Stay snug rats! The ship isn’t sinking. The face of basketball is changing rapidly. You don’t have to be young or hip or charming to adapt. I am so sick of the freaking man crush so many of you ooze for Hopkins and the perilous adventure we would have embarked on with him. Bodody can predict fortunes in life or college basketball. Look at all the cupcakes eating the majors this year. We became accustomed to a coach who overachieved on a national level with underwhelming recruits. He did so so regularly we became accustomed to it. The body isn’t cold yet. Boeheim has earned our enduring respect and loyalty. So we experience the seesaw, which all but a precious few programs live on! Maybe we get back to where we were. Maybe we don’t. In my book Boeheim leaves on his own terms. In my book I have no expectations of what his terms should be. The man has given me more entertainment and joy as a Syracuse fan than I could have hoped for or expected
If it was a seesaw, nobody would disagree with you. But it ain't a seesaw.
It's Pasqualoni Part 2. Should we stop the sequel before it gets too late?
What, literaly, is the bottom line?
This team might not win 12 games this year.
We have pair of 4 star guys coming in next year, being a bit generous with Woody.
This team is not going to get a lot better next year, and then it's Buddy's senior year.
What if we win 10 games this year, and are looking at maybe 15 wins and the NIT next year?
Seriously, nobody is going to put on 40 pounds at center.
Nobody we have at guard is going to develop "Plus" athleticism.
It's not going to change very much next year, either. That's the scary part.
This last point has led me to see this as "The End".
I'm more sad than angry. I wanted Jim to go out better than this.
As Dasher said recently, that was 3 years ago when he had just made the Final Four. That should have been it.