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I've noticed you're very defensive of Boeheim. Let's just be realistic about what "Elite" in CBB is. It means multiple national championships. I'm sorry... but that's what it means to me. There are 15 College Basketball coaches in CBB coaching history with multiple national championships. Jimmy isn't one of them. And he's one of the longest tenured coaches of all coaches... so he's had as many or more opportunities. He's a fantastic coach. But he's not Elite. He holds himself back in too many ways.

Unless he's the one holding the team back with his stubbornness in terms of delegating playing time...

It's wrong and this is why Boeheim never reached Elite coaching status. He might be the most stubborn coach in CBB.

https://www.nbcsports.com/northwest/seahawks/report-nfl-set-announce-17-game-regular-season-schedule Yes 1st place vs. 1st place. I'd guess you're right that the last week would be a divisional opponent. The wording was just murky and sounds as though it could be a week 17. But King seems pretty definitive on the specific opponents of each team and in the case of this upcoming season we get an extra home game and it's vs. Washington.

So according to Peter King the 17th game comes against a single cross conference opponent that each team matches up with. 1st place vs 1st place and so on. We pulled Washington in Week 17

I get it. And I won't pay much attention to the regular season until the last few games and Syracuse will make another "surprising" NCAA run but come up short of the ultimate goal of a championship. It's become the norm. And next year I do expect the regular season team to be better... but who the heck cares about the Syracuse regular season anymore??? Win a darn Championship Boeheim!!!

What a bullchit copout. This has always been my issue with Boeheim: he pulls his younger players incredibly early and keeps his older players in despite often head scratching mistakes. There's this ridiculous seniority thing he has going his entire career for pretty much everyone other than 'Melo who basically forced his hand because of how great he was. This is why Boeheim is stuck where he is. He underutilizes his great players. Just ask Dion Waiters. Even at the weight he was this year Edwards should have gotten a lot more PT. And honestly now I'm actually praying Sidibe doesn't come back because you can darn well guarantee Sidibe will start over Edwards even though he probably shouldn't.

I'm sorry I'm just so friggin angry at Boeheim right now. Maybe I'm oversimplifying but what was the point differential with vs without Edwards? Having him on the court on D made a WORLD of difference!!! Isn't that the entire reason Sidibe saw so much playing time over his career??? He sure as hell wasn't a scorer.

That was a good shot. It's a shot he needs to take and make. The problem is he doesn't get the reps so it looks like an awful shot despite the fact that he was wide open. I'm sorry... we saw more awful shots tonight than that taken by every other Syracuse player not named Edwards.

How many rebounds or turnovers did he cause that weren't attributed to him in the stat sheet? Agreed. But every time Edwards was on the court the team was different. Did he? How many balls did he lose tonight? Next... how many balls did Girard, Griffin, Buddy, Dolezjai, Richmond, and Guerrier lose tonight? Jim Boeheim is a fantastic coach... but unfortunately I don't see him getting a 2nd Championship that would put him in Elite conversation ala Coach K or Roy Williams.

Edwards was the most physical guy on the floor tonight, yet Boeheim took him off in favor of the twig Dolezjai at Center. On this you are wrong. Edwards was pretty clearly the difference in the game.

I think you're trying way too hard here. If you watched the game you really can't deny the impact Edwards had on the game.

I'm legitimately livid right now at Boeheim. Taking Edwards out after the incredibly obvious impact he was having on the game is absolutely ***** ridiculous. Yes... woulda helped to make some shots... but Edwards was the obvious difference today. Boeheim you're an idiot.

There is absolutely no pinning this game on the refs. Syracuse will lose this game because of the one thing that's irritated me in my decades as a Syracuse fan: Jim Boeheim and his personnel choices. This game was the Orange's for the taking the moment Edwards stepped into the game in the first half and Syracuse went on a 15-3 run. Then Boeheim took him out and Houston went on a 15-3 run. Edwards was the difference today and it SERIOUSLY pisses me off that we're under 4 minutes and for some STUPID reason he's still not in the game. This is a "screw you Boeheim!!!" moment for me.

If we lose I put it all on Boeheim taking Edwards out. What the hell is Boeheim thinking not just keeping Edwards in permanently for this game after the impact he had on the 1st half on D????? I say this as the 1st half ends. I hope I can eat crow after a great 2nd half.

