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You almost never hear a college coach
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admit this, but Adrien Autry
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just admitted that Syracuse and he
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himself were not ready for modern
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college basketball. This is pretty
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insane because even if those are the
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concerns behind the scenes, you almost
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never admit that publicly, but Syracuse
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has missed the NCAA tournament five
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straight years. They're not going to
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make it this year unless they make a
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miraculous run to win the ACC
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tournament. That is not going to happen.
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Five straight years for a prestigious
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program missing the NCAA tournament is a
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problem. And the last two years under
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Jim Beaheim, the same thing happened.
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The transition has not been pretty in
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Syracuse. And so the question has been,
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well, what's what's the problem here? Is
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that simply that Adrien Autry was in
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over his head when he took over the job?
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Not a great head coach. Is it that
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Syracuse has not invested enough money
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into the NIL resources? Is it that they
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don't know the transfer portal? What
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exactly is it? Because I was just on
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campus a couple of weeks ago for the
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North Carolina game at the dome. And I
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saw 23,000 people inside a college
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basketball arena for a team that was
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going to go five straight years without
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a tournament birth and was going to
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finish the season more than likely with
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a losing record. 23,000 still showed up.
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So I said, "What's broken here?" And
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Adrien Autry actually admitted after
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senior night and an overtime loss to
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Pit. By the way, Pit is one of the only
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teams in the ACC that's been worse than
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Syracuse and Syracuse lost to them at
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home in overtime in their final regular
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season game. Autry actually admitted
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that the program wasn't ready for NIL,
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for the portal, for metrics, for
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analytics, for the new world.
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And because there's been a lot of
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around, you know, the Syracuse program
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for Adrien Autry to be fired and because
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the Barbarians are storming the gate and
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they want they want a new head coach,
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understandably so. I think a lot of
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people missed the fact that there was
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about a 60-second clip in that post game
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where I I was like, "Whoa,
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wow. Who admits that?" And it was like
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Autry was the internal monologue of AD
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John Wildack himself and probably Jim
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Beaheim as well. Well, we weren't ready
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for that. And kind of this idea that as
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the world turned dramatically,
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they were left wondering how it slipped
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out from under their feet. And I was I
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was floored. I really was. I was floored
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that he admitted this. But he even said
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in it about those new dynamics,
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I probably should have looked into that
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harder when he took the job. And he said
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that the way that business used to be
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done where they would recruit and
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develop players is not the way it's done
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anymore. The world has changed. And he
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also said essentially quote and it
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doesn't change back quickly. That this
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is not a quick fix. Now, Syracuse upped
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three times from last year by 3x to get
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to $8 million this season for its
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basketball NIL money and it's its
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Well, if tripling your money as an
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another non-ournament season, a
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doubledigit seed in the ACC tournament
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and a year where you are sub 500 in
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conference and overall,
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what does that say about how far you've
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got to go? Is that just the coach? Is
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that just the coach? That was a real
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eyeopener to me to have somebody
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actually admit it. And this doesn't make
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me proud to say because I'm an alum. I
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want to see that program be be good. I
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remember the good old days of the Big
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East. But I think it was indicative of a
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where the world changed too quickly. And
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it's probably a metaphor for a lot of
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people in general that just look around
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society and say things are just going
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too haywire, too crazy. And it it's
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changed so quickly. I didn't even
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notice, you know, what the old stuff
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that the old stuff was breaking apart. I
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thought I thought I figured it out. And
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and then as soon as I had my my arms
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around something, there was another
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problem. You know, you can never quite
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catch it. I think a lot of people feel
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that way in modern society about a lot
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I think Adrian Autry actually verbalized
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things that a lot of programs ads that
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had done things coaches a certain way
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we're like holy crap and it's and I
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think it's it's really the underbelly of
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why Jay Wright and Coach K and Roy
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Williams and Jim Beheim all left cuz
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they saw this as as something wild like
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an electric cord that just was spitting
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sparks and they said we we don't we
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and we might as well just get out. Which
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I give credit to the the Tom Isos of the
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world, the Caliparis of the world, the
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Bill Selves of the world who have one
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foot stuck in the old and now one foot
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stuck in the new. They have charged
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ahead, but it is not easy. It is not
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easy. And Audrey looked like a deer in
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headlights last night, like longingly
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I misjudged this. And wow, how often do
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you get somebody that actually
