I once got to spend time with the Director of Scouting for an NBA team. I was bemoaning the state of Syracuse basketball. I repeated the line you hear a lot here about how Boeheim sort of drove it into the ground. He laughed. "In Boeheim's
worst 10-year stretch, he had an overall winning percentage off about 64%. If you extrapolate that out and compare that to the
winning-est programs of all time, that would put Syracuse as 15th ranked program of all time. And that's his WORST stretch."
He agreed Boeheim had some bad seasons at the end. But even his "bad" seasons were just average. "Syracuse has no concept of a bad basketball season," he said.
Well, we might have that concept pretty soon.
I think Autrey needs to get Leno'd.
Bring Boeheim back. Let him coach until we've identified a
really strong candidate for head coach. (One who has had success at some level as a head-coach.)
Boeheim knows the program, and knows these kids (at least to some extent, I assume). If we brought in someone for an interim coach role, having a hall-of-fame coach do it is more likely to revitalize the players rather than some random asst coach on a program that's already not doing well. And that gives us the best chance to keep Kiyan in the fold.
I know it's a crazy idea. But I'm not sure it's necessarily crazier than waiting to see something from Autrey who has yet to show me anything that suggests an aptitude for in-game coaching or pre-grame planning or an ability to motivate players.
