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jimva said:
God their board is depressing. Everything is about NIL/bags of money, like this is all that matters. Makes me really appreciate Hurley and UConn administration, even though everything isn’t perfect across athletic programs now.
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What else to they have to talk about? Their on court/field success?:rolleyes:
 
jimva said:
God their board is depressing. Everything is about NIL/bags of money, like this is all that matters. Makes me really appreciate Hurley and UConn administration, even though everything isn’t perfect across athletic programs now.

Might be a good time to try and schedule recurring games, but wouldn’t do just basketball as it won’t help us and may hurt our rankings given state of their program. But if we could leverage basketball with football, and men’s and women’s soccer and lacrosse, might make sense
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I have noticed this as well and some other boards. The narrative seems to be that they “can’t get recruits because we don’t have NIL bags of money.” I know that’s just the fans and not the athletic department, but it amazes me how much that is a reoccurring theme of people who feel that they are not recruiting successfully.

Dave Benedict has his faults, but he has made two great hires in Dan Hurley, and Jim Mora. Perhaps, equally importantly, though, the athletic department has established an intelligent, “legal” and productive way of managing and developing. NIL money. That’s not a little thing.
 
NJHusky said:
What else to they have to talk about? Their on court/field success?:rolleyes:
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The best/saddest post I saw over there recently was something along the lines of “we are in the dumps with basketball, we still haven’t gotten and probably never will get back to the Pasqueloni years with football, and these days we can’t even lean on lacrosse”
 
Rocktheworld said:
The best/saddest post I saw over there recently was something along the lines of “we are in the dumps with basketball, we still haven’t gotten and probably never will get back to the Pasqueloni years with football, and these days we can’t even lean on lacrosse”
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CL82 said:
I have noticed this as well and some other boards. The narrative seems to be that they “can’t get recruits because we don’t have NIL bags of money.” I know that’s just the fans and not the athletic department, but it amazes me how much that is a reoccurring theme of people who feel that they are not recruiting successfully.

Dave Benedict has his faults, but he has made two great hires in Dan Hurley, and Jim Mora. Perhaps, equally importantly, though, the athletic department has established an intelligent, “legal” and productive way of managing and developing. NIL money. That’s not a little thing.
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Dave has ensured that Cavanaugh and Penders remain in the stable. That's a big deal.

Between Cavanaugh/Penders/Mora/Hurley and Geno, we legitimately have some of the Top 5-15 coaches in their respective sports.

Do any other schools have that comparable stable of coaches across that many sports?
 
CL82 said:
I have noticed this as well and some other boards. The narrative seems to be that they “can’t get recruits because we don’t have NIL bags of money.” I know that’s just the fans and not the athletic department, but it amazes me how much that is a reoccurring theme of people who feel that they are not recruiting successfully.

Dave Benedict has his faults, but he has made two great hires in Dan Hurley, and Jim Mora. Perhaps, equally importantly, though, the athletic department has established an intelligent, “legal” and productive way of managing and developing. NIL money. That’s not a little thing.
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I honestly don’t think Dave has any faults/weaknesses. He’s done a helluva job. Right now his only fault is not getting us into a power football conference and I’m fully confident he’s working on it.
 
Hoophound said:
I honestly don’t think Dave has any faults/weaknesses. He’s done a helluva job. Right now his only fault is not getting us into a power football conference and I’m fully confident he’s working on it.
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I was told by a former booster that he did a poor job on the new ice rink. Some poor seating, and too small for the future. As long as they had to bond, it should have been done right according to him.
 
uconnfan68 said:
I was told by a former booster that he did a poor job on the new ice rink. Some poor seating, and too small for the future. As long as they had to bond, it should have been done right according to him.
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On some levels, he’s not wrong. Toscano is undersized. But State of Connecticut projects have to pay a premium for labor and that limited the scope of the project within the approved budget. Faced with a choice of adding more seats, or building a first class amenities for the hockey teams, Benedict chose the latter. In my opinion it was the right decision, and I fully expect that the barn will follow the Gampel model and get increases to you capacity within the next few years.

For what it’s worth, that doesn’t mean that I agree with every decision made. The student deck is just dumb on a lot of levels. It is a square cinderblock lump on one end of the arena that created obstructed view seats. The ice level lounge, while appealing in concept, probably would’ve been better served by adding capacity instead. Still, it is a first barn, but for the current capacity issue and getting it built was no small feat.
 
CL82 said:
On some levels, he’s not wrong. Toscano is undersized. But State of Connecticut projects have to pay a premium for labor and that limited the scope of the project within the approved budget. Faced with a choice of adding more seats, or building a first class amenities for the hockey teams, Benedict chose the latter. In my opinion it was the right decision, and I fully expect that the barn will follow the Gampel model and get increases to you capacity within the next few years.

For what it’s worth, that doesn’t mean that I agree with every decision made. The student deck is just dumb on a lot of levels. It is a square cinderblock lump on one end of the arena that created obstructed view seats. The ice level lounge, while appealing in concept, probably would’ve been better served by adding capacity instead. Still, it is a first barn, but for the current capacity issue and getting it built was no small feat.
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The greater point is we got a nice facility done. Nothing is perfect. CT is a difficult place to get things done.
 
Hey Adrien! said:
Not the most glowing exit interview from Jesse Edwards, one of Syracuse best players this decade:

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Isn't Edwards Dutch and here on a student visa?

