Does Brent Axe Have a point?

[GHLF]

Never met the guy but his puzzlement at what went on with Carney is shared by literally dozens of posters here. I actually deleted my initial post and won't be replying further since I won't be arguing with someone who's immature at best.

Please by all means whatever you would like, and this certainly has nothing to do with Carney, I so wish he stayed as he is a tremendous athlete and seemingly very importantly a tremendous kid with a good family, that is what I look at first. You would or should not even be here If you cannot play football nevertheless sometimes at this level and position especially early on developmental flaws come out which is actually completely normal. Very sad that he was put in this position, Certainly a lot went down in relation to why he was put in this position, none of it malicious, Not a lot of options if you know what I mean. Concerning your defense once again this has nothing to do with Carney and his article is actually as stated filled with some actual truth and certainly indefinitively fiction from a sensationalist drama click baiting approach. And that is what he is while always laying blame without knowing all of the facts. I honestly would call myself to a degree a vested resource most importantly as it relates to college athletics, the integrity that we attempt to instill and certainly the goodness of the coaches attempting to do that while playing a sport. This gentleman is the antithesis of goodness and you can take that in any way you like. He is a vulture, He was actually quite easy on Jim Arthur Boeheim in a lot of ways a little ramped up certainly at the end and a lot of it massive amounts of truth. He however knew where the butter was coming from and he to a degree be real light for him concerning this situation nevertheless with others he has not in a very foul way. I think he should be removed as he is not objective nor consistent with journalistic principles of previous times. He fits right in. That's it for me

 

[GHLF]

This is so ridiculous is beyond the pale. Take the time to meet the guy and you’ll know why I wrote that.

I have, And you will be known by your fruits especially what comes out of your mouth and your pen

 

[Offthedome]

This is journalism in a nutshell - sensationalism sells.

Correct. There is almost zero true local reporting after the death of the physical newspaper. Syracuse.com is nothing but a money grab that focuses on getting parents of high school athletes to subscribe to see their child in some ridiculous preseason posed photo. "See who is the best point guard in games played on a Tuesday in Section 3."

Go to the archives page of the Post-Standard or Herald-American to see what we have become.

 

[MadNY3]

This is the thing that got you to say “That’s it…I have to go do my first post on that Internet fan forum”?

Perhaps the most sedate burner account ever.

 

[OrangeTarheel]

Axe has said some of the most homer things I’ve heard about Syracuse sports. He typically seems to really love the team and covering it. He’s not for everyone but if you’re taking away that he’s just overly negative about our programs then I don’t think that’s remotely accurate.

May I suggest maybe start your own talk show rather than bemoaning this man? These days it’s literally free to start your own YouTube channel. If you know the secret sauce to great sports talk then go out and make it happen. Go get rich off your ideas.

A word of advice, don’t try your hand at getting paid for the written word until you figure out what a paragraph is.

 

[Blanko97]

After forcing myself to read Axe’s column on Luke Carney’s impending transfer, I struggle to understand Mr. Axe value in the local scheme of sports reporting.
Axe continues to report in a negative way, looking for the sensational and negative aspects of SU football and hoops over a realistic analysis. This reporting also Carrie’s negativity in almost every story.
Case in point - Luke Carney entering the transfer portal. Axe implies this is a major loss for the Orange. He states Carney is a 4 time Texas high school champion, and he was behind a walk on in the depth chart.
Well Brent, maybe there is a reason he played minimally. Also his redshirt question is a non factor. If the SU coaches thought for one minute he could help the team in the emergency that was the latter part of the season, they would have used him. And if Brent researched the Texas championship resume of Carney, he would have stated Carney was in a league of schools the size of Tully on Onondaga. Although he did well, he was in a tiny school, and probably would have not played in a larger league.
The point is we never see positivity from Axe. Also, stories are skewed to his hate agenda.
Maybe this stems from his radio show firing or his humbling rebukes that Jim Boeheim used to pound him with.
Brent, try another type of reporting, like food or something. Nobody likes your current role.

Axe writes what people click on. When the teams struggle, negative stories get reactions. And in all honesty, Fran handled the QB situation about as poorly as he could. If he truly believed Collins was the best player, he should’ve left him out there. When he started thinking twice about it, he inserted Luke and never let him throw, claiming he “didn’t know the play book” which seemed like a weak but believable excuse until he trotted out a walk on lacrosse player at QB who looked clueless each and every play. It is almost impossible for an outside observer to take Fran at his word when he claimed that not only did Filardi magically learn the playbook over night, but that he was also better than anyone else in the room. It’s just not realistic. So what happened there? It’s worth exploring.

