Syracuse cans Jim Boeheim

[August_West]

From the post-game press conference and from the timing of the prepared statement, Jim Boeheim clearly knew that the university was planning to fire him.

Yup. Unbelievable end to this. He made them fire him!

 

[CaptainRon]

Done, dead, morte, sleeps with the fishes

 

[jdb50]

Boeheim due to his lengthy run thought he was bigger than the University.

 

[Hey Adrien!]

What a weird ending to Boeheim.

Is Autry a zone D guy? Some zones are fun to watch (see Merrimack), but the Boeheim zone is a drain to watch.

Syracuse is fun to root against, but watching them in that zone, period, was just so boring.

 

[caw]

So, if he's looking for a job, I hear Georgetown might be opening up.

Seriously though, he doesn't sound like he wants to stop coaching. Would he ever take a job elsewhere?

 

[boba]

Feinstein's take if you are interested:

https://wapo.st/3ZWGo2h

Fifty-eight years at one school, all those wins and all that money he made for Syracuse, should have meant one thing: He owed the school absolutely nothing. It owed him. Most of all, it owed him the chance to coach for as long as he wanted.

 

[fatlucy]

Feinstein's take if you are interested:

https://wapo.st/3ZWGo2h

Terrible take

 

[TheChamps990411]

Neither guy really went out well.

Calhoun kinda hamstrung recruiting for a few seasons because he would tell everyone who would listen that he might retire in the next three minutes.

The Coach K or Roy Williams way is the way….either say it early and play out the season or just do it at the end of the year.

Coach K was all about having his ego catered to on the way out. Williams announcing after the season was respectable.

 

[F101Voodoo]

Adrian Autry to Take Helm of Men's Basketball as Jim Boeheim's Storied Career Comes to an End - Syracuse University Athletics

Nearly 60 years ago, Jim Boeheim '66, G'73 first arrived on the Syracuse University campus as an undergraduate student and walk-on with the men's basketball ...

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Kind of a weird way to end it. Gives me some appreciation on the way Calhoun went out. Went out on his terms.

Exactly!

 

[August_West]

If CBS is smart, they are doing just that.

Say what you will, he’s one of the most brilliant basketball minds out there - and unlike most coaches or analysts, he pays attention to the game in general.

If there’s a 3/14 matchup, he knows the three seed and he knows the 14 seed.

If he was so basketball smart he would’ve scrapped the zone in an era where everyone spaces the floor and shoots 28 foot 3s.

 

[prankster]

If he was so basketball smart he would’ve scrapped the zone in an era where everyone spaces the floor and shoots 28 foot 3s.

That may have been his ultimate problem.

The 2/3 was his strength. He knew how to coach that.

It was not necessarily the strength of NCAA bball or the strength of his players.

Literally, the game had passed him by.

 

[Classof87]

I can’t imagine Boe-whine announcing games or working in the studio. He seemed to hold most members of the media in contempt; joining their ranks would be like sending his grandkids to college at Georgetown or UConn.

 

[nomar]

Neither guy really went out well.

Calhoun kinda hamstrung recruiting for a few seasons because he would tell everyone who would listen that he might retire in the next three minutes.

The Coach K or Roy Williams way is the way….either say it early and play out the season or just do it at the end of the year.

I think HooperScooper was simply saying, correctly, that JC went out on his own terms. Nobody forced him out.

Whether the way he left was good for the program is another matter. I think you summarized the consensus pretty concisely.

 

[Rico444]

Feinstein's take if you are interested:

https://wapo.st/3ZWGo2h

Written like a true UConn fan.

 

[TRest]

If CBS is smart, they are doing just that.

Say what you will, he’s one of the most brilliant basketball minds out there - and unlike most coaches or analysts, he pays attention to the game in general.

If there’s a 3/14 matchup, he knows the three seed and he knows the 14 seed.

He used to do a great tourney preview with Mike Franseca every year.

 

[FlippinCrazy!]

Surprised they didn’t hire Brad Stevens. No way he would’ve turned down the clementines.

 

[Huskyforlife]

Adrien Autry or Nate Oats/Brad Steven’s? Close enough?

 

[giddyup]

Hate the guy, but respect him. 47 years living in that frozen hell-scape of a dump says a lot. If the university had any class (which it doesn’t), they let him coach for 3 years and retire out at 50 years with proper recognition.

 

[Scoe]

Since Cuse left the BE to go the ACC Boeheim became one miserable SOB. Wish him a happier life in post coaching career.

 

[Stinger92860]

Should be in the studio probably. Just firing off hot takes.

Should be in Burns-Garfield

 

[CL82]

I think HooperScooper was simply saying, correctly, that JC went out on his own terms. Nobody forced him out.

Whether the way he left was good for the program is another matter. I think you summarized the consensus pretty concisely.

I know, he left the program in such a state that it was a national championship at the first possible opportunity after his retirement.

That bastard!

 

[Fishy]

Yup. Unbelievable end to this. He made them fire him!

Bizarre.

Coach K was all about having his ego catered to on the way out. Williams announcing after the season was respectable.

No, that’s you just projecting your dislike for the man.

 

[Chin Diesel]

Feinstein's take if you are interested:

https://wapo.st/3ZWGo2h

Written exactly how you'd expect an old writer in a dying industry to write it.

 

[runner11]

If he was so basketball smart he would’ve scrapped the zone in an era where everyone spaces the floor and shoots 28 foot 3s.

I don’t think either of us have evidence but the idea that Boeheim is plugged in on 14 seeds seems hilarious. I do agree he would be tremendous content and CBS should hire if smart.

 

[runner11]

That may have been his ultimate problem.

The 2/3 was his strength. He knew how to coach that.

It was not necessarily the strength of NCAA bball or the strength of his players.

Literally, the game had passed him by.

Curry changed hoops. Boeheim is running an antiquated system. And he was basically mailing it in with the defensive lineups he put out there. For years it seemed they were stacked with long kids with great athleticism. And then reliant on iso offense.