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[QUOTE="pokercuse08, post: 4599494, member: 6535"]
I was told maybe a week or two ago that Boeheim had been telling his coaching friends since at least December that this was it, not explicitly, but the same way that K and Jay Wright had before they announced their retirements. Basically saying this new-fangled portal and NIL stuff has passed him by, he doesn't like it, he's not going to do all that stuff, so this may be it, etc, etc...

So I'm guessing this was known since at least then. The fact that there wasn't a Jim Boeheim Night means Jim Boeheim didn't want a Jim Boeheim Night. The fact Jim Boeheim didn't say the words "I'm retiring" or some form of that means Jim Boeheim didn't want to. The fact that Jim Boeheim didn't publicly congratulate Red and wish him well means Jim Boeheim didn't want to.

All of those facts add up to Boeheim being the reason this went down the way it did. All the talking heads who are saying he should have set the terms and gone out when he wanted to, I can't help but ask whether they have a clue what's going on at SU. Do they really think that he deserved to not participate in the transfer portal and NIL (aka not even trying to win), run out bottom of the conference teams that don't even sniff the tourney, run the program into the ground, and die as head coach at 85 or 90 or however long he lives? Just because he's stubborn enough to think that he can win that way because he's the smartest?
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