I haven't gone to a stadium or arena in at least five years and viewed the food options as a positive. Its either mediocre, wildly overpriced, or both. Its so universal that I suspect Wildhack is correct, its largely out of his control - and maybe the best any team can do at this point is minimize how sucky it is. This goes in "who cares" for me -its not a pro or con.
The one clearly negative mark I'd agree to on Wildhack is the Hillsman situation. I'm not sure how much of that he had control over or knowledge of - I'm not really interested in a discussion or debate on it either. I'd say if he didn't know it was his responsibility to, and it went on too long. But this comes up close to never when people are griping about his job performance, or its an aside at best. The focus is men's basketball and lacrosse, with a dash of football thrown in since about mid-October this year.
I worry that some Syracuse fans don't recognize how much college lacrosse has changed - its unlikely we'll see anything close to the 80s/90s dominance again. I'd agree it has been disappointing...I'm not sure if we get better people have a standard that is reasonable here. We've haven't been anywhere close to "good enough" in my mind to be able to fairly judge this. Probably a slight negative - but not as big a negative as many people here think (I think).
Its absolutely wild to me that nobody has brought up the soccer national championship (at least that I've seen). I get that Wildhack started in 2016 and McIntyre has been coach since 2010 - but if we're going to take the position he's got to be in the know on everything (see: Hillsman), he's gotta get some credit for the soccer national championship.
Any time Syracuse has had great success in football, its because of outside-the-box thinking. There's a reason why the first black Heisman Trophy winner was from Syracuse and that his time here overlaps with the most successful period in Syracuse history. If we're going to see sustained success again, it will be a result of outside-the-box thinking. I will continue to defend the hiring of Brown regardless of how things go from here - if we don't support an AD making outside the box thinking we'll get "safe" decisions that leads to a bunch of 6-6, 7-5 season being viewed as success on the hill. We've already seen a significant cultural pull towards making the safe decision - If we go back to the Shaw/Jake era that was the message they kept telling the fans. The financial risk of not making safe decisions and wrecking the AD budget for years is a looming risk at a private university as well. Anyone saying "we need to see how Brown works out before we judge that hire" has the wrong mentality - Wildhack took a calculated risk in an environment where that is actively discouraged. He should be applauded for it regardless how it "works out".
