This is just another embarrassment under the Nero/Vogel leadership of the athletic department over the past decade.  I don't understand how Vogel still has a job here outside of being an alum.  I can't think of one thing she has done that inspires confidence that this is the right person for the job.  Outside of the Swimming program, are any of our teams successful?  Have we had one PR win in the past 5 years?

I wanted to re-up this thread due to the recent losing streaks by both the men and women's teams.  This isn't meant as an "I told you so", but more to gauge the temperature in the room the way the season has progressed for both teams.  Are we still as convinced that these extensions were the right move, or do you think knowing what we know now that we should have taken a more conservative approach?

Dayton and VCU are bad examples, because if you are sports fan, what else are you going to watch in Dayton or Richmond.  Its not like they have to compete against the Wizards, Capitols, or the myriad of other cultural opportunities that exist here but not in those smaller cities.  Also, there is the winning factor.  Winning cures all, and those programs have been winning for decades.  I think I saw that VCU hasn't had a losing season in 20 years.  Fans know that they are going to see a decent product when they go to those games.  There hasn't been a guarantee of that here since ML was fired, and that was even debatable.  You really have to go back to Hobbs, but probably Jarvis.  I think with consistent winning, you will see a return of fans and not amount of marketing will probably change that.

Not to be a contrarian here, but I don't love this.  While I like everything we have seen from CC so far, I'd still like him to prove it a little more before we go all with him.  MoJo looked ok his first season, and then the wheels started to fall off the next year.  JC looked like he showed a lot of promise after his first year, and was highly regarded across the coaching industry.  In the end, that all was fool's gold and he was proven to be not capable of handling an A-10 level program.  I'd like to see a little more from CC to show he is the real deal rather than giving him more time and money upfront and him showing that he isn't the right guy for the job, and we start over again, but have to spend more money to do it.

It's gotta be Pops.  Nobody personified those Hobbs teams more than him and for 4 years he was the unofficial mayor of Foggy Bottom.  Carl may have been more of a winner, but when I think of those teams, I think of Pops dunking on everyone.  

I'm an upstate NY Native and a lifelong Syracuse fan.  I'll always love Boeheim for what he did for the area.  Was he a jerk at times, especially to reports (even student ones), absolutely.  However, Alum '04 comments are way out of line.  Particularly, "Killed someone and had it covered up."  That is complete and total BS,  The situation with the car accident was an absolute tragedy, and to throw it around casually like this is crass.  It's disrespectful to Boeheim, the city of Syracuse and to the victim himself.  I expected better from people on this site.

I watched the game as well.  The last minute was crazy.  Felt so good for Battle making that shot.  I really seemed like the refs were searching for some way to take the win away from Minn.  I'm interested in seeing what this loss does to Rutgers NCAA hopes.

1996 Kentucky is probably at the top of the list by almost any criteria.  They only have two losses on the season, won every game in the NCAA tournament pretty handily and had 9 players play in the NBA, including multiple first round picks.

By the logic used to get rid of Colonial, I don't know how you can you use Revolution or Revolutionaries.  Pretty sure more people have died or were oppressed in violent revolutions (Russia, China, Cuba, Iran) than were during the Colonial period in the United States.  But, since it didn't happen here, I guess it doesn't count.  That all seems pretty xenophobic to me.

If he is anything like his father, this is an awesome get.