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This week's Sports Illustrated has an article by Alexander Wolff on coaches who stress leadership to their players but then don't take responsibility for their own actions. I couldn't find it on-line so here is the paragraph where they mention Jim Boeheim:
"Head coaches grumble about the NCAA's recent move to hold them accountable for the actions of their staff members. But Syracuse's Jim Boeheim and SMU's Larry Brown, recently hide-strapped for the misdeeds of subordinates, long ago used up their Get Out of Jail Free cards. Boeheim, who last March was suspended for nine games of the coming season and stripped of 108 wins due to an academic scandal that dated to 2001, skated in the early 1990's after the NCAA tied the orange to a New York street agent who had worked at Beoheim's basketball camp."
Firstly, JB, in his public comments has not argued that coaches shouldn't be held responsible for the actions of subordinates. He's argued that the penalties in his and SU's case were too harsh and has thus appealed them.
Secondly, the academic scandal didn't date back to 2001. The questions about SU's application of it's drug policy date back then. I don't think the YMCA issue dates back that far. And I don't think that really involves a "subordinate" of Boeheim's. But the real academic issue was Fab Melo in 2012.
Thirdly, Boeheim didn't "skate" on the Rob Johnson thing, unless they mean he wasn't fired. SU got penalized and couldn't play in the post season in 1993. Everybody was dealing with street agents at the time because the street agents got tot the kids before the coaches did.
Just another example of how the national press really digs out the truth of a local story.
"Head coaches grumble about the NCAA's recent move to hold them accountable for the actions of their staff members. But Syracuse's Jim Boeheim and SMU's Larry Brown, recently hide-strapped for the misdeeds of subordinates, long ago used up their Get Out of Jail Free cards. Boeheim, who last March was suspended for nine games of the coming season and stripped of 108 wins due to an academic scandal that dated to 2001, skated in the early 1990's after the NCAA tied the orange to a New York street agent who had worked at Beoheim's basketball camp."
Firstly, JB, in his public comments has not argued that coaches shouldn't be held responsible for the actions of subordinates. He's argued that the penalties in his and SU's case were too harsh and has thus appealed them.
Secondly, the academic scandal didn't date back to 2001. The questions about SU's application of it's drug policy date back then. I don't think the YMCA issue dates back that far. And I don't think that really involves a "subordinate" of Boeheim's. But the real academic issue was Fab Melo in 2012.
Thirdly, Boeheim didn't "skate" on the Rob Johnson thing, unless they mean he wasn't fired. SU got penalized and couldn't play in the post season in 1993. Everybody was dealing with street agents at the time because the street agents got tot the kids before the coaches did.
Just another example of how the national press really digs out the truth of a local story.