As for Luke’s high school career, if his stats and performance were padded by playing at a small school the: 1) why did we give him a scholarship, and 2) how was Filardi any different?

Without seeing him actually get to compete in a game we are stuck between Luke was either just that bad, or Fran is just that clueless. Considering the embarrassing level to which Rickie was a miss, most fans likely side with fran being that clueless.

So why did he wrote the story? Because that’s the story the staffs decisions set up.

 

[Blanko97]

I said nothing about losses so not sure what you are driving at. I’m just merely saying the following a.) that article highlights nothing more than what is discussed here or even Facebook groups b.) with access to Fran why hasn’t he asked direct questions to get to the bottom of the situation? This is especially relevant since people pay him for the same level of access I get for free here, on twitter or Facebook. I don’t have an issue with negative reporting … it’s the reporting with no substance other than what everyone already knows. He has access so why not ask the questions? His reporting is mediocre at best that is my only point.

He did an ask a question after the Duke game (i believe) and then again after UNC, the answers are available in the press conference archives and they were terrible. He can only ask the questions. Frankly, axe is the only left who asks anything other than softball b.s.

 

[SuFTW]

I stand by everything I said from a pretty clear perspective I might say just because he’s your buddy makes no difference to me, but I certainly have nothing against you. You Willey by all means you can believe what you want and I will know what I know. And speaking the truth, our goodness integrity is certainly not cheap your connotation points directly to your character, and certainly what I stated before.

For being a holy roller, you are awfully judgemental of others for having a differing opinion.

 

[GHLF]

For being a holy roller, you are awfully judgemental of others for having a differing opinion.

I will definitely defend good, It's certainly much easier when you care about the people you are defending from people such as this, Especially when you know what is right. And I certainly am not the judge for sure, nothing but the best and thank you

 

[Roger N]

After forcing myself to read Axe’s column on Luke Carney’s impending transfer, I struggle to understand Mr. Axe value in the local scheme of sports reporting.
Axe continues to report in a negative way, looking for the sensational and negative aspects of SU football and hoops over a realistic analysis. This reporting also Carrie’s negativity in almost every story.
Case in point - Luke Carney entering the transfer portal. Axe implies this is a major loss for the Orange. He states Carney is a 4 time Texas high school champion, and he was behind a walk on in the depth chart.
Well Brent, maybe there is a reason he played minimally. Also his redshirt question is a non factor. If the SU coaches thought for one minute he could help the team in the emergency that was the latter part of the season, they would have used him. And if Brent researched the Texas championship resume of Carney, he would have stated Carney was in a league of schools the size of Tully on Onondaga. Although he did well, he was in a tiny school, and probably would have not played in a larger league.
The point is we never see positivity from Axe. Also, stories are skewed to his hate agenda.
Maybe this stems from his radio show firing or his humbling rebukes that Jim Boeheim used to pound him with.
Brent, try another type of reporting, like food or something. Nobody likes your current role.

I know I could not read his column

 

[MiB]

Here we go again. Brent the obvious, Brent the Bitter chimes in after the Duke debacle last night. Really? Cmon man, his reporting is insulting to our intelligence.
So he names off the people who are probably going to be on this search committee for the new AD, and says they are in the crosshairs to find the AD that will address the issue of hiring the “best coach possible “.
Really? Maybe they’ll get together and push for an AD to hire a bad coach. What is he talking about? Really?
Can anyone see the pattern here? Our boy Brent hates SU at multiple levels. Basketball is the most hated, then football, followed lastly by lacrosse. I believe his hatred stems from both the deserved thrashing he took from Jim Boeheim for asking dumb questions, and his firing from his narcissistic radio show. Brent is bitter and is adding gas to a grease fire to promote that bitterness. He is reporting like this to satisfy his need to revel in the failure of the basketball team.
We know the hoop program is in a tough state. We know Adrian Autry is gone in a month or so. We know SU has to pull off some key successes in the hiring of both the AD and Autry’s replacement. But to negatively point out what we know is nauseating. Axe never has any pertinent new information, because no one talks to him at SU. Sad.
Hopefully good writers like Mike Waters will offer tangible insight into real candidates for the positions, and not just keep laying it on people that they better do something, like Mr Brent does.
My hope is the Post Standard smartens up and removes him, but that probably won’t happen. Too bad for sports fans in the Syracuse area.

