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Post by orangedw on Feb 4, 2024 10:28:42 GMT -5
So in thinking about how weird it is to get blown out so many times, the 1998-99 team came to mind.
I always remember that team for weirdly getting “blown out” often. It was something we’d never seen before or for a very long time after at Syracuse.
i just looked up what the “blowouts” were that year. Lost by 14 to WVU. Lost by 16 to Seton Hall. Lost by 15 to Villanova. Lost by 13 to Miami. Lost by 24 to UCLA. Lost by 12 and 21 to UConn.
That was a BAD season at the time(probably the second worst SU team of my childhood) and we’d never seen anything like that with so many “blowouts”.
Also, that team spent the entire season in the top 25 until the final 2 weeks of the polls where we dropped out. Team won 21 games, made the tournament, and beat Michigan, Indiana, and #1 UConn all by double digits. We would kill for a season like that at this point.
Losing by 15 or so instead of 25-30…..46. Beating some good teams, being ranked, and making the dance? Seems like a dream at this point. This really sucks.
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Post by floridafan on Feb 4, 2024 10:42:08 GMT -5
So in thinking about how weird it is to get blown out so many times, the 1998-99 team came to mind. I always remember that team for weirdly getting “blown out” often. It was something we’d never seen before or for a very long time after at Syracuse. i just looked up what the “blowouts” were that year. Lost by 14 to WVU. Lost by 16 to Seton Hall. Lost by 15 to Villanova. Lost by 13 to Miami. Lost by 24 to UCLA. Lost by 12 and 21 to UConn. That was a BAD season at the time(probably the second worst SU team of my childhood) and we’d never seen anything like that with so many “blowouts”. Also, that team spent the entire season in the top 25 until the final 2 weeks of the polls where we dropped out. Team won 21 games, made the tournament, and beat Michigan, Indiana, and #1 UConn all by double digits. We would kill for a season like that at this point. Losing by 15 or so instead of 25-30…..46. Beating some good teams, being ranked, and making the dance? Seems like a dream at this point. This really sucks. Its depressing to see. All i want is to maintain top 25 for the majority of the season and not be a bubble team for the entire season. Surely thats not too much to ask for a team like SU? If we are gonna keep sucking id rather start spending some of the BB money on FB to try and make the P2
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Post by orangedw on Feb 4, 2024 10:47:49 GMT -5
So in thinking about how weird it is to get blown out so many times, the 1998-99 team came to mind. I always remember that team for weirdly getting “blown out” often. It was something we’d never seen before or for a very long time after at Syracuse. i just looked up what the “blowouts” were that year. Lost by 14 to WVU. Lost by 16 to Seton Hall. Lost by 15 to Villanova. Lost by 13 to Miami. Lost by 24 to UCLA. Lost by 12 and 21 to UConn. That was a BAD season at the time(probably the second worst SU team of my childhood) and we’d never seen anything like that with so many “blowouts”. Also, that team spent the entire season in the top 25 until the final 2 weeks of the polls where we dropped out. Team won 21 games, made the tournament, and beat Michigan, Indiana, and #1 UConn all by double digits. We would kill for a season like that at this point. Losing by 15 or so instead of 25-30…..46. Beating some good teams, being ranked, and making the dance? Seems like a dream at this point. This really sucks. Its depressing to see. All i want is to maintain top 25 for the majority of the season and not be a bubble team for the entire season. Surely thats not too much to ask for a team like SU? If we are gonna keep sucking id rather start spending some of the BB money on FB to try and make the P2 Yeah, and the football reasons/excuses don’t fly in hoops. It’s not all the big state schools and big southern schools with 50,000 students and lunatic rich boosters in the top 25 in hoops. Friggin UConn is number 1. Marquette, Creighton, New Mexico, Utah State, Florida Atlantic, Dayton, and BYU are all ranked. There is zero reason for this program to be as bad as it’s been in the 2020’s. With Red having a full season to lay the groundwork and plan for his first full offseason…..I hope he retools this roster in a major way. All JB remnants out, all team cancers out, all zone recruits out, etc.
