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[QUOTE="cto, post: 2545270, member: 412"]
JB's relationship with USA Basketball and Coach K has been tremendously beneficial to him and to SU basketball.

Coach K very publicly said he would not coach the team through the 2012 and 2016 Olympics unless JB were his top assistant.   And Coach K  was very outspoken in his defense of JB and Syracuse during the NCAA mess three years ago ... which was picked up by all the respected  tv talking heads who pretty much echoed what Coach K said.  This was incredibly helpful to us in the court of public opinion because of the respect accorded to Coach K.

It is very prestigious to be associated with  USA basketball .. especially over a 10-year period that brought the program back into international prominence after the disaster of 2004.   Aside from the a..holes who run the NCAA who had their own agenda (wanting to look "tough" against a name program),  people in the know really appreciated JB's contribution.   (I was at all three Olympics with USA basketball, so I saw it firsthand).

And, not coincidentally,  we would not have had Mike (Silent G)  here were it not for Coach K.
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