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Yeah I've heard he just basically hates Boeheim. He's not even listed among the top 100 prospects in the draft...I don't think he's going to learn anything at the combine that a simple google search wouldn't turn up. But I guess we'll see. I'd rather his minutes go to the younger guys anyways.

Yeah, hope he can carve out a nice career for himself wherever that is, but I don't foresee him getting drafted and I'm not particularly sad to lose him.

Didn’t have a chance to mention it here, but I had heard Oshae Brissett has been telling his professors that he plans to enter the draft and it appears that’s where things are headed with him seemingly posting a goodbye on Instagram.

Yes, they absolutely can. His first two tasks will be trying to convince the young guys currently on his roster not to transfer and then to try to convince the recruits not to back out. It sounds like at minimum, he's losing 2 of his 3 best players and possibly all 3 of them plus recruits that haven't stepped foot on campus yet.

For purely selfish reasons, I hope UB hires one of the Syracuse assistants as his replacement. Tough loss for you guys but what a season you guys had.

I think it ends up being one of four guys: Damien Harris Miles Sanders Karan Higdon Devine Ozigbo I don't foresee it being a Day 1 pick.

Much like the Tyrod-Cleveland match that I discussed for months leading up to the actual trade, I feel like this equally makes sense for all the reasons you outlined. Then again, I felt the same way about a Buffalo-Cam Brate trade but it doesn't seem like that one is going to happen either.

A player laying one finger on a guy is not a hint of PI lol. If it's actually a borderline PI then yeah, it'll be challenged, but I highly doubt you'll see plays with nearly zero contact that get reversed and called a PI.

"One finger" penalties never happens unless a ref just sees a guy flop and doesn't realize it's a flop. This will fix those situations. There might be some relatively soft penalties every once in awhile but that has always been the case. Defenders have always been allowed to have some amount of contact with players. Refs aren't going to be slowing the play down to see if a guy brushes up against the WR's sleeve and call that a penalty. Those types of plays likely won't even be challenged in the first place.

Lol, come on.

It's possible to block players without laying them out. It happens on every play of an NFL game without issue.

Gore was better than both McCoy and Ivory last season.

I'm not convinced he'll be a mid-to-late pick tbh

And TE and RB and OLine depth.

I think he goes in the 2nd or 3rd at the end of the day and I would love for him to be one of our picks. I almost wonder if this is a smokescreen though because they’re literally exposing that they’re interested in him with every possible opportunity.

Nope and Edwards isn’t one next year either.

Even if SU had been on Mitchell earlier, there’s nothing you can do about UMass. They’re hiring his coach and signing his friends to play with him. Syracuse just isn’t going to offer that. Edwards might turn into something in the future but I don’t think he’ll be able to contribute next year and we pretty desperately need help at center next year.

Think next year's team might be even worse assuming Battle leaves despite his non-existent draft stock, but then again, a part of me is more interested in seeing next year's team because of the uncertainty. I was never high on this year's team once we lost Bazley and I also felt like I knew what we'd get with them. I really have no idea about next year. Assuming Battle leaves, I have no feel for what we're going to do at PG or C. If we play the freshmen, we should theoretically have the best shooting team we've had in a long time. Feels like next year might be a disaster if Carey doesn't take a gigantic leap in year 2 though...I like Goodine and Girard but I'm not sure either of them is capable of being the PG that breaks defenses down like we've been severely lacking. With Boeheim's offensive system (and I use that term loosely because there's not much to it), you really need: At least one guy that handle the ball, both pass and shoot out of ball screens, and sometimes create his own shot 1 on 1 Shooters on the wings and at least one secondary ball handler A big man that can set screens, catch the ball, and either roll to the hoop or shoot the jumpshot This season, we basically didn't have any of that. Battle's never been a gifted passer. Chukwu and Dolezaj certainly weren't much of a threat after setting screens. And Hughes and a small stretch of Boeheim were the only shooting we had. It was just never going to work. I love Chukwu and he was an absolutely incredible defender for us, but his offensive limitations on top of our unwillingness to throw him the ball even when he was completely unguarded was a huge weakness for this team. Add in the insane number of minutes that we give to guys like Brissett that bring almost nothing positive to the team and we had all the makings of a disappointing year; I'm honestly surprised we were as good as we were. I really hope that we can pull some strings between now and the beginning of next year to bring in a center and a ball-handler (though I REALLY like the looks of the Duruji kid too). Maybe just throw Carey, Goodine, and Girard to the wolves and suffer if they can't handle it and bring in a C and Duruji instead.

lol.

https://www.syracuse.com/orangebasketball/2018/09/jim_boeheim_on_buddy_elijah_hughes_oshae_brissett_and_the_start_of_practice.html

I’m pretty sure Boeheim is actually on scholarship, though I’m hoping they can convince Jim to let him walk on so we can bring in another recruit.

It's not impossible, but Vegas is pretty good at this. Over the past 9 seasons, Vegas has been off on the Bills win total by a total of 1 win. The over has won 3/9 years with one of those years being by 0.5 a game. And like I said, they're giving Buffalo like the 5th or 6th lowest Super Bowl Odds right now. Barring a miraculous draft, it will definitely be in the 5.5-6.5 range as far as the O/U goes. Anything above that would go against the Super Bowl odds.

Hmmm, just wonder why he would have withheld that when he obviously didn't mind putting the Odell thing out there despite how much flak he got for it at the time.

Did Glazer say anything about this at the time or is he just telling us in retrospect?

As long as Allen shows improvement, I don't think I'll be depressed. I just think the Bills still have a pretty long ways to go personally. I would guess Buffalo's O/U will be 5.5-6.5. As is, their Super Bowl odds are like 5th or 6th lowest in the NFL; there's no way it's going to be 8-8.5 unless they acquire like the first five picks in the draft.