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[QUOTE="OrangeFoo, post: 3211175, member: 210"]
I think a lot of that was because back in the day even the backups were good... look at our own bench for a great example. The Allen Griffin senior year team was one of my favorite diamonds in the rough because no one expected anything and then Griffin turned out to be a great floor leader, Damone Brown a senior leader who did a little bit of everything and we had Meshawn and Shump emerge as bona fide players. Other than Brown these guys had been backups their previous years at Syracuse. Even Brown was second fiddle to other players, waiting his turn to be the star. Can you imagine Meshawn, Shump, Griffin level players on our bench these days?

Heres a hypothetical, if freshmen Shump was a freshman in this era of Syracuse hoops... would he have ever had the chance to develop or would he have been run off? He didn't emerge till he as a junior really.

The fall of this program comes down to the fall of recruiting and the inability to develop players whether because they decide to leave prematurely or the coach doesn't give them a chance. In today's world you either need to go for the one and done strategy or develop players and our strategy seems to be do do neither.
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