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Message: [QUOTE="pokercuse08, post: 4599520, member: 6535"] I don't think anyone here is arguing that the perception you described does not exist with a large portion of the fanbase. What we're telling you is that the perception you described is completely wrong. Like, if you've never interacted with Jim Boeheim, and your perception of him is primarily what you see of him on ESPN, then he seems like a really nice guy and it's easy to draw the conclusion that he's just a bit of a to the local media now and then when he gets a stupid question, and that he's a kind and reasonable man who would do the right thing in this retirement situation. But almost everyone who's ever ACTUALLY been round him in real life, or who knows a bunch of people who are, is telling you who the man has been for decades. I graduated in '08, and I was in the student media. I never asked him a question and I never had him be a jerk to me directly, but I saw it go on with a lot of people and heard a lot of stories. I have also heard them from ESPN people for years about what he's like when the cameras aren't on depending on whether they're an important enough member of the media to get his time of day or even a respectful response to, "Hey coach, nice to meet you." So it's no shock to anyone who was around him the way this went down, and it's not hard to figure out how and why it went down like that and who's to blame. The perception will be what it will be. If you want to argue that the school should have bent over backwards, even more than they did the last several years, to avoid that perception... Then you can make that argument credibly. But be specific. What should they have done? How many losing seasons? How far should he have been allowed to run this into the ground, destroying his own legacy by the way? Because his success is iron-clad, but a big part of his legacy is turning Syracuse Basketball into what it is... and if it dies (at least as we know it) after he's gone, that part of his legacy is altered too. [/QUOTE]

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