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[QUOTE="HoustonCuse, post: 228430, member: 87"]
The parallels to the late 80s are amazing. We are at a peak of the program's success and yet you can just feel the earth crumbling under your feet. The program has cycles:
 
a) Average to Good performance for a period
b) Recruiting ramps up
c) Outstanding performance for a period leading to a crescendo
d) NCAA investigation/scandal
e) Recruiting tanks
) repeat
 
For all the world it seems like this latest Melo suspension officially transitioned us from point c to d (although we do have an already signed good class coming in next year). Combine this with JB's impending retirement and move to the ACC and it could spell the effective end for Syracuse as a major player in college basketball. Note: I am not saying this will happen, but rather that the combined forces pushing on this program right now and in the near future dramatically increase the odds of a total collapse.
 
As I was terribly worried about when the Fine stuff happened: it would cause everyone and their sister to go through the program's dirty dishes with a microscope. I'll bet that no top level D1 program could withstand that scrutiny. I knew other shoes would drop. The drugs thing was that. We have every reason to believe that more issues/problems/scandals will follow.
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