The Syracuse Blue Demons

[RyanCuse44]

It's simple..DePaul didn't have the transfer portal they had to depend on recruiting. After this season if Red hits the portal hard and brings in good players and coaches them well they can turn it around in 1 year

I'm hoping Reds not here for next year.

 

[hungrychuck]

Good post. Just one quibble…

“It's hard for a private school embraced only by the city of Syracuse to compete with public schools embraced by entire states.”

I’ve met a LOT of upstaters from Albany, Rochester and Buffalo who are huge SU basketball fans. Hell I’ve met no small amount of folks from the 5 boros who are huge SU hoops fans. And I’m talking about people with no other affiliation to the school.

Obviously the core is in metro Syracuse, but the SU basketball fanbase is vast. In fact, as recently as a few years ago SU had a top 10 fan base in terms of size in the country. It’s one of the reasons why our expectations need to be much, much higher than what we’ve seen the past several years.

The SU footprint is arguably much larger than the state of Connecticut.