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[QUOTE="pokercuse08, post: 4598879, member: 6535"]
That's because most of the national media don't know the real Jim Boeheim. Ask anyone who ever covered him locally and they'll tell you he was a total jerk and a pain in the ass to cover, but ask them how he treated the national media and they'll tell you he was a total darling for them.

The program would have benefitted tremendously from a big send off. I mean, for starters, they'd have sold 10 to 15,000 more seats for the final game. Shoot, probably could have put the court at the 50-yardline and opened the whole thing up. They'd have gotten a couple days of great press, rounds of farewell interviews on national media for Boeheim, and others from all the living legends of 'Cuse basketball. The program would have been talked about positively during March Madness with highlight reels and all that.

Instead they got pretty much the opposite of all that. The national media can't imagine Boeheim saying no to all of that, and they don't realize what an ass he can be, so they assume the school did it to him for no logical reason. But if you know what an ass he is, and know that the curmudgeon thing isn't some act, then you realize that he's exactly the type to passive-aggressively say no to all that to spite the school for forcing him out.
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