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[QUOTE="MikeSU02, post: 5359118, member: 60"]
This is all so tiresome.

Absolving Red of massive ownership and culpability in any capacity is a farce. As others have pointed out, we're talking about being better than Random State University and just making an NCAAT.

It's been almost a decade, basically, where this program hasn't been operating like a modern program.

We have people on this board dismissing or questioning using analytics when they've been around going on years and years. That is all part and parcel with this conversation.

This article, these actions or lack there of, this blaming the players/NIL/the boogeyman is just air coverage for the Syracuse community. As though it will do anything when we keep losing. It's an article to assuage magical thinking and the latest iteration of that thinking that's been going on for almost a decade at this point.

Think about it this way, what do people think competitors in our peer group (god help us whatever that is now) would want? Syracuse to keep Red or Syracuse to go get a Hodgson or someone else? Honestly, think about if the roles were reversed? We'd absolutely love them to keep the status quo.

Who cares. This program is broken. We've let this thing slide to such depths that the only question that is asked in the CBB community outside of Syracuse is "what happened?" and "why are you so awful?".

And they're right. None of these small items mean anything. It's stomping out a cigarette in the middle of a forest fire until there is real systemic change.

Also, just remember, that every other program in the country is trying to get better as well. Not just us. And a lot of them have been doing it better than we have for a while now.
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