https://theathletic.com/2477632/2021/03/26/they-saw-something-in-me-ryan-bates-knows-the-value-he-brings-to-bills-talented-o-line?source=user-shared-article Ryan Bates was one preseason game into his first training camp with the Philadelphia Eagles as an undrafted free agent in 2019 when he got a call from an unknown number. He was on FaceTime with a friend and had a date scheduled with his girlfriend that night — dinner and a movie. Like he does with all unknown numbers, he declined the call and let it go to voicemail. Then he got a text from that same number. It was Eagles general manager Howie Roseman. “Oh, no,” Bates said. He told his friend he’d need to call him back and immediately called Roseman. As he heard the dial tone, Bates assumed he would be cut. Why else would the general manager be calling an undrafted rookie on a Friday morning? That wasn’t the case. Bates’ time in Philadelphia was over, but Roseman informed him the Eagles were trading him to the Buffalo Bills in exchange for defensive end Eli Harold. ... Bates was an extra player who could fill in where needed. Those first few days, he was needed at center. Lucky for Bates, he wasn’t entirely unprepared. While at Penn State, where he played mostly left tackle, Bates’ offensive line coach Matt Limegrover thought it would be smart for Bates to learn how to snap. He would spend extra time after practice working on the technique, knowing any extra skill would be valuable in the NFL. ... He passed the test in Carolina, stepping in at center during practices and playing 55 snaps in the preseason game against the Panthers. ... Over the weeks that followed, Bates forced the Bills to keep him around. He made the 53-man roster when the Bills decided to trade guard Wyatt Teller to the Cleveland Browns in exchange for a fifth-round pick and a sixth-round pick. Unlike other linemen who have bounced around teams or spent time on the practice squad, the Bills have kept Bates on the 53-man roster through the entirety of the last two seasons. He’s developed quietly in the background, filling in where he’s needed on the offensive line. ... Bates isn’t content, either. He understands his role but wants more. His goal is to be a starting center. Morse, who has been a mentor and friend to Bates, occupies that spot currently. Feliciano has played there as well, but that’s where Bates sees his future. “I feel like I fit better,” Bates said. “At tackle, some people might consider me undersized being 6-5, 305. People might say I have shorter arms. I can play tackle and guard, but the aspect I like at center is I’m in control. I like to make the calls. I’m vocal on the line. I like being in control. That’s the way I like to put it.” ... Bates knows the Bills have talent on their offensive line. But he’s also fallen in love with the Bills’ locker room culture. He watched Ike Boettger, an undrafted guard in 2018, grind his way into the starting lineup. Undrafted cornerback Levi Wallace has found his way into the starting lineup consistently the last three seasons.

I got @leh-nerd skin-erd to say "hardness" twice in the same sentence. Mission complete

And this is ultimately the point, isn't it? Everyone is looking at every job from an outside perspective. You relate your view the teaching isn't hard, but working for UPS is. I'm curious: do you think you're actually qualified to judge whether either job is hard? If so, why? The truth is I really don't know much about what a UPS worker does. From a distance, that kinda job doesn't sound all that "hard" in the way I think the OP is asking the question. It actually sounds similar to the pizza delivery job I used to have. Get some good podcasts or music and listen to it while spending hours on the road with occasional customer service? That doesn't sound hard... it sounds boring to me. But boring would equal hard to me. And I'm really not trying to diminish what your family member does. You only gave me a rough outline and that's what I went with because I don't actually know what they do. But as for teachers... why is it that everyone thinks they know so much about the teaching profession? Is it because we were all once students and so we saw it firsthand? Or because we're seeing it now secondhand as parents and we don't see the Einstein we know our children really are being produced so we pin it on the teachers who must be lazy and terrible? I can't speak on being a UPS driver. But to be a good teacher you need to be good in front of a crowd, have incredible patience, be a great actor, document everything all the time, be a great faciliatator, have your subject matter down, be increasingly creative with curriculuum, etc. All those things and more always applied to teaching, but from my experience teaching is getting harder rather than easier because there are just increasing demands as far as administrations and standardized tests go and there are more and more helicopter parents who automatically believe every word their child tells them nowadays. I said this in another post... I friggin love my job, so I don't like the word "hard." But it's a helluva challenge to be a good teacher. So I will say this: I happened upon one of those random state by state rankings as far as teachers go in terms of compensation and NY was #1... so that made me at least start to understand why there are those like you who feel this way about teachers. With that said, I very strongly believe this: Generally, you get what you pay for. I graduated from a public High School in a suburb of Rochester. It was honestly a fantastic school and I got a fantastic education and had fantastic extracurricular experiences. I also know that there were teachers making over $100k at that school... obviously older and closer to retirement, but that's still a lot of money, especially for WNY. But ya know what? I got an education at one of the best public schools in NY.... so that compensation makes sense to me. So... was that school great because it attracted the best of the best with higher compensation or was there higher compensation because the school district at some point discovered they had great teachers? I tend to think the former is true. So cynical. Why do you automatically assume that "slush fund" wasn't going somewhere useful? One thing that my school was able to do a few years ago with a somewhat similar "slush fund" was get ACs in every single room at our school and get Solar panels on top of our library to power the school. This kinda thing was a fantastic investment. Hawai'i has the best weather on the planet, but August and September can be brutal (especially in certain schools in leeward locations on the island) and frankly that kinda heat that I taught in--I'm sweating... students are sweating and getting tired because of the weather--simply isn't conducive to student learning. That's not me. That's brain research. Maybe your district was going to use that money to fund a drug cartel... I have no clue. But as I just said, you pay for what you get... so why would bonuses for teachers even have been all that bad? Because you didn't have kids in school anymore at that point? The most common argument I see from people pissed about tax dollars going towards education is because they either don't have kids or are sending kids to private schools. Silly... stupid argument. It's the same silliness you hear from those who don't want to pay any taxes but still want all the benefits of our country. So "a relatively small percentage of the general population can be a successful teacher" doesn't make it hard... and you think that's true for most jobs? You're going to have to explain that. So a "relatively small percentage of the general population can be a successful" at almost anything, according to you? So no job is actually hard, according to you? Every single existing job you would just characterize as "not easy..." other than your family member's UPS job, of course. That's hard. Please explain your criteria because I'm sure I'm not the only one confused by some mixed messaging on your part.

