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Message: [QUOTE="mikekan14, post: 232441, member: 1619"] I'm not against Boeheim. I'm not leading a donor campaign to buy out his contract. I'm really just trying to show the contrarian side of the argument to those [denialist] on this site that find Boeheim's records/accomplishments unimpeachable. An objective analysis shows that Boeheim has underachieved against his peers. Or maybe put another way, he's overachieved in the regular season with less talent only regresses to the mean during the Tournament. You could look at ratio of Final Fours appearances to total wins, ratio of Tournament wins to total wins, and several other metrics in comparison to his peers (K, Williams, Izzo, Pitino, etc.) and decide for yourself. Of course, numbers can't tell the whole story. Boeheim deserves a ton of credit. I'm not calling for his head. I was only trying to say that Boeheim was not making adjustments and this is perhaps because he's too stubborn. There have been plenty of coaches that have been unwilling to change (Paterno, Bowden, Bob Knight, etc.). Just suggesting that Boeheim's success gives him self-imposed immunity for adaptation. Against the shortest team in the Tournament, Cuse out rebounded UNCA by 1 at the half. After "adjustments," Cuse out rebounded UNCA by 1 in the 2nd half. If you're ever on the football side, it's the exact same thing as when we complain about Hackett calling the same "boot with TE to the flats" play. Healthy criticism is ok. Skepticism is not necessarily a precursor to a mutiny. This is the link to the aforementioned ESPN the Mag article (You'll need insider)... [url]http://insider.espn.go.com/mens-college-basketball/story/_/id/7648671/2012-ncaa-tournament-upset-proofing-syracuse-orange-espn-magazine[/url] Or I'll copy and paste if someone asks me to, just didn't want to include it in this already long post [/QUOTE]

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