<p>they suck this year...</p>
<p>Yeah.... and their football team is now god awful.</p>
<p>Really depressing.</p>
<p>i kno. right when i come in too. hopefully there will be a better season this year?............................guys?</p>
<p>they'll both be back on top very soon</p>
<p>thats what im hoping.</p>
<p>i think ever since my boy melo left.......</p>
<p>the bball team will need some fantastic freshmen in order to be good again. after macnamara is gone i cant think of any star players that will fill his shoes. </p>
<p>football - get ready for another rough season, but not as bad as the last. first year coaches tend to suck anyways. they only have to win two games to say that they are "twice as successful as last season"</p>
<p>lmao. daaaaaaaang.</p>
<p>Well ive got season tickets to both football and bball. As far G-mac goes, he really isnt that good, if you look at his stats he hasnt improved since he was a freshman hes actually gotten a bit worse because now he doesnt have melo or hakim warrick to draw double teams and get him open. Even this year, every once in a while he'll score 25 pts and he does just enough to to keep his scoring average up. They already have some great recruits coming too, Eric Devendorf who is a freshman on the team was a 5-star, McDonalds All-American and in the coming years they have 5-star Paul Harris who is the 15th ranked player in the country and 5- star Donte Green from the same HS as 'Melo whose game is supposedly very similar to UCONN's Rudy Gay and a bunch of other 4-star players.</p>
<p>On to football, gomestar is correct first year coaches usually do suck altho 1-10 is unusually bad. However they had pretty good recruiting class this year including Ohio's Mr.Football, RB Delone Carter who beat out the #1 ranked RB in the country for that award, 4-star WR Andrey Baskin from NJ, All NYC-metro LB Parker Canty, pensylvania 1st team all state OL Jim McKenzie among others. Once they start getting some wins, head coach George Robinson's two super bowl rings will probly have more of effect on recruits (I hope). As a former NFL defensive coordinator he knows what he's doing, in one year he took a defense that ranked around 100/117 in the country up to around 35th with players that dont fit his system. The offense was horrible but that can be attributed to A) A first year offensive coordinator B) Players that dont fit his systems and C) The fact the his player had less than a year to learn probably the most complex offensive scheme, the west coast offense. However that OC is gone, he went back to the NFL and SU got lucky and was able to hire Brian White, the former Wisconsin OC and Wisconsin is a perrenial top 25 team, mostly in the Top 10 actually and he was named assistant coach of the year a few years ago.</p>
<p>Wow, that was alot hopefully you see why I said theyll both be back soon is you had the patience to read all that.</p>
<p>told u melo was da ****.</p>
<p>carmelo was really good. Too bad he left for the NBA. Not a bad decision, but it still would have been cool to have him around. </p>
<p>I knew SU bball was in trouble this year when they barely beat my school's team. Ivy league bball is terrible, and cornell was ranked 4th out of 8th in the league. Then SU didn't demolish teams like kent state. I told my mom that SU will have a tough time in big east play. I was right! Hopefully they can come up with some late-season wins and not choke (like last year) in the NCAA tournament.</p>
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<p>KSU is no slouch this year at all.</p>
<p>I've been an SU fan for years.. this year is very depressing and frustrating. Just when you think they are starting to turn around they blow it. This is just a down year. Next year basketball should be a lot better.</p>
<p>I really could not care less about SU football.. it sucks and I've never paid attention. Basketball and Lacrosse are good enough for me.. if you are going to SU you might want to start paying attention to lacrosse, Syracuse has been one of the most dominant lacrosse teams in the nation for a long time.</p>
<p>whut is lacrosse?</p>
<p>Why are you folks surprised that Syracuse has a sucky team this year. Frankly, I am surprised that they get a good team ever! Think about it: if you are a talented basketball or football player, where would you like to play and practice: cold Syracuse or warm, sunny Miami, Florida, USC etc.? I think you get the point.</p>
<p>lol. true.</p>
<p>i'm not surprised. i'm just surprised that they had so many wins at the start of the season.</p>
<p>Nice wins over Louisville and West Virginia the past 2 days.</p>
<p>They're in the Tournament now.</p>
<p>maybe this year they wont totally blow it (kind of like last year!)</p>
<p>Last year was a good year. The season is more than the one upset loss that ended it. We were BE tournament champs last year. It was a good year despite the 1st round upset.</p>
<p>This year we still have some work to do before we're definitely in but right now it looks good.</p>