My feelings toward JB have changed because I don't believe we're getting his best anymore, and he doesn't have the energy to change that.
Somewhere along the way he stopped working toward trying to win championships and got content with thinking excellence meant being a tourney team and rolling the dice on making noise.
I don't know if he stopped believing once we got in the ACC, or after Hop and his recruiting prowess left, but somewhere along the way that switch flipped in his mind and it's been a gradual decline since.
Reframing excellence excused so much. He didn't have to have good offense if he could have good defense. He didn't have to outwork other HCs on the recruiting trail. He didn't have to build a bench.
So over the years he found ways to make it ok to work less hard, which I think realistically matched the energy level he had to offer because father time remains undefeated. To the point where now the program is simply underperforming with no legitimate pathway or plan to improve.
In the world of human resources when you're dealing with an underperforming employee managers are often asked if they think the reason why the employee is underperforming is due to a lack of skill, or a lack of will. The approaches to solving those issues are very different. A lack of skill can sometimes be salvaged with investments in training and up-skilling. A lack of will often requires a change in the staffing of the position.
So I submit to the board, when it comes to Jim Boeheim, he of over 1,000 wins, a National Championship, Hall of Fame credentials, and Olympic basketball coaching experience, are our under performance issues related to a lack of skill? Or are they related to a lack of will?
If there's any venom, the answer to that question explains it.