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[QUOTE="OttoMets, post: 2001625, member: 716"]
This will make certain posters go crazy, but it's probably close to the truth. SU's future might look a little like Wake Forest, an occasional player but not a power. And that's assuming that the school handles a slide and the ensuing attendance problem well.

Boeheim's not the coach he once was. People decline at some point, and he's a little conservative and seems unable to resurrect the idea of running offensive sets.

Boeheim's successor will not be as good as Boeheim was at his best, and he probably won't be as good as Boeheim is right now. Why? Because Boeheim's very good, and there's only a handful of coaches out there who are better.

So if we're replacing an institution who's limped to a sub-.600 record over ~3 seasons with a coach who's worse, some shaky basketball could be in our future. And if that results in only 11,000 people who want to buy tickets to watch a basketball game in the end zone, Syracuse's program will have a lot less appeal than it did during the glory era.

There's a lot of uncertainty right now, and most of it is out of SU's control. But it's very possible that the basketball program's best days are behind it.
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