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Pat Forde Speaks

His column today, Pat forde grudgingly gave Syracuse some respect in, he did. Who the hell says dotage anyway?

http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/columns/story?columnist=forde_pat&id=4838196 (sorry- can't get my link button to work).

Scheduled to participate in an online chat at 3pm, Forde is. Nice if a few of us could pay him a visit-, it would be.

Syracuse (16).

Why we used to care: The Orange won 28 games last season, earned a No. 3 NCAA tournament seed and played one of the great games in college basketball history, the six-overtime extravaganza with Connecticut in the Big East tournament.

Why we stopped caring: Cuse lost its top three scorers (Jonny Flynn, Eric Devendorf and Paul Harris), leading rebounder (Harris) and top distributor (Flynn) from that team. The Orange were picked sixth in the Big East preseason poll.

Why we care now: With revelatory transfer Wesley Johnson leading the way, Syracuse is 18-1 and ranked fifth nationally. Cuse is enjoying addition by subtraction, with some players more amenable to coaching than last season. Jim Boeheim isn't grouching off into his dotage just yet.

Update:

dot·age : a state or period of senile decay marked by decline of mental poise and alertness

Uh oh. As flatering as I thought they were- maybe his comments weren't quite. I think not, you want to go down this road Pat.