What makes you think it's the low end teachers who are the ones getting in front of the camera? I'm not saying you're wrong because I assume you have your own reasons for saying this. I just have never actually known any of those teachers who've jumped in front of the camera. But that's not to say that friends I have who are teachers--and good ones--aren't in agreement with what those publicity hounds are saying.

20 years in making $78 k sounds reasonable especially for school districts across our country that give annual increments along with things like "PD credits" teachers can earn. I'm 17 years in and making just over $70 k. I'm one "PD classification" below the highest level so my peak after 17 years would be somewhere around $75 k so that's pretty similar if you're just looking at the numbers without considering location. Of course the suburbs of Buffalo vs. Oahu are very different in terms of how far that money takes you.

An athletic director is an adminstrative position similar to a Principal. They make the "big bucks" in schools. They aren't teachers.

Well we're 10 month employees... so that 10 weeks or so of summer isn't technically "time off." And if you're wondering how that makes sense teachers then get paid for all 12 months if they're only 10 month employees, it's because we get a percentage extracted from every paycheck during the school year that goes to our summer pay. That's how it works where I live. In some places I've heard teachers can choose to get all their pay in 10 months and not get paid for 2 months so that they get more in each paycheck during the school year. How many years of tenure did this teacher have? $86,000 for a 33 year old teacher who's been teaching 10 years is very different from $86,000 for a 63 year old teacher who's been teaching 40 years. Can't speak to this because this wasn't what happened for us. We were given 2 hours off from work to get a covid vaccination if we needed it. I scheduled mine for late afternoon on a Friday so I didn't have to take time off. One of my best friends is a "gym teacher," and he gets pissed any time you call him that. He's one of the best teachers I know and does some amazing things with his classes. Also... as I just asked the poster above... how many years of tenure did this teacher have? Just saying "my teacher made this much" leaves out important context. And finally, I think it's strange that your teachers are talking to you guys about how much money they make.

Fair enough. I'm no Saint in the way I act here, either. I apologize for all those moments I choose to resort to retailiatory mode. That said, as to your question I'll answer from the perspective of being a teacher... and it's more complicated than a simple "yes" or "no." First of all, I really think we would need to define what a "hard job" is. I worked in a pizza shop both in-shop and delivering pizzas starting my Junior year in High School and all throughout college. It wasn't "hard" in most respects, but it bored the hell out of me for the most part and made me miserable... especially on the longer shifts. I remember working a 12 hour shift once doing that and I was just bangin my head against the wall by the end. If I were still doing that as a career today, I would be miserable and would probably characterize it as "hard" for that reason. I think the trick for absolutely ANYONE (this is not a teacher-specific thing) is finding something you love to do and making that your career. Not everyone is fortunate enough to do that. In fact, a lot of people aren't. But if you can find something you love to do... it makes the job easier because even the challenging stuff is enjoyable. In fact, sometimes it's the challenging stuff that makes the job enjoyable. That's how I feel about teaching. I meant what I said about knowing I wanted to be a teacher in 9th grade and never changing my mind. I love my job more and more every year because every year I feel I get better and better even with new challenges mixed in. This year has been the most difficult year teaching probably since my first year, but even once we finally get back to completely normal, there are a ton of things I can pull from what we've done this year that I'll continue to use moving forward. Teaching is a unique profession. It just is. It takes a certain kind of person to be a good teacher. If you aren't that kind of person, you'll probably burn out of the profession in a few years. Yes, there are bad teachers out there. I'm not going to pretend that all teachers feel the same way I do about the profession. But from my experience most of them really care about their craft and really care about the students. There's a lot more I could put here about this... I thought about bringing in some specific challenges I've confronted throughout the years... but maybe another time for those who are interested. And I apologize for the semblance of attacking your kids. That was not my intention.

Weird. What does this have to do with the OP's original question? You just that desperate to stand on a soapbox?

I really got under your skin, didn't I?