 

[orange79]

After forcing myself to read Axe’s column on Luke Carney’s impending transfer, I struggle to understand Mr. Axe value in the local scheme of sports reporting.
Axe continues to report in a negative way, looking for the sensational and negative aspects of SU football and hoops over a realistic analysis. This reporting also Carrie’s negativity in almost every story.
Case in point - Luke Carney entering the transfer portal. Axe implies this is a major loss for the Orange. He states Carney is a 4 time Texas high school champion, and he was behind a walk on in the depth chart.
Well Brent, maybe there is a reason he played minimally. Also his redshirt question is a non factor. If the SU coaches thought for one minute he could help the team in the emergency that was the latter part of the season, they would have used him. And if Brent researched the Texas championship resume of Carney, he would have stated Carney was in a league of schools the size of Tully on Onondaga. Although he did well, he was in a tiny school, and probably would have not played in a larger league.
The point is we never see positivity from Axe. Also, stories are skewed to his hate agenda.
Maybe this stems from his radio show firing or his humbling rebukes that Jim Boeheim used to pound him with.
Brent, try another type of reporting, like food or something. Nobody likes your current role.

Here we go again. Brent the obvious, Brent the Bitter chimes in after the Duke debacle last night. Really? Cmon man, his reporting is insulting to our intelligence.
So he names off the people who are probably going to be on this search committee for the new AD, and says they are in the crosshairs to find the AD that will address the issue of hiring the “best coach possible “.
Really? Maybe they’ll get together and push for an AD to hire a bad coach. What is he talking about? Really?
Can anyone see the pattern here? Our boy Brent hates SU at multiple levels. Basketball is the most hated, then football, followed lastly by lacrosse. I believe his hatred stems from both the deserved thrashing he took from Jim Boeheim for asking dumb questions, and his firing from his narcissistic radio show. Brent is bitter and is adding gas to a grease fire to promote that bitterness. He is reporting like this to satisfy his need to revel in the failure of the basketball team.
We know the hoop program is in a tough state. We know Adrian Autry is gone in a month or so. We know SU has to pull off some key successes in the hiring of both the AD and Autry’s replacement. But to negatively point out what we know is nauseating. Axe never has any pertinent new information, because no one talks to him at SU. Sad.
Hopefully good writers like Mike Waters will offer tangible insight into real candidates for the positions, and not just keep laying it on people that they better do something, like Mr Brent does.
My hope is the Post Standard smartens up and removes him, but that probably won’t happen. Too bad for sports fans in the Syracuse area.

Or, you could just stop reading his work.

 

[Bill Orange]

Here we go again. Brent the obvious, Brent the Bitter chimes in after the Duke debacle last night. Really? Cmon man, his reporting is insulting to our intelligence.
So he names off the people who are probably going to be on this search committee for the new AD, and says they are in the crosshairs to find the AD that will address the issue of hiring the “best coach possible “.
Really? Maybe they’ll get together and push for an AD to hire a bad coach. What is he talking about? Really?
Can anyone see the pattern here? Our boy Brent hates SU at multiple levels. Basketball is the most hated, then football, followed lastly by lacrosse. I believe his hatred stems from both the deserved thrashing he took from Jim Boeheim for asking dumb questions, and his firing from his narcissistic radio show. Brent is bitter and is adding gas to a grease fire to promote that bitterness. He is reporting like this to satisfy his need to revel in the failure of the basketball team.
We know the hoop program is in a tough state. We know Adrian Autry is gone in a month or so. We know SU has to pull off some key successes in the hiring of both the AD and Autry’s replacement. But to negatively point out what we know is nauseating. Axe never has any pertinent new information, because no one talks to him at SU. Sad.
Hopefully good writers like Mike Waters will offer tangible insight into real candidates for the positions, and not just keep laying it on people that they better do something, like Mr Brent does.
My hope is the Post Standard smartens up and removes him, but that probably won’t happen. Too bad for sports fans in the Syracuse area.

He gets clicks.

He's the Bud Poliquin of this generation.

 

[oldpinepoint]

Axe sucks, I don’t click on any of his stuff.

