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[QUOTE="moqui, post: 145177, member: 214"]
you're going to want to pay attention to sentence structure, Zelda, because you just self-identified as a life-long child abuser.
 
that said, I get your point - but, of course, there is no proof that Bernie Fine had "a long career of abusing children;" there are only as-yet-unproven allegations. Indeed, the weight of evidence is that he had a long career of being around young men and boys [B]never[/B] touching them. Of the thousands - literally, thousands - of adolescents in close contact with Fine over the last 4+ decades, precisely four have claimed that Bernie engaged in sexually abusive activity. Of those four, one has holes in his story wide enough to march an army through, another has troubling inconsistencies and has changed his story completely at least once, and the other two have character issues. I wonder why you hold such a high standard for the proof of Bernie's coaching success, but such a low standard for tarring the man as a monster?
 
My guess is that you are playing out your own personal demons in some weird, semi-public way.
 
 
As for the original poster: I think Bernie received - and deserved - a great deal of credit for the development of Rony Seikaly (including from Rony himself), and that is how his reputation formed, but the fact of the matter is that with very rare exceptions, Syracuse has not been the landing place for blue chip centers; rather, SU has recruited under-the-radar types from Andre Hawkins to Otis Hill to Arinze Onuaku and often developed them into serviceable and sometimes very good centers. How much credit he deserves for Fab Melo's development, I don't know. But he does deserve some.
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