One bad year and this fan base is ready to throw it away. (And don’t give me the steady decline crap. We’ve had several of those and weathered them back to revelence.)
JB has earned his long leash. He’s brought more value to the university and program that it can possibly give back to him. He built it, he can survive a bad season.
Simmer down.
I don't understand this perspective, because it doesn't seem rooted in the reality of the program's decline. It would be one thing if this were a one-off bad season, or if JB were still orchestrating 20-8 seasons, and fans were just lamenting that he'd lost a little off of his fastball.
But this ISN'T just "one bad year," and it isn't the "fan base... ready to throw it away" over a blip on the radar.
People can bury their heads in the sand all they'd like, but they can't hide from the FACT that we've had 12+ losses for 8 consecutive years. During that span, we dodged two NIT outcomes that would have tainted the record even further by opting out of the postseason in 2014, and due to COVID cancelling the 2020 season. We're perennially on the bubble. We aren't competing for ACC titles. When we play top 10 programs nowadays, we've gotten curb stomped. And now we're staring a losing record in the face, with one game to go in the regular season.
So it isn't just "one bad year." And we can't pretend that the steady decline isn't relevant, nor that the finish line isn't rapidly approaching for JB, one way or the other.
Until recently, I would have agreed wholeheartedly that JB would be able to call his own shot, and had earned that right. But we've already seen cracks in the foundation. Wildhack reportedly told him to knock it off with throwing players under the bus earlier this year. JB reportedly isn't listening much to his AC's these days. And the net result is dysfunction.
The same attributes that made Boeheim a HOF coach -- dogged stubborness, competitiveness to the point of being combative, etc. -- are now undermining him, and hurting the program. He might believe that he can pull us out of this tail spin, but the results -- garnered over an extended period of time -- suggest otherwise.
And there's more. The dynamics of the college basketball landscape are changing. NIL. Transfer portal. You can't berate players incessantly and expect them to stick around anymore.
Again, we're not talking about one bad year that happened in year 27, that fans are overreacting to. This is the CULMINATION of a lot of smaller problems that together are much bigger than a bread box.
