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Jim Boeheim Fails the Crumbling City of Syracuse (marketwatch.com; Notte)
In Syracuse, N.Y., the building that the Syracuse University men’s basketball team plays in is named the Carrier Dome after the Carrier Corp. that once called Syracuse home. The court the team plays on in that building is named after former Syracuse basketball player and 37-year coach Jim Boeheim.
In recent decades, one of the two has fared far better than the other and emerged as the face of the central New York city that the building overlooks from University Hill.
Carrier is now a subsidiary of Connecticut-based United Technologies UTX, +0.79%It closed its manufacturing facilities in Syracuse in 1994. Carrier still has more than 1,300 employees there after shutting down a warehouse earlier this year, but those workers are primarily dedicated to research and development. At its peak, Carrier’s manufacturing plants alone employed more than 7,000 people in the area. Now, Carrier Circle, just off of Interstate 90, is marked by the vacant remnants of Carrier’s once-sprawling operations and an abandoned hotel and gas stations cross the circle: Ominous harbingers of what awaits down Thompson Road.
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A Quick Look at the 2015-16 SU Basketball Team (sujuiceonline.com; Cheng)
Here’s a quick look at the 2015-16 Syracuse basketball team:
WHO’S OUT: Syracuse is only sure to lose one player from the 2014-15 team, but it’s a big one. All-ACC First Team selection Rakeem Christmas is taking his team-high 17.5 points, 9.1 rebounds and 2.5 blocks per game to the NBA (hopefully). Christmas was the focal point on both sides of the ball for the Orange, and it will be interesting to see how the offense changes without a proven inside scorer. It’s been a long time since anyone improved as much as Christmas did in his four years at Syracuse, but it’s certainly validation for the job that Mike Hopkins has done since taking over big-man coaching duties from Bernie Fine.
WHO MAY BE OUT: Jim Boeheim hinted that there would be ‘tremendous changes’ this offseason, which could mean SU may lose some players by transfer or graduation. Both Michael Gbinije and Trevor Cooney will be fifth year players, having lost a year to a redshirt. It’s hard to picture either player leaving, but Gbinije at least left the door open that he may leave.
As for transfers, Ron Patterson, BJ Johnson and Chinonso Obokoh are potential candidates to leave. All three were in and out of the rotation and various points, and Patterson was essentially told to stop shooting by the coaching staff. Johnson didn’t appear in six games this season and averaged just 14.6 minutes per game. Obokoh was used even more sparingly, playing just 13 games at 6.8 minutes per game.
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Today's Whack Job Article of the Day on SU Basketball...
Jim Boeheim Fails the Crumbling City of Syracuse (marketwatch.com; Notte)
In Syracuse, N.Y., the building that the Syracuse University men’s basketball team plays in is named the Carrier Dome after the Carrier Corp. that once called Syracuse home. The court the team plays on in that building is named after former Syracuse basketball player and 37-year coach Jim Boeheim.
In recent decades, one of the two has fared far better than the other and emerged as the face of the central New York city that the building overlooks from University Hill.
Carrier is now a subsidiary of Connecticut-based United Technologies UTX, +0.79%It closed its manufacturing facilities in Syracuse in 1994. Carrier still has more than 1,300 employees there after shutting down a warehouse earlier this year, but those workers are primarily dedicated to research and development. At its peak, Carrier’s manufacturing plants alone employed more than 7,000 people in the area. Now, Carrier Circle, just off of Interstate 90, is marked by the vacant remnants of Carrier’s once-sprawling operations and an abandoned hotel and gas stations cross the circle: Ominous harbingers of what awaits down Thompson Road.
...
A Quick Look at the 2015-16 SU Basketball Team (sujuiceonline.com; Cheng)
Here’s a quick look at the 2015-16 Syracuse basketball team:
WHO’S OUT: Syracuse is only sure to lose one player from the 2014-15 team, but it’s a big one. All-ACC First Team selection Rakeem Christmas is taking his team-high 17.5 points, 9.1 rebounds and 2.5 blocks per game to the NBA (hopefully). Christmas was the focal point on both sides of the ball for the Orange, and it will be interesting to see how the offense changes without a proven inside scorer. It’s been a long time since anyone improved as much as Christmas did in his four years at Syracuse, but it’s certainly validation for the job that Mike Hopkins has done since taking over big-man coaching duties from Bernie Fine.
WHO MAY BE OUT: Jim Boeheim hinted that there would be ‘tremendous changes’ this offseason, which could mean SU may lose some players by transfer or graduation. Both Michael Gbinije and Trevor Cooney will be fifth year players, having lost a year to a redshirt. It’s hard to picture either player leaving, but Gbinije at least left the door open that he may leave.
As for transfers, Ron Patterson, BJ Johnson and Chinonso Obokoh are potential candidates to leave. All three were in and out of the rotation and various points, and Patterson was essentially told to stop shooting by the coaching staff. Johnson didn’t appear in six games this season and averaged just 14.6 minutes per game. Obokoh was used even more sparingly, playing just 13 games at 6.8 minutes per game.
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