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[QUOTE="Zelda Zonk, post: 3749931, member: 966"]
With all the media, social media, and various stimuli and experiences we now have, ’history’ means less and less. As like as he has his name on the Carrier Dome court and in-game commentators need to fill air space with references to him, the legacy will live on in some form. But, think about our ‘legacy’ in the Big East. It isn’t very significant now.

Time passes, things change, and the ‘kids’ have very little capacity for/interest in ‘what was.’ If we get someone good, and get some good recruits and reclaim some glory, a lot of his legacy will be lost to the ‘what if’ speculation... What if we had made a change sooner? What if he was overrated all along? If we don’t, and languish or suffer more, it’ll be the type of what if he compromised us for too like and we won’t recover. Unfortunately, the favorable scenario for JB is if we don’t get better for quite some time, to give the JB loyalists enough ammo for their arguments.

The argument will be different, depending on whether you’re an SU fan or not. One national championship in 40+ years isn’t enough to cement anything in a national sense, even if it makes him a lifetime hero for upstaters. JB is kinda like a collegiate Lenny Wilkins. A lot of wins over a long, long period, but perhaps not regarded as a “great.”
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