Now is not the time to hire Gerry McNamara as Syracuse basketball's next head coach.
I can already feel the backlash from this particular column, and that's okay. McNamara is an absolute legend within the Syracuse basketball program, helping to lead the Orange to its first and only national title in 2003.
McNamara then went on to be an assistant coach at SU for many years, and he was elevated to associate head coach under then-head coach Adrian Autry for the 2023-24 season. Over the past two campaigns as the head coach, GMac has done a remarkable job turning around Siena, a Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference ("MAAC") school located in Loudonville, N.