 

[JustPherU]

Or, you could just stop reading his work. View attachment 260233

Or Brent could pick up his game a little bit. No different than watching this sorry excuse of a basketball team, I’m going to watch even when they are terrible but I’m hoping for some improvement.

 

[Ttk.gman2]

Axe sucks, I don’t click on any of his stuff.

He’s so in over his head

 

[orange79]

Or Brent could pick up his game a little bit. No different than watching this sorry excuse of a basketball team, I’m going to watch even when they are terrible but I’m hoping for some improvement.

Why would you think that's possible? He's been around for 20+ years, and here we are.

Red is three and done, so there's hope for the future there.

 

[Moontan]

He clearly has a bent axe.

 

[HyattsCuse]

Here we go again. Brent the obvious, Brent the Bitter chimes in after the Duke debacle last night. Really? Cmon man, his reporting is insulting to our intelligence.
So he names off the people who are probably going to be on this search committee for the new AD, and says they are in the crosshairs to find the AD that will address the issue of hiring the “best coach possible “.
Really? Maybe they’ll get together and push for an AD to hire a bad coach. What is he talking about? Really?
Can anyone see the pattern here? Our boy Brent hates SU at multiple levels. Basketball is the most hated, then football, followed lastly by lacrosse. I believe his hatred stems from both the deserved thrashing he took from Jim Boeheim for asking dumb questions, and his firing from his narcissistic radio show. Brent is bitter and is adding gas to a grease fire to promote that bitterness. He is reporting like this to satisfy his need to revel in the failure of the basketball team.
We know the hoop program is in a tough state. We know Adrian Autry is gone in a month or so. We know SU has to pull off some key successes in the hiring of both the AD and Autry’s replacement. But to negatively point out what we know is nauseating. Axe never has any pertinent new information, because no one talks to him at SU. Sad.
Hopefully good writers like Mike Waters will offer tangible insight into real candidates for the positions, and not just keep laying it on people that they better do something, like Mr Brent does.
My hope is the Post Standard smartens up and removes him, but that probably won’t happen. Too bad for sports fans in the Syracuse area.

The only pattern I see is you have 2 posts on this board and both are to bash Axe. How did the man hurt you?! LOL

Some of the points Axe makes:
- Syracuse is miles apart from Duke on the basketball court.
- SU can't be cheap with their next hire.
- The timing of JW's retirement as it relates to when Red's successor needs to realistically be hired is a valid concern.

If you read this message board with any sort of regularity, yes, the comments/questions he makes in this article have been mentioned many times here. Axe probably gets information from this board. But he's not writing articles for this message board, he's writing his opinion pieces for the greater masses. Personally, I'm all for it. I want the university to feel as much heat as possible. I'd like to see Syracuse be Syracuse again.

Getting "insulted" by this is odd IMO. Clearly, you have some type of agenda or personal vendetta towards the guy.

 

[Cuseregular]

The only pattern I see is you have 2 posts on this board and both are to bash Axe. How did the man hurt you?! LOL

Some of the points Axe makes:
- Syracuse is miles apart from Duke on the basketball court.
- SU can't be cheap with their next hire.
- The timing of JW's retirement as it relates to when Red's successor needs to realistically be hired is a valid concern.

If you read this message board with any sort of regularity, yes, the comments/questions he makes in this article have been mentioned many times here. Axe probably gets information from this board. But he's not writing articles for this message board, he's writing his opinion pieces for the greater masses. Personally, I'm all for it. I want the university to feel as much heat as possible. I'd like to see Syracuse be Syracuse again.

Getting "insulted" by this is odd IMO. Clearly, you have some type of agenda or personal vendetta towards the guy.

exactly, well said

 

[phsyra]

Carney looked every bit as capable as Filardi and Collins in the few plays he got at SU. I'm wondering if he told Fran early on that SU wasn't for him and asked him to preserve his redshirt for a transfer to somewhere else. Fran may have been doing him a favor that mystified all of us.

Carney can't throw no matter what people say. He has a very weak arm. I watched him in warmups every game and he could never complete an out route to the sidline. IF we let him loose he would throw ten picks per game. The qbs we had after Angeli were all awful. Belin can't throw either. Hard to imagine hm taking a snap at QB at the college level. Filardi was an embarrassment and should not be allowed anywhere near our team next year.

