It’s because of the intellectual luster he lends the place. Challenged on the pathetic graduation rates of the students for whose progress he’s responsible, he explains:
“If everybody stays, our graduation rate is great… But some guys just don’t stay. If somebody had an answer, I’d love to hear it.”
Boeheim earns close to two million dollars a year for his policy of saying
1. If they would graduate, they would graduate; and
2. Fuck if I know.