Syracuse is not that bad of a city. It is not like Buffalo or Erie. Even Buffalo is trying hard to not be the Buffalo I visited 15 years ago.
I am not a Jim Boeheim fan because, in my view, he has become lazy over the last few years and should have retired in 2016. He recruits decent talent when he should be able to recruit much better. Syracuse is a HUGE Basketball and Lacrosse school and they routinely average ~25K attendance per BBall game. The dome is absolutely rocking for these games. Who doesn't want to play in front of 25K every home game? How Syracuse is not able to consistently attract the true blue chip prospects a Kentucky or Kansas gets remains a mystery to me. I dig the 2-3 zone and the way Boeheim teaches the 2-3 is unique and active. The Cuse 2-3 is much better than any other team's 2-3 because that is ALL they do and practice on D. Boeheim should have retired a few years ago and allowed their HC in waiting - Mike Hopkins - to take over. Boeheim didn't and Hopkins got sick of waiting and left for Washington (Seattle).
Boeheim is a legend but IMO it was a mistake for the Cuse admin to allow Hopkins to leave. The great things about using the 2-3 the way Boeheim does is that it should allow his team more time to focus on O but that hasn't been the case as of late as Cuse has struggled on O for quite some time. Its all pretty inexcusable. They had a great run but this Cuse team was/is capable of it and one has to wonder why the issues on O have not been addressed.
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