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[QUOTE="Waltdods, post: 2131888, member: 2932"]
This is certainly the version of events that looks best for Boeheim.  I confess to finding it extremely hard to believe that a guy who has waited for 20 years would give up a year before he was going to get what he waited for.  It seems extreeemely unlikely.

The arguments that the UW job are better have some surface plausibility, but I don't think they hold up.

UW may pay more (though I'm not sure this is true - Romar was apparently making $1.7 million, which is not astronomical for a P5 coach).  The job may have less pressure, though it is possible to overstate this, too - they just fired a coach who had the top recruit in the country lined up to come next year.  And it may be easier to succeed there than Syracuse, though I don't know what the basis for thinking that would be - Washington has had a lot of coaches, none of whom have succeeded.  Washington has been to 12 NCAA tournaments since 1953 - half of them under Romar, who they just fired.   Syracuse has been to 12 NCAA tournaments since 2001.

And the idea that the fan support Syracuse gets compares negatively to - well, anyone, let alone Washington, is nuts.  I guarantee those 6000 fans at the Dome at 11 a.m. on a Saturday at the end of a disappointing season are thousands more fans than UW would get in comparable circumstances.
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