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Message: [QUOTE="CU44SE, post: 5071527, member: 2196"] You literally said it, “the problem will not be Red”. The entire point of my post was that NIL money is not the end all to being successful. So if we are not successful, then yes it’s on Red!!!! why shouldn’t we compare someone to Fran? My point is that NIL is not the only way to get good players. Relationships are huge. Are you saying Red is not able to make the connections or support to drum up additional NIL money or sell recruits on a top 10 program, in the ACC, with top notch facilities and the 1-2 largest attendance every year? Scott drew had to deal with sanctions that were the worst handed out since the death penalty to SMU. It’s a miracle he made it in even 5 years. Nate Oates went from UB to a football school with no real history. And they are not paying nearly as much as everyone else. So how is he able to be so successful and get top transfers? He took over a 18-15 team from Avery Johnson, who won exactly 20 games in 1 of his 4 years. Oates took over and went 16-15 and then his second year finished 5th and won SEC at 26-7. Soooo how did that previous success at alabama get players to commit? I believe UConn lost 8 players from their national championship team. They only got 1 player out of the portal and then proceeded to win a second national championship. So how is this a bad example? They literally used the portal for 1 player and built the rest from recruiting the right people. Their have been articles about they only bright certain people on campus and not the ones only looking for money. Becaue often times those players don’t fit into the team mentality. Bottom line. What’s the major difference? All these coaches had success at other stops. Instead, Syracuse decided to hire Red. The longest tenured assistant coach during the worst tenure in Syracuse basketball history. He was not a stud recruiter. So I continue to go back to, what asset did Red posses that made him the immediate candidate to replace Jim without an actual national search? He played at Syracuse? I will give the man a chance. And I didn’t hate everything from last year. But it was pretty clear that his play calling was not spectacular. I personally do not believe Syracuse basketball is a program you hire someone that has no experience. We will see what happens, but last year I thought he left a major hole at the 5 and relied on too many question marks (Benny and bell). Benny situation exploded and Bell started to do some better things towards the end of the year. It’s great to have a shooter. But he needs to at least try in other facets of the game. So far this year, he has lost his best returning player (brown) and not been able to get his biggest need, a PG. [/QUOTE]

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