Side note—-does anyone else find it hilarious that ESPN cares so little about GW these days that they haven’t even changed the name despite having an entire article about the name change attached to the team home page. Lol wow.

I’m an old man before I even hit 30. Damn. They warned me this would happen if I didn’t eat my flintstones gummies every morning!

Woah, hope nobody took what I said as disparaging anyone. Just pointing out that this small group that has lead to this change are A) not a demographic that would be negatively affected by the perceived offense and B) that yes, this “woke” (or whatever you’d like to call it if that’s too harsh of a word) trend of changing such ridiculous things for sake of “see. We are allies” is detrimental to actual movements fighting actual causes. Nobody cares about an M&M or Colonials. Real progress was changing our forts from the names of traitors who fought on the side of oppression and bondage. This here? This is a bunch of rich progressive kids who didn’t get enough attention that week.

Half of those same kids who were apparently so butt hurt over colonials probably couldn’t spell this new name. Revolutionaries lmaooooo so basically the colonials!

Merrick wrote:

All about gambling and busted brackets too. Fewer viewers when there is no personal stake.

Yeah the first week I stopped by a casino and saw hundreds of people around the sports book. Went to that same spot same time the second week and I don’t even think a hundred people were there. This week there might be less.

NIT champs! I know this thread is bound to go off the rails and turn into a real Charlie Foxtrot but it was a fond memory of mine to go to the Mecca with a bunch of my family members and root for the team in a not so close victory over a good Valpo team.

GWRising wrote:

Joel Joseph wrote:

Everyone from Boeheim on up the chain at Syracuse knew about the Bernie Fine situation. If not, it's part of their job description to know and can't claim ignorance as a defense.

Just as Maltzman, Knapp and company knew about our own sexual predator Nero and turned a blind eye towards it until GW was exposed by a recruit's parent and they finally excised him.

 

Pretty familiar with the facts in both situations. The GW case was far worse from this standpoint. The information was given to Maltzman and Knapp. They chose to ignore it. In the case of Syracuse Admin., no information was brought to the Syracuse Admin. until the guy went public in the media years later. Also, two of the complainants later recanted their claims against Fine saying they made them up. The state investigation resulted in no charges because the statute of limitations had run. There was a separate federal investigation and no charges were brought against Fine.

I am not defending Fine here by any stretch. I have no idea whether he was guilty or not. But to say that Boeheim was complicit in something that may or may not have happened is a stretch.

I’m more than willing to admit I was wrong. Have no insider info on that whole situation so I didn’t know all of that

Alum '04 wrote:

The Dude wrote:

So there goes the first chip, as Boeheim is forced out (he made it quite clear the school is forcing him out he's not "retiring" just like with Mike Brey.)

After nearly 50 and 20+ years both guys deserved better, but it is a results business and "what did you do for me today" world


 

Boeheim deserved better? How so? Dude is the biggest a55hole in sports. Paid players. Killed someone and had it covered up. Belittles SU student reporters. One of college basketball's biggest whiners. Thank God SU finally grew some spine and fired him.
 

You forgot his assistant coach was a sexual predator and he probably helped cover that up for a while

Ewing is awful, a move to keep him next season would be basically telling the fanbase the athletics department doesn't give a good damn about winning, success, or anything like that. Plain and simple. Get him out of there. It has been embarrassing to see them play and I am not even a fan!

Idk if that would impact. Lots of moving parts now with the Orange too