With the recent Sunoco/Sanogo deal, I'm lost on what the rules on regarding foreign visa holders earning $ via NIL.
 
syracuse is absolutely blowing it.

on a side note, i actually really like jesse edwards' game. looking forward to actually being able to root for him. kriisa is an interesting piece for west virginia, too.
 
elmcityboy said:
syracuse is absolutely blowing it.

on a side note, i actually really like jesse edwards' game. looking forward to actually being able to root for him. kriisa is an interesting piece for west virginia, too.
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I like the entire West Virginia haul:

  • Jesse Edwards 6’11 230 GR from Syracuse, 14.5p, 10.3r, 1.6a, 1.4s, 2.7b, 59.2 fg%, 32.6 mpg. One of the best bigs in the NCAA.
  • Kerr Kriisa 6’3 180 SR from Arizona, 9.9p, 2.4r, 5.1a, 0.6s, 36.6 3p%, 31.3 mpg. Creative, elite vision and a very good spacer.
  • Jose Perez 6’5 220 GR from Manhattan, 18.9p, 4.5a, 39.9 fg%, 25.9 3p%, 7.6 fta. Physical facilitator from the elbow.
  • Omar Silverio 6’3 200 GR from Manhattan via Hofstra, 10.9p, 3.3r, 1.1s, 35.8 3p% in 25.9 mpg. Nice spacer off the bench.
They might not even stop there. Iowa State's Caleb Grill is visiting West Virginia too (9.5p, 4.0r, 1.2s, 36.8 3p%).

But yeah, Edwards was one of those Syracuse guys who always played well whenever I watched them and he seems like a good kid. Glad to see him out of that dump.
 
Hey Adrien! said:
I like the entire West Virginia haul:

  • Jesse Edwards 6’11 230 GR from Syracuse, 14.5p, 10.3r, 1.6a, 1.4s, 2.7b, 59.2 fg%, 32.6 mpg. One of the best bigs in the NCAA.
  • Kerr Kriisa 6’3 180 SR from Arizona, 9.9p, 2.4r, 5.1a, 0.6s, 36.6 3p%, 31.3 mpg. Creative, elite vision and a very good spacer.
  • Jose Perez 6’5 220 GR from Manhattan, 18.9p, 4.5a, 39.9 fg%, 25.9 3p%, 7.6 fta. Physical facilitator from the elbow.
  • Omar Silverio 6’3 200 GR from Manhattan via Hofstra, 10.9p, 3.3r, 1.1s, 35.8 3p% in 25.9 mpg. Nice spacer off the bench.
They might not even stop there. Iowa State's Caleb Grill is visiting West Virginia too (9.5p, 4.0r, 1.2s, 36.8 3p%).

But yeah, Edwards was one of those Syracuse guys who always played well whenever I watched them and he seems like a good kid. Glad to see him out of that dump.
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and @ elmcityboy - I always thought Edwards was good productive player myself. Mintz is a good player too, even though he is at the start of this 45 page thread with his face slap of Doug Edert which to this day that whole fight/bruhaha makes me laugh out loud.

It's not the players on Syracuse who draw our ire or coach Adrian Autry, who seems like a great guy, but I think it's their fanbase and Jim Boeheim. I don't mind Boeheim since he is a good friend of Calhoun, but that fanbase is, ugh. I like that they are passionate, which is great, but some of the stuff they say and their attitude is beyond cringe.
 
storrsroars said:
Isn't Edwards Dutch and here on a student visa?

With the recent Sunoco/Sanogo deal, I'm lost on what the rules on regarding foreign visa holders earning $ via NIL.
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I believe that the current workaround is for the business dealings to be done outside of the USA, which is why Sanogo's video was filmed in the Bahamas. It does probably make it more difficult for local businesses to do it though.
 
seeya27 said:
Dave has ensured that Cavanaugh and Penders remain in the stable. That's a big deal.

Between Cavanaugh/Penders/Mora/Hurley and Geno, we legitimately have some of the Top 5-15 coaches in their respective sports.

Do any other schools have that comparable stable of coaches across that many sports?
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I am totally all in on Dave Benedict. He’s done an awesome job and will help elevate our football program along with Jim Mora of course!!
 
gsmooth said:
and @ elmcityboy - I always thought Edwards was good productive player myself. Mintz is a good player too, even though he is at the start of this 45 page thread with his face slap of Doug Edert which to this day that whole fight/bruhaha makes me laugh out loud.

It's not the players on Syracuse who draw our ire or coach Adrian Autry, who seems like a great guy, but I think it's their fanbase and Jim Boeheim. I don't mind Boeheim since he is a good friend of Calhoun, but that fanbase is, ugh. I like that they are passionate, which is great, but some of the stuff they say and their attitude is beyond cringe.
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If you read their board, you'd also think that Syracuse is part of the ivy league rather than being a perfectly fine (average) institution of higher learning. In the real world, I'd never presume that a person is smarter because they went to Syracuse, UConn, UMass, Penn State..... They're all perfectly fine schools with super smart to super average graduates.
 
gsmooth said:
and @ elmcityboy - I always thought Edwards was good productive player myself. Mintz is a good player too, even though he is at the start of this 45 page thread with his face slap of Doug Edert which to this day that whole fight/bruhaha makes me laugh out loud.

It's not the players on Syracuse who draw our ire or coach Adrian Autry, who seems like a great guy, but I think it's their fanbase and Jim Boeheim. I don't mind Boeheim since he is a good friend of Calhoun, but that fanbase is, ugh. I like that they are passionate, which is great, but some of the stuff they say and their attitude is beyond cringe.
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Spot on about their PeeCee like fan base. It’s not all of their fans, just the few envious childlike ones. Seems not to be the case with other current or past BE schools. Funny how they are all watching us when we lose and seem to disappear when we win :)
 
Hey Adrien! said:
Not the most glowing exit interview from Jesse Edwards, one of Syracuse best players this decade:

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What point is he trying to make here? That cuse isn’t all in on NIL? The way it’s worded is confusing me a bit
 
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