You know, I’m watching some these high level games and these teams are head and shoulders above us offensively. Not just shot making but just the fluidity of their offense and offensive sets. Some of these teams also have a lot of new guys on the team like us. Kentucky has like 11 new guys and they put up 106 on Florida today. Why does it take our teams so long to gel? I’m not buying the, we have a lot of new guys excuse anymore. Some of these other teams with many transfers already look like they’ve playing together for three years. I’m not buying the NIL and transfer excuse anymore. Not buying the freshman excuse either. Plenty of other teams are excelling with multiple transfers and some with freshman playing decent minutes. I don’t know what the issue is?
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We were probably a better 3 point shooting team last season. I am guessing the expectation was for Wilcher and Dunlap to get better and Scott to be better.
UNC wins 74-73 on road @ ND.. with a 3to tie by Cadeau & a FT w/ 5 sec left
Ian Jackson 27 pts
Ian Jackson 27 pts
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THEM IN THE SAME CONFERENCE STILL JUST DOESN'T COMPUTE.
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That's not helpful.
I don't think they would make a change after this year but Red Autry is not exactly setting the world on fire.
Lots of grumbling up in Syracuse circles that maybe they should have done an actual search rather than just hand it to Autry.
Obviously the program began to slipt the last several years under Jimmy, I would argue the last 8-10 years under Boeheim the program clearly was sliding (2016 Final 4 run not withstanding). Similar to the last 5-6 years at Indiana under Knight. Not terrible, still made NCAA's for the most part but no longer Nationally relevant.
They now risk being totally irrelevant. Brent Axe who has covered Syracuse sports for decades said recently he talks to people everyday who literally no longer follow the program. These were once hardcore fans. Going to SU games at the Dome was literally the biggest thing up there. People would go thru snowstorms to attend games vs low level programs. Now tons of apathy.
Not one tear. And I am now chopping my third onion.
agree what I shared was after he signed
where did you hear/read that Pitino had to make calls to Golden @ FL on Clayton's behalf to consider him and he needed to be he in Florida because his parents missed him ?
Is that fact or opinion? If fact would love to see that if published.Just sounds crazy.
He could have went anywhere. A child on way for Clayton, different story and much more plausible plus the $ as to how he got to FL vs SJU or anywhere else.
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Bernie Fine on short list of candidates.
Stanford has enough money to buy their own plane.
Sure they have solid bank roll, but just imagine the bigger ones
I was curious and found the article this is based off of. It's very interesting.
Some context: "Now, the NCAA will allow mid-major schools such as VCU to share revenue if they opt in to a lawsuit settlement in which the NCAA has agreed to pay $2.8 billion to former athletes denied the chance to profit off their abilities. VCU will forgo a portion of its NCAA revenue — about $140,000 next year — that will be diverted to the plaintiffs. The settlement still needs final approval from a judge, which could come early this year."
Also, in terms of other budgets:
"Under the terms of the settlement, each college can spend about $21 million to compensate players in the 2025-26 school year. That number is expected to increase each year.
Some colleges have discussed allotting 75% to football players, 15% to men’s basketball players and 10% to athletes of other sports, McLaughlin said. That means a college spending the maximum could budget $3.2 million for a men’s basketball team, or an average of about $250,000 per player. Universities must disclose to the NCAA payments greater than $600.
How much a player makes will be driven by the market. At VCU, men’s basketball players bring more revenue than other sports and are expected to receive the largest payments. VCU intends to spend on men’s basketball as much as other top teams in its conference, the Atlantic 10, and rank in the top 35 nationally."
So if this is top 35 nationally and football takes up the vast majority of the budget, you have to think Big East schools have a distinct advantage in this landscape.