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[QUOTE="bozophobe, post: 2638582, member: 2589"]
Yeah. Boeheim did make a fairly emphatic statement in which he didn't (at that point in time) consider anybody to be a close friend of his who doesn't live in Lyons, New York. That may have been aimed at all the sportscasters and journalists who are always saying what great friends he is with (insert any coach's name) just because they ate together a couple of times at an Italian restaurant somewhere. In general, he clarified the difference between close friends and close professional colleagues.

And that whole era (the few years leading up to the 2003 championship) has long intrigued me. Did Boeheim himself inform Fine of the vacancy on his street, or was it someone else? Around that time, Fine had been promoted to Associate Head Coach, but the distribution of coaching duties felt off, somehow, in hindsight. Boeheim didn't elaborate on this or many other things, which is understandable given the length of his career (and then-extremely fresh controversy), and how long the book would have to be.

Regarding Andy, wasn't this a time where S.U. needed to keep up the team's overall academic performance? Not saying that's the case, and I have no clue what Andy's grades were in school. Maybe it was just a loyalty to Leo thing. The team would have had plenty of scholarship players, anyway, and Boeheim wasn't averse to adding a project player now and then.
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