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Message: [QUOTE="SU94, post: 5321555, member: 202"] Yep. I am going to call bullc8@p on this ^^^^. And you know it if your name here means anything. To actually believe this is somehow true is at best naive, and at worst blatant slander. Mike deserves a lot better for his service these last 30+ years. As for the program's trajectory, none of this "let's get back to being Syracuse" is as simple as you all make it sound. Stop being simpletons. Don't let emotion get in the way. It is unbecoming a really smart fanbase. This all goes well beyond Red, whose greatest sin is that he did not dominate the portal with the equivalent of $5 in his back pocket. Lampkin was a bad decision. Those happen. They happen at Louisville, at UNC, at Pitt and it happened when JAB was here too (and not just in the last 8-9 years). We have a talent deficiency right now. And the enviable talent is young! And so ... so many here propose getting rid of the guy who brings in talent? That makes zero sense when there is young talent on the roster and more coming in the pipeline. As for Red's coaching acumen, ... we are not losing because he's getting out flanked. He's a prisoner to the problem that the portal so often renders, namely that the players are independent contractors without an actual connection to each other, the program and its intrinsic expectations. About 50% of this roster are not true Syracuse players. That'll be rectified in the next 1-2 years. Red has to do way less in the portal. He and Kline get that. It cannot be 4-5 players annually. They'll manage the roster together and improve. They have the best shot at getting this right. Maybe next season. More likely the next. But the script will flip if silly simpletons would stop thrashing about and understand the math involved in properly turning a roster over. It takes time. The portal is a false prophet in college hoops, especially at our level. I wish the realities of the roster were not the case, but it is. But lay off Mike. We're fortunate to have someone of his stature at the helm, covering the program. [/QUOTE]

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