 

[GHLF]

The only pattern I see is you have 2 posts on this board and both are to bash Axe. How did the man hurt you?! LOL

Some of the points Axe makes:
- Syracuse is miles apart from Duke on the basketball court.
- SU can't be cheap with their next hire.
- The timing of JW's retirement as it relates to when Red's successor needs to realistically be hired is a valid concern.

If you read this message board with any sort of regularity, yes, the comments/questions he makes in this article have been mentioned many times here. Axe probably gets information from this board. But he's not writing articles for this message board, he's writing his opinion pieces for the greater masses. Personally, I'm all for it. I want the university to feel as much heat as possible. I'd like to see Syracuse be Syracuse again.

Getting "insulted" by this is odd IMO. Clearly, you have some type of agenda or personal vendetta towards the guy.

Essentially, longtime lurker, proud supporter as well as alum of this university. The only vendetta that is apparent is BA, And he has a vendetta against truth and goodness. There is a way to operate, you can always do this with goodness, class and integrity, right? I feel very sorry for him honestly because he has nothing else to fall back on, He is not a good human and it is reflective on his job. God help us all, what is in your heart will come out of your mouth, good, bad and everywhere in between for all of us. I pray that bend is upwards for myself and others. Personal choice though. I honestly get in trouble for speaking after all it is a message board for Syracuse supporters right? I am definitely not his buddy, nor interested and essentially anything he states because of his personal character but that's just my opinion. So the other gentleman I thought he was pretty objective. Goodness and integrity have to stand for something in today's society right? And for the most part the coaches up on that hill truly attempt to do that. I was very proud of Reds press conference yesterday. He seems to be at peace.. The team wilted with pressure, whether that had anything to do with the coach, certainly potentially, lots of carry over certainly from the past five years in my opinion. Potential need for a change, sad but potentially evident. I know this, What a good kind man and that is what will bear fruit in real life. I very much believe Red knows that. Basketball coaching acumen big little or small and everywhere in between with lots of growing needed in every area of life, all of us right? BA Sadly and opportunistically preys upon the misfortune and perceived weaknesses of others instead of looking at the big picture. And for that, it is hard for me to ignore.

 

[Capt. Tuttle]

I’m going to watch even when they are terrible but I’m hoping for some improvement.

Definition of insanity

 

[Trueblue25]

Lol Brent loves SU. There’s just every reason to be upset with the AD and School right now and no reason, aside from WBB and Lax, to love.

 

[Dinkyspond]

Here we go again. Brent the obvious, Brent the Bitter chimes in after the Duke debacle last night. Really? Cmon man, his reporting is insulting to our intelligence.
So he names off the people who are probably going to be on this search committee for the new AD, and says they are in the crosshairs to find the AD that will address the issue of hiring the “best coach possible “.
Really? Maybe they’ll get together and push for an AD to hire a bad coach. What is he talking about? Really?
Can anyone see the pattern here? Our boy Brent hates SU at multiple levels. Basketball is the most hated, then football, followed lastly by lacrosse. I believe his hatred stems from both the deserved thrashing he took from Jim Boeheim for asking dumb questions, and his firing from his narcissistic radio show. Brent is bitter and is adding gas to a grease fire to promote that bitterness. He is reporting like this to satisfy his need to revel in the failure of the basketball team.
We know the hoop program is in a tough state. We know Adrian Autry is gone in a month or so. We know SU has to pull off some key successes in the hiring of both the AD and Autry’s replacement. But to negatively point out what we know is nauseating. Axe never has any pertinent new information, because no one talks to him at SU. Sad.
Hopefully good writers like Mike Waters will offer tangible insight into real candidates for the positions, and not just keep laying it on people that they better do something, like Mr Brent does.
My hope is the Post Standard smartens up and removes him, but that probably won’t happen. Too bad for sports fans in the Syracuse area.

Axe was fired because he was saying things fans were saying and thinking about the sacred cow JB at the end and how he had to go. He was doing his job, representing the voice of the fan. Galaxy is Kremlin, state-run media and Ed Levine, head of Galaxy, was afraid of the repercussions from the Hill and the murky relationship between Galaxy and JB, JB is a Galaxy investor. I am so glad that we have options outside Galaxy like Axe and Brian Higgins. Steve Infante is on Galaxy saying Brown was a good hire which is ridiculous. He had a great year in 2024 and a pitiful 2025, we were the worst team in major college football after September 21 with 8 straight blowout, worse than Grob-like losses. The jury is still out on Brown, to say he is a good hire after the 2025 debacle is heresy.