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Rocktheworld said:
More so makes me wonder how cheap the jerseys are
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I don't know about that. All things considered, that jersey could have been made out if chain mail and he would have found a way to get it off his body as quickly as possible.
 
CL82 said:
Someone on UConn Twitter has to make one of these up with UConn colors in a little husky in the corner. Just say that - Thank you Coach Boeheim.

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Whatever your view on Boeheim, Syracuse is complete garbage. What an awful way to kick your coach of 47 years out the door.
 
Kolumbo said:
Whatever your view on Boeheim, Syracuse is complete garbage. What an awful way to kick your coach of 47 years out the door.
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Dude, what? What the hell do you do with his results, roster, recruiting and that press conference (I gave my retirement speech last week - what?)?
 
WestHartHusk said:
Dude, what? What the hell do you do with his results, roster, recruiting and that press conference (I gave my retirement speech last week - what?)?
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Absolutely. It takes 2 to tango. If JB was that awful down the stretch, that's on SU for keeping him well past his expiration date.
 
WestHartHusk said:
Dude, what? What the hell do you do with his results, roster, recruiting and that press conference (I gave my retirement speech last week - what?)?
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Are you saying that after he says that everybody was too dumb to figure out that he gave his retirement speech last week, he shouldn't be given job like K and Brey?

They could have at least announced his designation as Head Coach Emeritus.
 
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Boeheim lost the chance to exit gracefully when he said he was retiring years ago and them reneged. He ended as a cranky old man who the game had long passed by. Syracuse will be a worse version of Indiana post-Knight. Syracuse is just not an attractive locale for recruits. If the program was still good, kids might overlook it.
 
Kolumbo said:
Whatever your view on Boeheim, Syracuse is complete garbage. What an awful way to kick your coach of 47 years out the door.
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I dunno. His record the past several years is really not good. Playing only a 2-3 zone defense these days is (imo) simply foolish, but he refused to adapt to how the game has evolved. The miracle run to the FF probably only delayed the inevitable, and let’s face it, he was too stubborn to walk away gracefully and on his terms. Is SU supposed to wait around while 1) JB’s successors came and went because they don’t want to wait forever, 2) the product on the court is sub-par, and 3) the fan base begins to grumble about the state of the program or even worse, starts to drift away?
All things must come to an end, and today is JB’s end.
 
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What a sad ending.
 

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Classof87 said:
I dunno. His record the past several years is really not good. Playing only a 2-3 zone defense these days is (imo) simply foolish, but he refused to adapt to how the game has evolved. The miracle run to the FF probably only delayed the inevitable, and let’s face it, he was too stubborn to walk away gracefully and on his terms. Is SU supposed to wait around while 1) JB’s successors came and went because they don’t want to wait forever, 2) the product on the court is sub-par, and 3) the fan base begins to grumble about the state of the program or even worse, starts to drift away?
All things must come to an end, and today is JB’s end.
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Some good points. People can criticize and loathe both Boeheim and SU but the entire situation is a complete indictment of SU. Unless one believes JB has some super-powers which allowed him to single-handedly hold an entire institution hostage. SU publicly fired its head coach of 47 years minutes after his final game. What a disaster and completely classless.
 
Kolumbo said:
Some good points. People can criticize and loathe both Boeheim and SU but the entire situation is a complete indictment of SU. Unless one believes JB has some super-powers which allowed him to single-handedly hold an entire institution hostage. SU publicly fired its head coach of 47 years minutes after his final game. What a disaster and completely classless.
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Maybe not a super-power, but don’t underestimate the power a coach can have over a university when the coach is still beloved by the boosters that donate the $ every year. It may be an unfair comparison (and if it is, my apologies), but remember the power Joe Paterno wielded at Penn State? That entire situation did not exactly end well either.
 
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Classof87 said:
Maybe not a super-power, but don’t underestimate the power a coach can have over a university when the coach is still beloved by the boosters that donate the $ every year. It may be an unfair comparison (and if it is, my apologies), but remember the power Joe Paterno wielded at Penn State? That entire situation did not exactly end well either.
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That's on SU and it's boosters, and of course it's also on Penn State.
 
Kolumbo said:
That's on SU and it's boosters, and of course it's also on Penn State.
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But it’s not on the coach? You don’t think these guys knew the power they had? Please…
 
Classof87 said:
But it’s not on the coach? You don’t think these guys knew the power they had? Please…
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Of course they know how much power they have. Are you saying if you employed a guy for 47 years, you are going to blame him for making you and your company look like dogsheet? Please. Wake up and smell the coffee Mrs. Bueller.
 
WhereistheDove? said:
I mean in fairness, it was starting to feel like Boeheim’s exit plan was “when I die, autry can take over”. His ego kind of forced their hand.
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I don't know the details but it could be likely that SU wanted to handle it much differently (I would hope) but JB was too stubborn. I just think for an institution like SU, it should have been able to handle it much better, even if only for the sake of its own appearance. There it is in the ACC stinking up the joint and now gets all this negative pub. Good for them.
 
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UCTitleTown said:
Boeheim lost the chance to exit gracefully when he said he was retiring years ago and them reneged. He ended as a cranky old man who the game had long passed by. Syracuse will be a worse version of Indiana post-Knight. Syracuse is just not an attractive locale for recruits. If the program was still good, kids might overlook it.
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Syracuse is a dead mill town in frigid central New York state that is further from NYC than P6 schools UConn, Villanova, PC, Seton Hall, St. Johns, Rutgers, Maryland, Penn State and BCU, and is about the same distance from NYC as Georgetown.

I think one of the reasons that Syracuse let Boeheim hang around so long is that they know he will be very hard to replace.
 
Kolumbo said:
Of course they know how much power they have. Are you saying if you employed a guy for 47 years, you are going to blame him for making you and your company look like dogsheet? Please. Wake up and smell the coffee Mrs. Bueller.
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Am I going to blame the coach if his program produces mediocre (and that is being generous) results for several years in a row? Is that really your question? Ok…. YES, of course I am going to blame the coach!!! Who would you blame? The equipment manager? Regardless of whether he coached there 5 years or 50, if he can’t do the job any more, then changes need to be made. JB went back on his commitments to hand over the reins more than once, and the school probably realized he was never going to leave and never going to change. There’s loyalty and there’s blind loyalty. SU wasn’t blind.
 
Classof87 said:
Am I going to blame the coach if his program produces mediocre (and that is being generous) results for several years in a row? Is that really your question? Ok…. YES, of course I am going to blame the coach!!! Who would you blame? The equipment manager? Regardless of whether he coached there 5 years or 50, if he can’t do the job any more, then changes need to be made. JB went back on his commitments to hand over the reins more than once, and the school probably realized he was never going to leave and never going to change. There’s loyalty and there’s blind loyalty. SU wasn’t blind.
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I really have no idea who what or why you are debating at this point. The coach is entirely responsible for the performance of the team. The school is entirely responsible for employing the coach and for how long. I said SU is garbage for the way it handled the termination of its legendary coach of 47 years. The rest of the stuff you are blathering on about is your own making. Boeheim and SU both suck but that wasn't what my post was about.
 
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