[Ed. note - Promoted from FanPosts]

You know why Al Skinner was successful? Because he didn’t give a damn what anybody said about him. He didn’t care if big-time, big-scoring Duke was in Conte Forum to face his team, he didn’t care who Coach K was. He didn’t care that there weren't fans in the stands, and if there were, he didn’t notice.

Now some may say that this was Skinner’s downfall. That his stubbornness in keeping with the Flex offense – his reluctance to switch to a more-smooth style of ACC play from the rock-’em, sock-’em Big East style – was what created the slow-moving games and the uninterested fans. One person in particular who’s saying this is BC athletic director Gene DeFilippo.

Now, I’m going to call out some people, so excuse me if you’re one of them, but don’t we, as fans, deserve some culpability in this? Yeah, I’m talking to you, the girl who waited in line for season tickets only to go to the Duke game and maybe a few others if her friends were going. Or you, the middle-aged bald guy I had to listen to berate Al during the URI game, after he told his son that BC wouldn’t win one game in the ACC (excuse me sir, but at that point in time they had already beaten Miami, so get your facts straight).

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