Jim Boeheim
Jim Boeheim
James Arthur "Jim" Boeheimis the head coach of the men's basketball team at Syracuse University. Boeheim has guided the Orange to nine Big East regular season championships, five Big East Tournament championships, and 28 NCAA Tournament appearances, including three appearances in the national title game. In those games, the Orange lost to Indiana in 1987, on a last-second jump shot by Keith Smart, and to Kentucky in 1996, before defeating Kansas in 2003 with All-American Carmelo Anthony...
ProfessionCoach
Date of Birth17 November 1944
CityLyons, NY
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I think I may be more excited about coaching than I've ever been, ... I think I realize that I'm closer to the end than I am to the beginning. I know I don't have 29 years left. So, I guess I'm appreciating it more.
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Let the assistant coach come up to me and say, 'Gerry McNamara is overrated.' I'd like to see one of those guys come up to me and say that. He's been double-teamed all year, and the coaches voted him first team all-conference. The head coaches, they don't know (expletive), I guess.
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We keep playing all these teams, we're going to find that assistant coach who thinks he's overrated. Or that guy is already home.
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We keep playing all these teams, we're going to find that assistant coach that said he was 'overrated' pretty soon.
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You can't describe what it means. When you start out at five-years-old and all you want to do is play basketball, and when you can't play anymore, you want to coach the game, how do you describe it? It's almost impossible.
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It's a tremendous honor but it's like anything you get in life. It really doesn't change the future. You still have to go out and recruit and try to do the best coaching job you can. There is no better honor but it's not going to help us beat anybody.
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John Chaney and John Thompson made it possible for the black coach to get in the college game. Administrators need to win to keep their jobs. So when Chaney and Thompson won games, that's how black coaches got hired.
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He got guys like Dave Bing to come to Syracuse at a time when the program was really down, ... He made me realize that the foundation for any good team is good players. There isn't a coach in the Hall of Fame who didn't have good players on his teams.
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There is no greater honor a basketball coach can have than to coach for your country. I believe the whole country will unite behind this effort to win back the gold medal.
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If you win, it doesn't matter if a Martian coaches your team. I hope I'm not hurting any Martians' feelings that are listening, but Indiana fans are like any other fans. They liked Mike Davis when they went to the Final Four, didn't they?
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We just really couldn't stop them defensively enough to get to where we wanted to go. They shot the ball well. They played well, ... We made some uncharacteristically bad turnovers in this game that really hurt us.
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We just played three teams I consider to be Top Ten teams and, right now, we're not a Top Ten team.
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We just played three teams I consider to be Top 10 teams and, right now, we're not a Top 10 team. It's sad we have to play great teams back-to-back ... that's not the right way. Nobody else has to do that, play back-to-back Saturday and Monday games two weeks in a row with three of four on the road. That's too much to ask.
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We just had a lack of patience in the first half. It caused us all kinds of problems.