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Jim Boeheim is/was the Anti-Monty. Saves his teams' fuel for the Real Season, year after year. The one that begins in March and ends just before the Masters.

In more ways than just one. Never met Monty, but heard good things. Met Boeheim on multiple occasions, a world class jerk.

I played golf with JB in Phoenix when my son was at Syracuse (class of '01). Seemed like an OK guy. Can't say the same about Montgomery in my experience, however, on or off the course. I just know that a big difference is that one guy's teams played better in March than other guy's.

Given what the guys before and after Monty have done at Stanford, maybe making it to the tournament represents a win for this program.  Stanford has made the NCAA tournament 17 times in the history of the program (including the 1942 title before the NCAA tournament was a thing).  Montgomery has 12 of those NCAA appearances in his 18 years at Stanford.  In the 16 tournaments since Monty left to coach the Warriors, we've gone 4 times, three of those within four years of Montgomery's departure.

BC

No argument on that one.

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Jim Boeheim is/was the Anti-Monty. Saves his teams' fuel for the Real Season, year after year. The one that begins in March and ends just before the Masters.

In more ways than just one. Never met Monty, but heard good things. Met Boeheim on multiple occasions, a world class jerk.

I played golf with JB in Phoenix when my son was at Syracuse (class of '01). Seemed like an OK guy. Can't say the same about Montgomery in my experience, however, on or off the course. I just know that a big difference is that one guy's teams played better in March than other guy's.

Given what the guys before and after Monty have done at Stanford, maybe making it to the tournament represents a win for this program.  Stanford has made the NCAA tournament 17 times in the history of the program (including the 1942 title before the NCAA tournament was a thing).  Montgomery has 12 of those NCAA appearances in his 18 years at Stanford.  In the 16 tournaments since Monty left to coach the Warriors, we've gone 4 times, three of those within four years of Montgomery's departure.

BC

No argument on that one.