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[QUOTE="Caboose, post: 2118198, member: 3281"]
No way, I disagree with this.  True, we are not Duke, UK, or UNC, but this is not football either.  We have top notch facilities in the Carmelo Center and one of the best venues to play in along with top two crowd size every year.  There are several problems contributing to our recent decline, and pretty much all of them have been awesomely layed out by some great posts in here.  The problems are not because we're Syracuse and we're not attractive enough to blue chippers.

We are below Duke and UNC in terms of appeal, but we are not at the same level as Maryland, or Villanova, no way.  Villanova has Jay Wright, and they don't have a gimmick defense and an incoming coach with no head coaching experience.  We need to fix what we can tangibly fix and [B]regularly[/B] bring in the top recruits we started sprinkling in after Melo left, i.e. Waiters, McCullough, Fab Melo, Battle, Richardson, Ennis etc.  While also filling out the roster with four year guys like the Amile Jeffersons (Duke stole away), Rick Jacksons, Kris Josephs, James Southerlands, Arinze Onuakus, etc of the world.  If nothing else, I've had expectations that we would improve on our recruiting since joining the ACC.  I expect more than this.
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