Boeheim reaffirmed his retirement timeline at three years, but also said he could retire at the end of next season if he felt he was no longer effective. When asked about his farewell, he laughed.
Unless a new-look Orange squad next season mirrors the 2011-12 Elite Eight team’s 34 win campaign, Syracuse coach Jim Boeheim will have to be on the bench for his 41st season in 2016-17 to hit the 1K mark.
So the bar has been set in terms of Boeheim’s reaction to what those outside of the Melo Center are saying about a program that’s now a two-time offender in the eyes of the NCAA.
With an unusually long eight day, mid-season layoff until Virginia Tech comes into the Dome Feb. 3, it will be back to the business at hand which for this gritty and determined, if not undermanned, team.
Jim Boeheim walked onto the Syracuse campus as just another non-scholarship guard on the freshman basketball team in 1962, and he still hasn’t walked off.
Yes, we can attest there’s been one season, three full games, and two partial games (one an exhibition) that Jim Boeheim has not been directing game strategy courtside as SU head coach on our ‘Watch’ dating back to the fall of 1975.