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[QUOTE="Zelda Zonk, post: 3298944, member: 966"]
You still seem to be discussing this as if the two options are:
- some destined-to-fail schmuck, versus
- another 10-15 years of Boeheim, where he starts signing top 20 high schoolers on the reg, and he has the energy to outcoach and out train everyone else, and the zone becomes a mystery again, and...

I never said anything about it being a home court advantage.
Never once. In 30 years.
My comments about the dome are with regard to it being appealing to a high schooler. And in that respect, I honestly think the dome was a major recruiting tool. It also put a smallish private school on the map. People knew about The Dome way before they ever paid attention to who the coach was.

Here’s the other thing... in my 45-ish years of sports fandom, with all the teams in all the sports that I’ve ‘loved,’ in not one instance was my choice of a team related to the coach. Zero times. I frankly think it’s the same with any other teenager. The coach is a bullet point factor when you grow up liking teams. There are probably a handful of coaches across all the ‘amateur’ sports that command that kind of interest/respect/adoration.

Next... in everything I read from you on the topic, you still seem to be stuck in a notion where the rest of us are trying to get JB fired Today, versus him potentially riding it out, experiencing a resurgence over the next six years and then retiring with another championship after another 15 years. Your JB is 50, and still innovating, and still impressing recruits with his Hall of Fame sash and scepter.
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