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[QUOTE="Scooch, post: 4178741, member: 628"]
There is a thread on a Patriots board that I visit titled[I] "Has Belichick lost it?"[/I].

I'm not going out on too much of a limb to suggest that Bill Belichick has accomplished more than Jim Boeheim.  And yet that thread -- started 2 1/2 years removed from his SIXTH championship -- exists.

So yeah, JB is not alone as a legendary coach in being criticized by fans.

I think most reasonable people understand that Syracuse basketball is what it is because of Jim.  There's no reason why our hoops program isn't the equivalent of Seton Hall, or Providence, or Boston College, other than the fact that JB built it so much better.

But I also think that most reasonable people admit that we haven't been the Syracuse of yore for several years running now.  And it doesn't seem like a major turnaround to top 10-20 status is looming.

And let's be real, who still coaches at 77?  It's incredibly unusual for a transition to not have occurred by now, and that is entirely of Jim's doing.  He could have rode off gloriously into the sunset after the Final 4 in 2016, never to be critiqued again.  He didn't.
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