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Message: [QUOTE="OttoMets, post: 2905360, member: 716"] The Big East looms large in that list of contributing factors. Even with some crappy teams, SU was getting every opportunity to earn exposure from '06 through '09, and they came through - two or three upsets of top-10 Georgetown teams, a few good games against Louisville and Villanova, and of course the six overtime win. New York mattered from the broader national college basketball and recruiting perspective, and Boeheim and the kids more or less stepped up their game at the right time. This gave the program (wincing here, hate these dopey attempts to qualify intangibles) a level of swag that was attractive to recruits. Transition and freestyle-friendly basketball, tons of ESPN exposure, Jadakiss at the games, and a bunch of McD's kids and other high-level recruits wanting to play with their friends - there was a great positive feedback loop there for a few years. After the move down South...not. [/QUOTE]