can do.
We're watching FLJ put together a new Womens BB program from soup to nuts and she's doing a great job going from her basic philosophy CAB, Character Athletics Basketball. Her asistants are very bright and experienced - I see nothing but positives coming from this hire and this program.
Again thank you for your comments - they give me the tug to go forth, observe and think about more and write about it and it feels good for me and for me to feel good about SU!
edit: Almost most of all, I'd like to thank the Admins & Moderators: CuseLegacy, OrangeXtreme, Jake, sutomcat, bees and all the rest. No one knows how much time is involved to put each piece of member information in the various threads on boards at this site, get incoming information from the media posted everyday and then post all the information about recruited players for Football, Basketball, Lax and now Womens BB and everything else I missed.
As far as I am concerned, this is the best university board there is and it is a pleasure to be associated with so many well educated people and those who post on this board again and again because they have opinions they feel should be shared, responded to, agreements and disagreements. It's all right here at syracusefan.com I respect the fact that almost everyone's post is meaningful and gets to be shared and responded to or not. IT'S ALL GOOD!