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[QUOTE="OttoMets, post: 99323, member: 716"]
Yeah, "middling" seems like a pretty diplomatic way to put it. At the time, those were disappointing teams. With the benefit of hindsight, that was a rough era.

Between Wallace and the 2001 high school class, we had next to no sought-after recruits actually play for us. Thues, Celuck, Davis, Cole were brought in. The Florida State loss in 1997 was the first time I thought both Boeheim and the players gave up on a game. We lost in two different Carrier Classics. Three of the worst-ever Boeheim-era losses (1996 Kentucky, 1996 West Virginia, and 2001 Kansas) occurred during this time period. (EDITED - found the attendance numbers) And this was the stretch that saw Dome attendance plummet; this is when the drop from #1 to #4 occurred, as we lost ~6,000 season ticketholders and went from 24,500/game to 17,500/game.

The 1999-2000 team was a legitimate talented group of well-coached, under-recruited guys. Nearly everything else between 1996 and 2002 involved cast-off recruits trying to hang on and win games.
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