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[QUOTE="Col. Bleep, post: 2560559, member: 1023"]
Losing Matthew Moyer like that suggests to me that there is something wrong with Orange basketball.
Not in the W's & L's.
But in the way the program sees itself and its mission.

Moyer is the kind of kid SU - or any team - should have been glad and proud to have and keep.
He wanted to be there, he seemed to care about academics and he worked and played hard.

Limited upside...perhaps.
But he's the kind of kid who could have developed into one of those 4-year contributors the Orange have developed (or used to) over the years.

Instead, he obviously had his mind made up to leave as soon as the season was over.
Something drove him away.
Maybe Boeheim's public comments...maybe more.
But it's wrong.

If we're just about W's and L's... we shouldn't complain about tactics other places use to land players.
We shouldn't care about one and dones.
And we probably shouldn't pretend to be a real "college" team.
Because college and the college experience apparently mean little, if anything.

And I'm honestly sad about that and about losing a guy like Matthew Moyer.
Because it means that when you get right down to it, my alma mater team stands for little.
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