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Message: [QUOTE="Bill Orange, post: 5377354, member: 32"] From The Athletic: “In my lifetime, he was the guy,” Jim Boeheim said Thursday. “Some people write stuff that’s opinionated, but have nothing behind it. He was opinionated about everything, but at least those opinions were rooted in something. He believed what he said, even if you disagreed with it.” For a coach with 48 career NCAA Tournament wins and five Final Fours, Boeheim carried a tough rap for parts of his Hall of Fame career. Some very good Orange teams went home too early in March, and Feinstein, never one to suffer timidity, took aim at him. He wrote at one point that Boeheim was the worst NCAA Tournament coach in college basketball. The worst. Boeheim held a grudge in the way you would expect from a coach who ran the same defense for 47 years. When the two finally hashed things out, Boeheim leveled with Feinstein, saying, “C’mon, John. I can’t be the worst.” They cleared the air and grew to be friendly later. [/QUOTE]