Yeah, big whoopsie here. We can stress to a player how important they are for us, but really it's a bigger and much more important decision for them. We should never tell any player it's just them. Be honest, say we love your game and want you here, but we have to protect ourselves as well.
No excuse? You're basing success/failure on the whims of teenagers and huge schools that are recruiting just as hard. Some of you guys have a really strange mindset on this. As if time recruiting a kid matters.
I mean, if you're cool being middle of the pack ACC, then I guess we can have this mentality.
the fact is that right now, no one can recruit it seems with Duke and Kentucky. A school can have one year that they do (Arizona) but year in and year out, those two get the best players in the country. And I think the Big East was every bit as good if not better than the ACC is. Didn't the Big East set a record with 11 bids a couple of years ago?
Lol, my mentality is irrelevant. So is yours. I think there are misses in recruiting and things we could do better. But "trying harder" or "getting on kids" early are dumb suggestions especially given this recruitment. Gmac is not a complete fail on this one.
Yea, but you'd agree that the ACC has better basketball players/fundamentals/shooting and coaches than the Big East, no?
In the last 7 years, we have been a one seed twice. Both times as good as it gets in the country. We lost our starting center before the tournament both times. 2 other times we went to the final four. Another time we were 25-0. How many schools in the entire country would liked to have had that 7 years? We don't recruit as a rule top 10 guys. There have been a handful but that is not our market.
Here's the problem: Syracuse is in Syracuse. I love my hometown but the first 3 rules of recruiting are location , location, location. And most high school graduates think Syracuse has none of the 3. If location wasn't a factor, Cuse would be pulling in top 5 classes year in year out, no problem. But we ain't. And with everything else Syracuse has to offer we should be.
Its a tough biz. You hope you can uncover young undiscovered talent and lock them up early. But you don't know if you have a dion waiters or kaleb joseph
We also didn't have the uncertainty in our coaching staff. Recruiting is forward thinking and unless you know JB is sticking around, I'm nervous about us staying at that level leading into the Hop-era and not exactly killing it on the recruiting trail.
Yeah, Gerry, Rautins, Shumpert, Melo really couldnt shoot the ball!
A little perspective:
I really don't know how to answer that question. From what I see, the Big east was better than the ACC. The Syracuse team that started 25-0 would not have started anywhere near that in the old Big East. If there was a old Big East / ACC challenge, I think the old Big East would win most years. Bennett, K and Roy are top notch coaches. But who are these other coaches that out shine the coaches we played against in the old Big East?
I'm talking as a conference on the whole. The ACC has better basketball players (shooting/fundamentals). The Big East had better athletes.
What's up bro! People aren't really saying it's you vs. them; we're just saying that you've heard different thing than them
This certainty on his part is legendary
I have one simple question for you. Is it your position that nothing changed this week? That Green is ours and always has been?
I don't get why everyone is so worked up about your info. It's just info, right or wrong. Just like theirs. Btw who is the next target? I'll admit it's sort of the quirkiness of what you do, you don't generally opine broadly on a bunch but more one by one.
No. My position is he announces Syracuse tonight.
