It’s never made sense to us for so many important Big East games against top teams over the years coming on such short notice, and they don’t schedule that way in the ACC.
Prior to the Syracuse loss at Villanova Saturday at the Wells Fargo Center, Orange Watch caught up with Syracuse senior associate athletic director Herm Frazier.
Come March, Orange Nation would probably love to see Philadelphia again, this time as the destination for second-third round NCAA games being played in the Wells Fargo Center, the closest location to Syracuse.
As the hands-on defensive coordinator for the past four seasons, Scott Shafer also more than stood out as the candidate to promote late in the recruiting process.
Despite the disastrous hire of Greg Robinson weeks later, there is not a whole lot of negatives when it comes to the direction and thought process behind the other coaching hires during the Gross regime.
It was the last Big East media day for Syracuse coach Jim Boeheim, and the first for new commissioner Mike Aresco, before the Orange head to the Atlantic Coast Conference next year.