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[QUOTE="Fat tire 13, post: 2100063, member: 6171"]
Ok, we are in agreement on some parts, like our inability to play more than 7-8 people.  The title of the thread is Syracuse is a graveyard for centers.  My interpretation is that would mean we either kill centers' NBA potential, or other programs would do a better job of developing centers.  If Danny Schayes is your main example, that is a reach.  He played behind Bouie (who interestingly went to play in Europe, so who knows what would have happened).  It's easy for a journeyman center to stick around.  It is more about avoiding injuries than skill.  He averaged under 10 points in his career.  Plus guys tended to wait their turn back then.  It was common.

Back to the original question, I still stick by the opinion that centers are better off here than most other places.  Looking at the list of players throughout the years, I don't see any centers who failed at Cuse who looked like they ever had any chance in the NBA.  Another way to look at it is transfers.  Off the top of my head, the only transfers I can think of who found success elsewhere were 1/2/3s.  Then look at all the guys who improved a bunch in college, and that list is very big.  I won't rehash them all right now.

Finally when there are actually 2 good centers, it is the one position where we will go 2 deep (McNeil, Baye).  It's the guards that get frustrated and bounce (Tony Bland).  Coleman is injured.   If he could move, I'm pretty sure he would be in the rotation.  God knows we need some defensive depth
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