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Post by day2 on Feb 5, 2024 18:49:26 GMT -5
So in thinking about how weird it is to get blown out so many times, the 1998-99 team came to mind. I always remember that team for weirdly getting “blown out” often. It was something we’d never seen before or for a very long time after at Syracuse. i just looked up what the “blowouts” were that year. Lost by 14 to WVU. Lost by 16 to Seton Hall. Lost by 15 to Villanova. Lost by 13 to Miami. Lost by 24 to UCLA. Lost by 12 and 21 to UConn. That was a BAD season at the time(probably the second worst SU team of my childhood) and we’d never seen anything like that with so many “blowouts”. Also, that team spent the entire season in the top 25 until the final 2 weeks of the polls where we dropped out. Team won 21 games, made the tournament, and beat Michigan, Indiana, and #1 UConn all by double digits. We would kill for a season like that at this point. Losing by 15 or so instead of 25-30…..46. Beating some good teams, being ranked, and making the dance? Seems like a dream at this point. This really sucks. I was at that UCLA game. That home-and-home was part of the Jason Hart deal. And Pauley Pavilion is a dump.
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Post by orangedw on Feb 5, 2024 19:06:32 GMT -5
So in thinking about how weird it is to get blown out so many times, the 1998-99 team came to mind. I always remember that team for weirdly getting “blown out” often. It was something we’d never seen before or for a very long time after at Syracuse. i just looked up what the “blowouts” were that year. Lost by 14 to WVU. Lost by 16 to Seton Hall. Lost by 15 to Villanova. Lost by 13 to Miami. Lost by 24 to UCLA. Lost by 12 and 21 to UConn. That was a BAD season at the time(probably the second worst SU team of my childhood) and we’d never seen anything like that with so many “blowouts”. Also, that team spent the entire season in the top 25 until the final 2 weeks of the polls where we dropped out. Team won 21 games, made the tournament, and beat Michigan, Indiana, and #1 UConn all by double digits. We would kill for a season like that at this point. Losing by 15 or so instead of 25-30…..46. Beating some good teams, being ranked, and making the dance? Seems like a dream at this point. This really sucks. I was at that UCLA game. That home-and-home was part of the Jason Hart deal. And Pauley Pavilion is a dump. My memory is that Baron Davis and Earl Watson were just in another league from Hart and Griff, and stud freshman JaRon Rush killed us. At least we beat them at home the next year. Haven’t played them since!
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Post by Ghost on Feb 13, 2024 22:08:49 GMT -5
Kind of wild to think that this was our first Top 10 win in 5 years or so. Used to not seem like such a massive event. Anyway, I'll take it all the same - hopefully this is a step to being our normal again.
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Post by floridafan on Feb 13, 2024 22:46:06 GMT -5
Kind of wild to think that this was our first Top 10 win in 5 years or so. Used to not seem like such a massive event. Anyway, I'll take it all the same - hopefully this is a step to being our normal again. I look at it as exorcising the demons that have plagued our team the last 5 years or so. In a way I consider Autry and Coach Btown to be coaching twins in a sense. Assistant experience but nothing in the HC ranks, there will be mistakes, there will be a learning curve. But the potential is there. There will 100 percent be a moment in a FB game next season tnay we will all scream and say FB sucks. Just like we say Autry is bad at times. But I believe that if we give these two coaches money and Patience SU will be able to reclaim its glory
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Post by orangedw on Feb 13, 2024 22:55:15 GMT -5
Kind of wild to think that this was our first Top 10 win in 5 years or so. Used to not seem like such a massive every . Anyway, I'll take it all the same - hopefully this is a step to being our normal again. At the time we thought those Gillon, Lydon, Battle, Hughes teams were bad. Teams that were on the bubble. But we beat Duke several times in those years, beat Virginia. I think Gillon’s year we beat 3 top 10 teams. It’s really amazing how bad things got. Nowhere close to the bubble and beat nobody good, ever. This was just an enormous win for the program. Did not see it coming but am absolutely thrilled it happened.
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