Right now, Boeheim the best at doing job he maybe shouldn't have

More than halfway through the season, the national Coach of the Year is Jim Boeheim.

Any idea how weird this is for me? Seven weeks ago I wanted Syracuse to fire Boeheim.

Today I'm calling him the Coach of the Year.

Don't get the wrong idea here. This isn't a backhanded compliment: He's the Coach of the Year, though he should've been thrown out on his ...

No. This isn't that. But it's not an apology, either. Not a correction. What I wrote in November, I stand by in January. I'll stand by it forever. This is not my resolve weakening -- but that's as far as I'll go in that direction today. The last thing I want to do here, today, is hide behind the façade of a positive story to smack Boeheim around some more. If I wanted to pile on, I would pile on. But I don't. So I won't.