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Message: [QUOTE="Scooch, post: 5615682, member: 628"] I never thought it was just about JB. Rather, it was about his legion of loyal former players and the JB-connected boosters. I mean, Derrick Coleman went off the rails last season and started crap with Eddie Lampkin. Guys like him, Etan, and a few dozen others probably would have sniped at the program endlessly had Red been bypassed. Maybe it wouldn’t have mattered. Maybe a different HC would have shrugged it off and done well. But let’s not forget that the mere act of getting JB out the door was very difficult and required a deft touch. If many board members and boosters had their way, Boeheim would still be the coach right now! The guy said he’d decide when he leaves mere days before he was pushed out. And make no mistake, he was pushed out. But to do so required politics and Red was the means to that end. That’s the truth. [/QUOTE]