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[QUOTE="malpearl31, post: 3208611, member: 6520"]
I did a little digging through the old record books... and to find a kid who improved steadily from year 1 through year 3, I had to go all the way back to a guy named... Frank Howard.  1.6 ppg/1.8 apg/10.5 mpg as a freshman, 4.5 ppg/3.6 apg/16.2 mpg as a sophomore, 14.4 ppg/4.7 apg/38.4 mpg as a junior.  Love him or hate him (and at times I was squarely in each camp), he improved significantly - and I will always believe that his pre-season injury was the biggest reason why last year was a disappointment.

Before Frank, I had to go all the way back to... Michael Gbinije.  1.7 ppg/0.2 apg/5.8 mpg as a freshman (at Duke, obviously), 3.4 ppg/1.2 apg/14.6 mpg as a redshirt sophomore, 12.7 ppg/3.6 apg/35.0 mpg as a junior, and finally a great senior year with 17.5 ppg/4.3 apg/37.9 mpg.  There weren't many of us who watched him struggle during the 2013-14 season that thought that he would be the leading scorer on a Final Four team just 2 years later...

If you want to make the argument that we haven't developed frontcourt players the same way in recent years, that might be a valid criticism.  But even if that's the case - who are you really referring to?  Moyer?  Chukwu?  Dajuan?  Tyler Roberson is probably the best recent example of a frontcourt player that didn't develop the way we all hoped.  I guess if you want to pin that on Boeheim, you can - I don't know how you separate the blame (if that's even the right word) between the player and the coach, though.
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