What we took for granted about JB.

[Cusefan0307]

Man, we would have WALKED to the title with AO.

We would have had KSU on the short turn after their 2OT game.
We would have had MSU with their injured guard out.
We would have smoked that Duke team.

I think we win it all without AO even if we got past Butler and the horrific officiating that day.

 

[CuseFaninVT]

I am curious what even made you a fan in the first place if you were looking at our team in the early 2010s and going yep, this guy sucks actually. The reason he survived the sanctions is because we just had a run of elite years from the late 2000s to early/mid 2010s. Hindsight is 20/20, but that is why. I am tapping out. Boneyard is two doors down on your right if you want to continue this convo with like minded folk.

Graduated from ESF in 95.

Really no need to be a douche

 

[Cuseball]

He was elite. A long time ago. But he wasn’t successful enough in my opinion. Needed a once in a lifetime player to get over the hump and win a chip. It is what it is.

If your qualifier to be elite is to win more than one title then again only 17 coaches and 11 in the modern era are elite.

Izzo isn't elite. Tony Bennett isn't elite. Certainly Eddie Sutton, John Chaney, Kelvin Sampson and Mark Few aren't elite as they have never won a title . If you asked anyone in the industry if JB was elite the answer would be yes. The Hall of Fame, without bias, has ended this argument.

Cuse

 

[AlaskaSU]

No, that is how you are choosing to judge JB since it is by far the category that makes him look the worst. You are salty about how his time here ended and its role in the current situation. You are a fan in the first place because we were one of the elite teams in the country for a very long time.

From 1980-2012 JB had TEN big east regular season titles. The hardest conference in the sport and we were the best regular season team in that conference almost a third of the time! His big east regular season record is by far the best of any team during that time. So the argument people make that we just got our wins against cupcakes is BS.

And for the people who argue that we coasted on talent and didn't do it with coaching, Jerami Grant just became like only the third (edit-4th) guy from cuse EVER to hit 10,000 points in the league. Oshae Brissett is a top 20 cuse NBA player!! His teams were not packed with future NBA studs, and we still had an insane run in the toughest conference in the sport. You are blinded by the last 10-12 years. I understand why given how bad it had been, but still, acting like JB was not an elite coach is weak sauce.

An analysis was done of performance in the Big Dance based on teams exceeding their rank. Syracuse was #1. Stop with the JB slander.