In taking his unranked team to the #1 spot in the polls (and recording his 32nd 20-win season in the process), Jim Boeheim was voted the AP Coach of the Year. Boeheim worked wonders with a team that lost its top three scorers from the previous season…that said, it remains a bitter disappointment not to [...]

All we can say is that it will be a few weeks, or, more likely, months, before 4th & Forever can truly look forward to next season without lamenting about what 2010 coulda (shoulda) been. This Syracuse team was special. They have earned a sacred place on the mantle above the Orange Nation’s heart. Yes, [...]

This article breaks it down quite nicely…some guys get away with tampering with the fabric of our dimension, some guys do not. Some guys can double dribble through the time-space continuum, others will assuredly get whistled.

Somehow, ESPN’s Joe Lunardi, aka Joey Brackets, has created a pseudo-science called “Bracketology” whose logarithms and cryptic formulas are intended to derive not just the NCAA field of 64, but also each team’s seed and where they’ll be shipped. Bracketology is in effect from the preseason straight through the end of Championship Week. Admittedly, though [...]

Doug Gottlieb: “You’ve got to at some point hold Jim Boeheim accountable” Circa February 2009.
First of all, we admit, freely, that Syracuse has been on the wrong end of some disastrous, embarrassing losses (Richmond and Vermont certainly come to mind). There is no debating this fact. What program hasn’t, however? Has Syracuse had more monumental [...]

Not to be out done by Coach Murphy’s “Shut it Down”…check out Jake Ober’s hip hop tribute to the 315 and the 2-3, “Let’s Go!”
. Rumor has it he’s a student at SU. We didn’t even have email when 4th & Forever went to school. Wow.

Syracuse Assistant Coach Rob Murphy laying down the soundtrack for this 2009/2010 Syracuse squad and their run to the NCAA Championship. That line about Carrier Dome / Carry ya home is pretty much totally awesome. Now, if someone could make a video with some serious footage of this team and not simply recycle the same [...]

These old school Shaquille pics are awesome. He was so…ShaqSvelte. We just can’t recall why he seemed so much bigger than everyone else even back then. Did the whole league get huge?
Is it awkward that Dwight now wants to be the modern day Superman, and they both established that persona with the Magic?
Which former Magic [...]

While scouring the world wide web for Syracuse content, 4th & Forever came across Dave “The Sports Painter” Choate and immediately fell in love with his style…his Syracuse-heavy content was pure bonus. We love the Dr. J, the Jonny Flynn vs UCONN pieces shown here, the Jordan and even the Eddie Murray. We could do [...]

As life-long Orange(men) fans, we can quite plainly say this 2010 team is the best we’ve ever seen Syracuse put on the floor. The team that won it all in 2003 had, obviously, amazing talent and a future NBA all-everything in Melo, but this team is just that: a team. It doesn’t feel like we [...]