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Message: [QUOTE="Zelda Zonk, post: 3685692, member: 966"] This kind of comment irks me. I understand it, but I disagree. I think it would be equally wrong to say that John Thompson or Jim Calhoun or Dean or Self are and always will be the face of Georgetown, UConn, Carolina, or Kansas. Even Wooden. Those guys represent icons in history. But you move on. To me, it’s like standing in the middle of Manhattan and saying it’s the center of the universe. That’s an emotional/nostalgic perspective, but then when you see the earth within the cosmos, it’s a sensibility that is rendered a bit silly. JB had his time. We owe him nothing except respect and well wishes... but goodwill erodes. Legacies get tarnished. And people who have a great deal of pride often don’t recognize how much damage they are doing as they try to recover from the deficits that erode those legacies. [/QUOTE]