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I just realized that we had a opponent message boards tab and saw this post on Syracuse's board. What a bunch of scum bags!
This post is now on syracuses blog. Just wanted to let you knowI'm just thrilled to death that they stumbled into that one championship. You don't get the chance to say "Syracuse" and "champion" in the same sentence all that often.
They weren't very good - hell, if you tried to name the last ten or fifteen champions, you'd probably forget that team all together - but they had pluck.
And with pluck and a ridiculously favorable NCAA draw, even a marginal bunch can do great things.
Well, maybe not great exactly, but good enough.
Let's be clear: major conference teams look more clueless because they have younger and younger players. But, when they do lose early, it's usually not to major conference teams. It's to teams like mid to low major teams like Vermont who have shooters to bust the zone and some experience.I wouldn't put money on Syracuse choking because it seems with each passing year teams look more and more clueless against their zone. Took a great effort from Ohio State to keep them out of 2 straight Final Fours. The increasing inability of teams to handle their zone is probably good to get to atleast the Sweet 16 every year.
I wonder what some of these coaches are doing to prepare against it. Certainly whatever Crean does doesn't work. Seems they were just as pathetic against it as in the tournament last year.
I for one can't keep one of their games on. The second Katz started hyping the excitement over the ACC move made me turn the channel. I am at the point with both Syracuse and BC in all sport where I can't even watch them on TV because they literally make me sick at first sight.
So you're saying there won't be T-shirts the first time Clemson comes to town?For all the flexing of muscles over there regarding the ACC, I'd be scratching my head at the top 25 if I didn't know any better:
AAC - 3 teams
ACC - 2 teams
I mean, they can rub Tulane and Houston in our faces if they want, but aside from the Duke games, it isn't like they have an incredibly marquee slate lined up once January rolls around. There is a lot of mediocrity in that conference.
Scot-e said:OK- I am gonna be snarky. Quse is over rated this year and will choke in the NCAAs like they do most years. When JB retires they will fad into obscurity - I see a similar path as BC. Never has there been a fan base more full of themselves over next to nothing. I hope they enjoy being a perpetual bottom dweller in the years to come. We may be in a crap conference but we are a program with energy and momentum (A NC in 2011 means we are do for another on or before 2016 -DOOMED). They are peaking right now and have some talented players but quite frankly they are still boring to watch. YAWN. PE-Toowey!!! I spit on them and their boring marginally above average program.