Now in his sixth decade of covering SU sports, Brad was sports director of WSYR radio for eight years into the early 1990s, then wrote the Orange Watch column for The Big Orange/The Juice print publication for 18 years. A Syracuse University graduate, Brad currently runs his own media consulting business in the Philadelphia suburbs. Follow him on Twitter @BradBierman.
Boeheim and all-things Greensboro, N.C. together face-to-face, we also know this evening’s game is the beginning towards the end of the road of the unmatchable Boeheim era.
Once the ACC completed its expansion by adding the final four Big East teams in 2013-14, it was inevitable the league would experiment and bring its brand and premier event to the largest media market.
It will be interesting for the upcoming season, already the fifth for the Orange playing ACC football, to see how the southern-flavored perception plays out as Babers enters his second season of rebuilding to get back to a bowl game.
As recently as the 2014-15 NCAA probation season could have had a potential five game losing streak had the ’Cuse not upset No. 9 Notre Dame in fourth-to-last game of that year.
With the trend of talented rosters now seemingly everywhere, it’s going to continue to make it challenging for ‘Cuse lax to not only make it back to the Final Four.