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Message: [QUOTE="Orange2389, post: 1004207, member: 3386"] Facilities- The Carrier Dome and Melo Center are among the best in college basketball. While some around the game see the Carrier Dome as old and insufficient for basketball, I am certain that the Dome adds to the game day experience. Rate A+ Coaching- JB is one of the great minds in the history of basketball and we are very lucky he is ours. He put this program on the map and into the national hoops scene. The guy has a court named after him for a reason. I also believe JB deserves his statue as well, when the time is right. Hopkins is a great assistant coach, along with Gerry. Rate A+ Tradition/Prestige. Top 5 program in all time wins. 5 final fours. 1 championship. Speaks for itself. Rate A+ Student Sections- I think this is one of those areas where SU can and should improve on. I realize the configuration of the Dome limits the student section, but bigger minds need to come together and get the students closer to the court on all sides. This is a college program after all. Rate B+ Recruiting- If we truly want to be at the top of college basketball, this is where we are falling short compared to other elite programs. Every year Duke, UNC, Kentucky, Louisville, and Kansas are going after the same recruits. Every year. Syracuse offers a few of these recruits, but we are never in serious contention for most of these kids. We seem to settle for program guys, 3-4 stars. Some of these guys jump early to the NBA, but since Carmelo, when have we had a truly elite freshman come in and take control like he has? Ennis is great and probably the 2nd best talent since Melo, but how does Kansas, Duke, UNC, Kentucky , and Louisville have veteran experience - while reloading each year with perennial 4-5 star guys? As JB mentioned not too long ago, to be successful every year in college basketball, you need to have a healthy mix of freshman stars with veteran leadership. Unfortunately we settle for 3-4 star rated freshman every year, with rare exceptions. Guys like Greene, Flynn, McCullough, MCW, Ennis etc need to be arriving on the hill every year at Syracuse for them to consistently contend for Final Fours IMO. We shouldn't be like the mess that is Kentucky, but we need to step it up. I am all for the idea of having 4 year players along with some elite freshman. I find it unacceptable that a program like Syracuse can potentially lose guys like Grant and Ennis to the draft without reloading next year. All we have next year is question marks. Absolutely unacceptable for an elite program like Syracuse. And we are elite. Rate B+ Feel free to chime in. [/QUOTE]

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