Marcellus Barnes in the portal

[SURules]

so much for homesick?

Maybe not DART as the old homesick stuff is out the window with SMU or Kentucky

 

[NJCuse97]

Maybe not DART as the old homesick stuff is out the window with SMU or Kentucky

Last I looked, Kentucky and Tennessee shared a lot of border.

 

[IthacaBarrel]

Last I looked, Kentucky and Tennessee shared a lot of border.

About a 4 hour drive from his hometown to Lexington and I bet that is where he winds up but SMU has serious $ to throw at kids, so it will be pretty easy to tell what he is after here.

 

[MSOrange]

Last I looked, Kentucky and Tennessee shared a lot of border.

Yep if homesick is the reason, I can buy Kentucky. SMU doesn't exactly scream homesick but I can see why they would be an attractive destination.

 

[IthacaBarrel]

Yep if homesick is the reason, I can buy Kentucky. SMU doesn't exactly scream homesick but I can see why they would be an attractive destination.

Yeah wherever he winds up, he clearly was not happy at Syracuse for some reason

 

[RyanCuse44]

Please Kentucky. Don’t want to play him this upcoming season.

He'll probably be hurt.

 

[NJCuse97]

Yeah wherever he winds up, he clearly was not happy at Syracuse for some reason

JB Reafsnyder didn’t live the cold either (speculation about Barnes). If JB didn’t spend high school in Ohio, I bet he’d have wound up “home” too. He used to talk about wanting to play at UCLA, especially in 1994/95

 

[Trueblue25]

Kentucky and SMU… clearly chasing bags.

 

[IthacaBarrel]

JB Reafsnyder didn’t live the cold either (speculation about Barnes). If JB didn’t spend high school in Ohio, I bet he’d have wound up “home” too. He used to talk about wanting to play at UCLA, especially in 1994/95

20 degrees in Chatanooga, TN this morning. He's not from Florida and I get it huge difference but I doubt the weather is why he left but it certainly was something

 

[IthacaBarrel]

Kentucky and SMU… clearly chasing bags.

Maybe but the $ just goes with the territory these days. I bet there was more to it than just $

 

[PhatOrange]

Kentucky and SMU… clearly chasing bags.

Hometown team made little to no effort to re-recruit him.

 

[richmondcuse03]

Maybe but the $ just goes with the territory these days. I bet there was more to it than just $

Correct. Lots of factors at play. Sometimes kids want more guarantees on playing time. Not totally sure that's the case here but I suspect he may be one that wanted a guarantee and he didn't get it. Fran wants guys who are comfortable competing and it's not for everyone.

 

[kcsu]

He is a talented kid with great upside, so he is a loss from a talent standpoint. It's so easy for kids to leave that I'm really impressed that Fran has already created such a good culture that kids are sticking. Syracuse isn't for everyone so we are going to lose good players for multiple reasons. The key is do we end up with a better roster top to bottom each year. I believe as long as he is the head coach and is supported with a decent amount of NIL that we are going to do well.

 

[SmilinBob]

I'll always appreciate Barnes because of his announcing over the college all star game saying he was going to Syracuse. Let the world know there was a new Sheriff in town and his name is Fran.

 

[DoctorBombay]

Too much overthinking going on.

(1) Nothing wrong w/ "chasing bags"- that ship has sailed...long ago. Can't begrudge the kid for wanting a payoff, and playing status has little to do w/ it, imo. Don't hate the player, hate the game.

(2) It's his loss. NEXT!

 

[IthacaBarrel]

Too much overthinking going on.

(1) Nothing wrong w/ chasing bags"- that ship has sailed...long ago. Can't begrudge the kid for wanting a payoff, and playing status has little to do w/ it, imo. Don't hate the player, hate the game.

(2) It's his loss. NEXT!

yeah, kids leave for a ton of different reasons, not just "chasing bags" which the NIL component factors into everything these days, but the roster is fluid until the day all the deadlines are closed for the season of 25, then and only then can you really look at the team and know what you have for 5 months and then it gets flipped on its head all over.

Barnes was the biggest surprise to me, clearly something didn't click. ( NOT DART or CCD) Next...

 

[Bulldog04]

Kentucky and SMU… clearly chasing bags.

And that SMU campus is unreal. Best part of Dallas in HP. I really hope they play them there in late October or November next year. Must go

 

[upperdeck]

Lots of money on a kid that has played very little and shown some glimpses of talent. It would have made more sense if this was yr 3 and he had a solid yr 2 behind him.

 

[GoSU96]

And that SMU campus is unreal. Best part of Dallas in HP. I really hope they play them there in late October or November next year. Must go

Bryson bucks.

 

[anomander]

Last I looked, Kentucky and Tennessee shared a lot of border.

4 hours might as well be 10 hours. 8 hour round trip home won’t happen too often. Plus, let’s see where he ends up. I said before 9 out of 10 times it will be $ that talks. When he was healthy he started as a true Freshman. Thought he was a good coverage corner but wasn’t physically ready to help with the run. that will improve as he gets stronger. Either way he was a loss. It happens.

 

[MSOrange]

4 hours might as well be 10 hours. 8 hour round trip home won’t happen too often. Plus, let’s see where he ends up. I said before 9 out of 10 times it will be $ that talks. When he was healthy he started as a true Freshman. Thought he was a good coverage corner but wasn’t physically ready to help with the run. that will improve as he gets stronger. Either way he was a loss. It happens.

4 hours is at least realistic for his parents to drive to home games Friday night or Saturday morning and then head home Sunday, if homesick is really a factor.

 

[Niastri]

4 hours might as well be 10 hours. 8 hour round trip home won’t happen too often. Plus, let’s see where he ends up. I said before 9 out of 10 times it will be $ that talks. When he was healthy he started as a true Freshman. Thought he was a good coverage corner but wasn’t physically ready to help with the run. that will improve as he gets stronger. Either way he was a loss. It happens.

4 hours isn't nothing, but I grew up in Syracuse and originally went to school in Boston, about 5 hours door to door. After transferring home, I went to Boston a lot of weekends to see my friends. No way I could have gone that often if it was a 10 hour drive.

It's a big difference.

 

[PhatOrange]

4 hours is at least realistic for his parents to drive to home games Friday night or Saturday morning and then head home Sunday, if homesick is really a factor.

Yeah, and taking days off from work to travel and pulling kids out of school if they’re still in school etc. it’s not a leave Friday after work be home Sunday night trip. A 4 Hour drive is a game changer I know because my kid is a 12 Hour drive.

Dallas is roughly the same distance to Chattanooga as Syracuse is. money would trump homesickness in that event I guess.

 

[sufandu]

And that SMU campus is unreal. Best part of Dallas in HP. I really hope they play them there in late October or November next year. Must go

A mom I talked to who's son is transferring there just said the same thing about the campus. She also said her son is getting a very nice NIL package.

 

[Bulldog04]

A mom I talked to who's son is transferring there just said the same thing about the campus. She also said her son is getting a very nice NIL package.

It’s definitely the game I’m going to next year along with atl. Direct flight now from cuse to DFW. Incredible weekend there