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Message: [QUOTE="Forza Azzurri, post: 2201937, member: 1452"] Great post. No idea who you are but great post. Regarding the above sentence that I quoted, I would love to do a correlation analysis between the amount of success (athletic, academic, financial) that individual posters have had in life and how much they complain, especially about wanting to get rid of Boeheim and/or Desko. My hypothesis is that a good chunk of the posters who scream the loudest and longest about firing people like Desko and Boeheim, guys who have maintained a level of excellence over decades, are the ones who have zero idea how hard it is to compete, and be successful, at the highest levels over a prolonged period of time. They don't get it because they've never managed to successfully compete at any level, let alone the highest level, in any walk of life. For those of you who have coached, they remind me of the parents of Little Johnny. Little Johnny plays lacrosse, sort of. If he shows up at all, he is consistently being dropped off 45 minutes late for practice and is missing half his equipment. Cradling is still a mystery and forget about throwing and catching with the strong hand, let alone the weak one. One game day, he shows up 5 minutes before the game starts. And, after the game, Little Johnny's mother/father make a beeline for the sideline to understand why little Johnny didn't get the same run as everyone else. When they don't like the answer, ie. that Little Johnny either misses, or is late, to almost all the practices and cannot throw, catch or cradle, their next move is a barrage of email complaints about the fact that the little Johnny is not a good lacrosse player because the coaches aren't teaching him anything. They never watch lacrosse with him; they never throw the ball around with him; his stick looks like it was strung by the Mad Hatter and he barely makes it to half the practices, but they don't understand why he isn't the next Mikey Powell and they need someone to blame... [/QUOTE]

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