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[QUOTE="fanfanclubclub, post: 82929, member: 787"]
I agree.  We are all in.  Nobody cares about Colgate.  The national media is only going to be talking about the allegations.  Boeheim dodging Qs will be a national headline. A walk out will look bad.  This isn't going away, so why refuse to field questions?

We can't be trying to keep things close to the vest, we can't try to move on and focus on basketball, and the JB has already established a position that, unless JB is lying, is safe to talk about in public.  There isn't much chance of a "gotcha question" if JB is honest and can stick to his main point: he's never seen any credible evidence at all that Fine did anything and that there was no cover up.

If journalists ask questions that JB doesn't know, he can simply explain that he can't speak for others, or doesn't have any personal knowledge of certain matters.  I understand that he may not want to commit to a position on every possible detail, because then his credibility could be destroyed by something mundane and irrelevant.  But everyone watching will intuitively grow skeptical if JB ducks questions for this reason, while on the contrary, everyone would tend to cut JB some slack and hear him out if he is open, transparent, earnest, etc.  Giving a few interviews to friendly journalists might not be enough.

focusing on the Colgate dunk fest is not the thing to do right now.
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