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Message: [QUOTE="nccusefan, post: 5659373, member: 846"] There are plenty of reasons for the decline a Syracuse basketball but moving to the ACC isn’t one of them. Syracuse was put on probation and lost scholarships. Other teams used Boeheim’s age to recruit against him. Boeheim was being out worked in recruiting by other coaches, sending assistant coaches to recruit against head coaches. We used zone defense which worked great when teams had 1-2 shooters. Offenses have changed where teams have 3-4 shooters on the court. This defense also required us to have superior length and athleticism which we haven’t had in a while. For years we have a very basic offense which works well with superior athletes and upper classmen who have played together. It gives players a lot of freedom and allows for playmakers to make plays but lacks structure and doesn’t create easy shots for players. Players are now getting NIL that has favored large state schools with large alumni bases that tend to be more local. State schools rarely run the athletic department like a business and frequently subsidize athletics. OSU won the national championship last year but lost $28 million dollars. It paid off for them as they set records for revenue the following year. Syracuse University doesn’t run the athletic department department like that and that likely doesn’t pay off of OSU if they didn’t have the on field success. Syracuse is also a mid market city in an area that is dominated by professional sports. Whether you are talking about game attendance, tv viewership, or corporate sponsorship Syracuse is at a disadvantage to many of these schools in areas with limited professional options. Western NY has the Bills and Sabers while NYC has the Giants, Jets, Yankees, Mets, Knicks, Nets, Rangers, Islanders, Devils, and Red Bulls. The weakness of the the move to the ACC wasn’t so much geography as it was the TV contracts the ACC signed. The long term TV contract and grant of rights was seen as huge plus to the stability of the league when Syracuse joined. It now has been surpassed by other leagues who have renegotiated multiple times since then. If Syracuse hadn’t joined the ACC back then we would be in a worse place. The Big East couldn’t function with some schools playing football and others not playing. Syracuse was not going to abandon football and we likely would have ended up in the Big12 or even worse ConferenceUSA or the American Conference. We have almost no historical ties to those schools. The games would be harder to travel to and the university would have significantly less money to invest into Athletics. [/QUOTE]

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