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Message: [QUOTE="orangedave, post: 2541956, member: 639"] Apparently you hold a grudge longer than Etan.He spoke at Hendricks Chapel about 3 weeks ago as part of a lecture series and had this to say about JB after Boeheim introduced him: [B]On Syracuse coach Jim Boeheim's role in allowing him to pursue activism: [/B] "My first week at Syracuse me and a football player, Roland Williams were on campus, right out there. There was a big rally. They were protesting the campus security being able to use pepper spray. The thought was that if they were using pepper spray the first people they'd use it on was us at the underground parties, the Schine parties. If there's a little altercation, a little argument, they would pepper spray everyone. That was the fear. ... "We were at the rally, you have everyone in the background and you have me and Roland Williams. That was on the cover of The Daily Orange. That was my first week on campus. Coach, I don't know if he remembers this, but he pulls me into his office and says, 'So you're into a lot of different stuff, huh?' He said, 'That's good. If you use your position and you speak out make sure that you can back it up.' That's all he said. Later on I got what he meant because you have to be able to defend your position. You have to articulate it. People are going to try to discredit you so you have to be able to defend your position. People have asked me if I felt any pushback at Syracuse. I didn't. I felt very supportive coaches. ..."I talk about Coach Boeheim and how he used his moment. It was when he had a big number of wins (900) and he used that moment to talk about gun reform. It was after one of the shootings and it's so terrible that there have been so many that I don't remember which one (it was Sandy Hook), [URL='http://www.syracuse.com/orangebasketball/index.ssf/2012/12/syracuse_coach_jim_boeheim_urg_1.html'][U]but he used that moment to talk about gun reform.[/U][/URL]" Did Boeheim go overboard in his comments about Roberson? Probably yes, and Etan was right to criticize him, but I think there s evidence on this board that Roberson and family have gotten over it. [/QUOTE]

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