I remember all the justifications on retaining Red towards the end of last year - we’d lose recruits, we’d lose Melo’s support and his money, Red just needed time, yadda yadda yadda… It’s been very easy to not really care this year, because once it was clear Red was coming back getting to this point was inevitable. It’s a shame we had to crap away a year on an obviously lost cause for delusional reasons - but for all kinds of entirely political reasons apparently we had to.
The sad thing is leadership at Syracuse has spent 25+ years burning any credibility they have - so there’s a part of me that wouldn’t be shocked if Red was back next year. Him here this year was a stupid decision after numerous asinine decisions over the years, so I have limited confidence people in charge won’t just keep making stupid decisions.