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[QUOTE="OrlandoCuse, post: 4139754, member: 115"]
While JB has successfully avoided a losing season in his 46 year career, he has had double digit losses in 21 of his 46 seasons. Sometimes we have very successful double digit loss seasons like 2012-13 when we went 30-10 and made the Final Four. But more often than not, double digit loss seasons reflect a relatively poor season by Syracuse standards.

I went back and broke out the seasons by 9 year groups, with the exception of ‘76-77 to ‘85-86 which covers JB’s first ten years (only because it’s not easy to divide 46 seasons into equal groups).

‘76-77 to ‘85-86: 3 out of 10 seasons with double digit losses
‘86-87 to ‘94-95: 2 out of 9
‘95-96 to ‘03-04: 3 out of 9
‘04-05 to ‘12-13: 5 out of 9
‘13-14 to ‘21-22: 8 out of 9

It’s a pretty alarming trend. What’s even worse is the total number of losses. Before the NC season of 2003, JB’s max loss total in a season was 13, which happened on 3 out of 27 seasons.

Since 2003, we’ve had 13 or more losses in 7 out of 18 seasons, with the max being 15 in 2017.

So it’s a fairly significant downward trend. This season we’re probably looking at another 13+ loss year and could set the record for losses.

JB deserves a lot of rope because of what he’s done to build Syracuse basketball. But he’s clearly been given a lot of rope over the past decade. There’s enough evidence to realize JB is never rebuilding Syracuse basketball to what it once was. Never building it back to its full potential. The real question is how long is he allowed to keep the program in a state of mediocrity?
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