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[QUOTE="CUSEMODE, post: 2963693, member: 6940"]
Here is my perspective after sleeping off all the scotch I drank reading about this depressing Frank news all night. I think Frank had a decent career at Cuse (1 FF and 1 S16). He poured out his heart on the court last year and you could see that. He looked like he worked his butt off during the off-season to have a career year and set him up nicely next year for pro ball overseas. So I definitely feel for the kid. He is a college student that maybe smoked a little weed. He is supposedly an 'amateur athlete' and a 'college student first'. If that in fact is the case, college kids do dumb things, I know I made plenty during my 4 years on the Hill. Go randomly test 10 college kids on campus and I bet 8 of them fail for weed. Weed and college are like peanut butter and jelly.

That being said, I do think our team is better offensively without him. I do feel like our top of the zone D will be less effective without our senior PG that has gelled well with Battle. JB would have only played a 7 man rotation anyways if we make a deep run in the post season. So if Frank was playing, we wouldn't see Jalen and we wouldn't have seen Buddy as much. Taking all these factors into consideration, I feel like its a wash.

I do still believe we can make a deep run. And if we do not, the silver lining is that Jalen will be better prepared with tourney experience for next year. We weren't winning it all with or without Frank lets be honest.

I do still feel for the kid, wish him the best, and I hope he learns from this and has a successful career overseas. I cannot wait to watch him play on Boeheim's Army in a couple of years.

Go Orange! Let's get this party started!
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