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[QUOTE="Shenexon, post: 3074595, member: 129"]
Thanks for the perspective. Tim's legacy includes some tragic elements including his commitment to over-leveraged properties badly in need of maintenance. Dynamic people can make poor decisions, sometimes for the wrong reasons.

He also has superb elements to his legacy and I'll prefer to remember him as the talented and brilliant kid that chose Syracuse and helped to reinvigorate the program when we really needed him.

He made bad choices at times I think but also drew the short straw at times as well. I do think that it's kind of tacky to kick a guy when he's terminally ill. There isn't any really good reason to personalize it like they did.

Tim's company generated cash flow through buying distressed properties with significant rental income. I doubt he planned to become a slum lord, but it happens. The upside always looks bigger than the downside and Tim wouldn't be alone in generating this kind of tragedy. We'll never know if he had a strategy to make good on his gamble.

Best wishes to him, faults and all. Local boy becomes local hero becomes national name becomes tragic figure. Fairytale lives don't always end gracefully...
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