JB on Dave Gavitt

[orangedave]

"I think there would be no Jim Boeheim, Jim Calhoun, no Syracuse winning a national championship ... Dave Gavitt is the only guy that could have put together the Big East," Boeheim said. "If we could have just stayed basketball, we could have had the greatest basketball league ever, forever. But unfortunately it doesn't work that way.

"He made us all, and he did it in a way that never hurt anybody's feelings ever, and was respected by every side. He's the greatest man I've ever known, and we owe everything to him. Everything."