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[QUOTE="RF2044, post: 5603242, member: 40"]
Sobering.

I'll add that over that since that 2016 F4, we've had DOUBLE DIGIT losses in every season, "only" had 10 losses once, and have averaged more than [U]14 losses per year[/U].

During that span, we've also fielded our only two losing records in nearly five decades, with 17 and 19 losses respectively.  And we haven't been to the NCAA tournament in 4 straight years, going on 5.

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It is a shocking dropoff.

These numbers are just going from memory, so order of magnitude, but I remember doing some analysis around this Boeheim's final year.  Prior to 2016, he'd won something like 73% [and it might be slightly different, but order of magnitude it is directionally accurate] of his games.  From 2016 to the end, it was something like 55% -- and we had a losing conference record in the ACC.

This wasn't a "dip" in performance, it was a consistent, steady decline over a multi-year span of time.  We finished in the bottom half of the conference 6 out of those 10 years [and came in 8th place one of the other times].

I think this consistent poor performance is what has driven fan apathy.

Factor in frustration with the poor play in general over the past two years, and I think attendance is bottoming out, in direct correlation with the poor product on the court.
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