Only a crazy person would put FSU in the same group as Duke, UNC, UVA and the Ville. Anything to further his anti-Boeheim agenda.
At this instant Sunday night, FSU/Duke/UNC/UVa/Lville are 5 of the top 17 ranked teams
according to the press or 5 of the top 19 according to the coaches. OSU reaches #25 via the
coaches, penn state barely gets votes, Iowa does not.
As far as SU's "great" shooters go, they might be great if left open, but they haven't yet
shown the ability to get open against the better teams, aside from Hughes. That is a problem
for this team. They lack a driver or a post guy who can suck the D away from the shooters
and/or the right play calling or execution to free them.
And Syracuse should never, ever be in a situation where the coach and some fans try to sell how
good the team is if they had more tuneups, or played Bucknell, or whatever. If that's the
level of opponent SU needs to succeed, then I think the fanbase is being let down. It's
time for SU to get past being a .500 team in the ACC.
I'll take the win over GT and the purchased wins over mid level teams and ones over the lower
tier ACC, but so what. Beat some real teams.
Kev