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[QUOTE="Shrmdougluvr, post: 4140270, member: 396"]
The athletic department of a high major division 1 university is a big business, that brings in about $100 mil a year, and spends almost as much.  At Syracuse, Jim Boeheim is, and has been, the most important employee of that business for going on 35 to 40 years.  He's an alumnus.  He's lived locally for 50+ years.  I'd venture to guess he is friends or at least friendly with every major athletic department booster, if not University booster.  He's a major cog in the University's relationship with Nike.  He probably has a relationship with every prominent, sports loving person, in central NY.

An AD doesnt just fire that person.   Unless, all those people that control the purse strings, give their blessing.

At best, Wildhack should be doing what he can to encourage Boeheim that now is as a good a time as any to move on.  All of his children will have their college degrees by he end of the year.  The sanctions are long gone.  His two closest peers in the conference have or are moving on.  There's nothing left to win, and we aren't positioned to do any winning in the immediate future anyway.  The time to walk away was really five years ago.  But now's a pretty good time too.
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