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OT- Jim Boeheim Hits And Kills Man

An Absolutely horrible situation for all involved. I feel for Boeheim. As much as we hate Boeheim, the basketball coach, he is still a human being who accidentally took a life. He is obviously a compassionate and caring person with all of the young lives that he has mentored. This will affect in one way or another many many innocent lives for years to come.
 
Zanzman said:
I’ve been in his shoes and wouldn’t wish it on my worst enemy
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Nearly everyone here who has commented has imagined themselves in such a situation as they posted. How else to explain why the first horrified post didn't just get dozens of Likes, but instead generated dozen of individual comments that pretty much say the same thing?

My heart goes out to you.
 
It's a terrible tragedy for all involved.

It reminded me of a situation a few years back where I ran over some piece of construction equipment that must have been dropped from a freeway overpass they were working on. I was going maybe 65 to 70 at the time, 10:30 at night. It bounced up and ruptured my gas line. The car only had enough forward motion left to barely get me off the freeway from the far left lane (no left side breakdown lane) across three other lanes. It's a miracle I made it to the right shoulder without getting rear ended. Always get as far off on the shoulder as possible. If you get out use the passenger side door if you're on the right shoulder, and stay far away from the oncoming traffic. That's what I did while I waited for the wrecker.
 
About 35-40 years ago I was going though an intersection that had eight foot high shrubs on one corner. As I approached the shrubs a bicyclist came out of the shrubs at a fast rate of speed right in front of me. Fortunately I reacted quickly and slammed the brakes on an avoided hitting him. It was surreal, it happened so quickly that I didn't even remember hitting the brakes. The human mind is amazing. It was like I skipped all the steps of processing what I saw and just acted.
 
Devland said:
The human mind is amazing. It was like I skipped all the steps of processing what I saw and just acted.
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Actually, it didn’t skip any steps. It processed everything in the blink of an eye like a super computer. Your mind does that all day every day, we are just trained to over think things. Don’t rush to judgment! Don’t make a rash decision! Make sure you really think things through! Most times you don’t need to. Read “Blink” by Malcom Gladwell.
 
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ESPN just announced that College GameDay will now broadcast from Bristol on Saturday. Wow.
 
UConnNick said:
It's a terrible tragedy for all involved.

It reminded me of a situation a few years back where I ran over some piece of construction equipment that must have been dropped from a freeway overpass they were working on. I was going maybe 65 to 70 at the time, 10:30 at night. It bounced up and ruptured my gas line. The car only had enough forward motion left to barely get me off the freeway from the far left lane (no left side breakdown lane) across three other lanes. It's a miracle I made it to the right shoulder without getting rear ended. Always get as far off on the shoulder as possible. If you get out use the passenger side door if you're on the right shoulder, and stay far away from the oncoming traffic. That's what I did while I waited for the wrecker.
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I'm amazed by some cops who pull people over and they're barely even in the shoulder. It's dangerous as hell, I remember a state trooper from my town died this way when I was a kid.
 
tduconn said:
To put it in another perspective, to convert MPH to Ft/sec, multiply MPH X 1.5. Not exact conversion, but close enough.

e.g. 60 MPH = 90 ft/sec.

Imagine running from home plate to 1st base in one second!
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Very true - the complete calculation is as follows:

60.0 (mi/hr)(5280 ft/mi)(1 hr/3600 sec) = 88.0 (ft/sec) exactly (add as many zeros to the result as you care to write). In the time it takes to snap your fingers, you travel 88 ft at that speed. I always "share" this with my students and I keep reminding myself (and the wife unit) to slow down and watch out for other cars and people. Even if it is not your fault, you really don't want to kill another person (or even an animal if you can safely avoid it).
 
Thanks to the majority of UCONN fans keeping it classy and understanding the human aspect of what happened. A few made insensitive comments that were inappropriate but, at the end of the day...we know UCONN and Syracuse pretty much hate each other BUT that some things override that hatred. This is one of those situations and prayers go out to the family of the deceased, to Boeheim and his family and for all involved.
 
ESPN cancelled Gameday at Syracuse. I think that is the right move. I wonder if JB coaches. I think as long as he can focus, he will. I wonder how he is holding up.
 
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uconnell said:
I watched Boeheim sob on ESPN this morning. He is really torn up over this. Said he had contacted the family and will help them. I feel for Boeheim and the family of the man he hit.
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Yeah, love to hate the guy as a coach, but I feel for him as a human being. Has to be tough to have killed someone, even though it was unavoidable. It's great that he's stepping up to help the family.
 
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superjohn said:
He looked drained and devastated yesterday. This really humanizes him, hard to believe some people in this thread made jokes.
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I guess. I think it is more the forum than anything else. For most part people have sympathized with him and family of the victim. It's just so random and tragic. It's easy enough to envision yourself either in Boeheim's shoes or the victim's.
 
I am one of those rare and unusual UConn fans who never minded Jim B. The fans I can't stand and usually the same goes for the players. But I've always kinda liked Jim's kind of deadpan, straightforward way of talking, kind of sarcastic and a little grumpy, sometimes struck me as a little neurotic but the kinda older guy I'd like to be friends with and go for advice and to hear it as it is. Any way I read something like this and feel bad for the guy. I would bet he is a decent human and he must be struggling a great deal with this. Aside from 4 or 5 horrible people I've had the misfortune of running into in my life I would not wish this on any other of my worst enemies.

Poor Jim.
 
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superjohn said:
He looked drained and devastated yesterday. This really humanizes him, hard to believe some people in this thread made jokes.
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First and foremost, after the shock, I am sure sympathy and empathy are the very first emotions people have for Jim.

Then, Boneyardin' kicks in for some of us. I had a post deleted so imagine my devastation in realizing how much of an a**h*** I am. My moms didn't raise me this way. If only my dad didn't split when I was two. Dammit!!
 
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Dove said:
First and foremost, after the shock, I am sure sympathy and empathy are the very first emotions people have for Jim.

Then, Boneyardin' kicks in for some of us. I had a post deleted so imagine my devastation in realizing how much of an a**h*** I am. My moms didn't raise this way. If only my dad didn't split when I was two. Dammit!!
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Lol, testify brother.

I was talking about how sad this was at home and then drifted into a litany of how dirty the Cuse program is. My son's listened and then said, we know dad, you've told us all that before... a lot of times.

Again, feeling sorry for Boeheim about this event and disliking the 'cuse program, players and fans are two different but entirely compatible things.
 
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I dislike everything about Cuse. Fans players and Boeheim but I can’t help feeling sorry for him and the victims family.
 
uconnell said:
I dislike everything about Cuse. Fans players and Boeheim but I can’t help feeling sorry for him and the victims family.
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Yeah, I feel a hell of a lot more sorry for the victim's family than I do Boeheim. It sucks for him, but he'll recover from this. The victim and his family , not so much.
 
intlzncster said:
Yeah, I feel a hell of a lot more sorry for the victim's family than I do Boeheim. It sucks for him, but he'll recover from this. The victim and his family , not so much.
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Rest in Peace Jorge Jimenez.
 
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To think that this could happen to anyone at anytime....hit or be hit....count your blessings....very sad
 
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