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[QUOTE="bozophobe, post: 1977217, member: 2589"]
Boeheim basically banked the future of his grandkids when he handed the keys over to the playground-style guards like Pearl and Sherm, and the occasional inventive Moten-like player. I recall thumbing through a season preview mag (Athlon?) at Wegmans in the late 1980s, and catching a comment that point guard at Syracuse "is one of the better jobs in college basketball."

It's true that he could do tons more with the chalkboard on offense, but I can't under any circumstance imagine anyone over the age of 70 suddelnly slamming it into 4th gear, job load-wise, without sacrificing some other aspect of his day (although he could, theoretically, alter his "15 hour work day" by sacrificing that hour he spends putting up his feet in the office while waiting for those obscure call-in show hosts to be ready for his 10 minute interview in favor of gathering the troops for an injection of new strategies).

The OP is rife with player movement ideas, and rightly so, but for decades I wished Boeheim would conjure up a little of his inner Ivy League coach (which we now know was there, based on his son...) and at least work a couple extra passes in, which would be great this year with 5 dangerous outside shooters. Like others said, turning Trevor Cooney into the Tasmanian Devil didn't necessarily lead to a net gain. The beauty of the passed ball is that it travels faster than even Gary Payton-level talent in 22nd century high-tops.
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