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[QUOTE="pfister1, post: 1685581, member: 285"]
There is no question that Boeheim's absence had an impact on us, but I don't think its obvious enough what that impact was for the committee to spend much time giving us positive credit for it.    For instance if Boeheim were there would we have won all the games we lost, probably not.    Would we have won 1, 2, 3?   Who knows.   Maybe we just put up a better fight and still lose.   It isn't truly quantifiable.

I think if we had finished stronger, it would have been easier to try to make a case that the "majority" of Syracuse's losses or losses to equal or lesser competition came during the period when JB was sidelined.  When you look at our results I think there are three games without JB that you could argue seem to be inconsistent with our results over the rest of the season Gtown, St. John's and Clemson.     With our relatively weak finish (specifically 2 losses to fellow bubble denizen Pitt and a loss to NIT bound FSU) I think it becomes easier to simply say maybe those results aren't so inconsistent and SU has simply been a mediocre and maybe inconsistent team throughout the season with and without Boeheim.

Ultimately, I don't think the argument is did his absence impact the team.   I think it is, are they a different team today with JB on the bench then they were during that stretch when they incurred some negative results such that those negative results should be overlooked.    Given our finish I am not sure that argument rings true.
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