Dear Jim Boehiem

[WestCoastHusky]

Really? Why mention it at all? He's trying to get recruiting leverage.

That's exactly it. He is trying to gain some recruiting advantage. He sucks and I hope Cuse go choke on a chicken, but we all know they guy will use it recruiting against UCONN.

It is just another reason we need to get ourselves into a power conference soon.

 

[Hoophound]

Maybe I'm being naive, but for some reason I feel like Ollie and staff are cool enough that they can recruit just fine in this conference. They are so easy for the kids to relate to.

Player: "Coach Boeheim says your conference stinks compared to the ACC".

Ollie:" Well, we'll be on TV all the time because we are the flagship of the conference, we play a great OOC schedule, have new facilities and well, I'm cooler, younger and you like me better."

 

[Waquoit]

...knowing that he has been a solid friend of the program for years...

I missed that part.

 

[Fairfield 1st]

Maybe I'm being naive, but for some reason I feel like Ollie and staff are cool enough that they can recruit just fine in this conference. They are so easy for the kids to relate to.

Player: "Coach Boeheim says your conference stinks compared to the ACC".

Ollie:" Well, we'll be on TV all the time because we are the flagship of the conference, we play a great OOC schedule, have new facilities and well, I'm cooler, younger and you like me better."

Oh and if you're not sure let me get Lebron, D-Wade, and Ray Allen on the phone

 

[Fishy]

Reading the full transcript above and knowing that he has been a solid friend of the program for years, I will give him the benefit of the doubt that he was trying to say that if Syracuse was going to be in the conference we will be in, he probably would retire. I doubt he was trying to rub our nose in it.

What planet do people live on that they would think Jim Boeheim is a "solid friend of the program"?

He's not. He never has been - he coaches at a school that happens to have been in the same conference.

That said, I don't think he meant any specific harm or insult. It was a weird answer, but I think he ws just happy to be answering a question that didn't involve the NCAA, darts and a rule book.

 

[Point6]

ok friend of the Program may have been an overstatement. but what if he's melogroovy?:

http://sports.espn.go.com/ncb/ncaatourney03/story?id=1534161

 

[Jimdish255]

Maybe I'm being naive, but for some reason I feel like Ollie and staff are cool enough that they can recruit just fine in this conference. They are so easy for the kids to relate to.

Player: "Coach Boeheim says your conference stinks compared to the ACC".

Ollie:" Well, we'll be on TV all the time because we are the flagship of the conference, we play a great OOC schedule, have new facilities and well, I'm cooler, younger and you like me better."

+1