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Message: [QUOTE="BillSU, post: 2308840"] Yup, JB is going to be 73 and I’ll be 74. Did you know that 73 and 74 is the new 63 and 64? A fellow SU grad and I, friends of Jim, used to pick him up at Bradley Airport around 5 P.M. the day before the game when we were in the Big East playing Connecticut. The team would go to the Marriott and we would drive him to games of recruits he had in his pocket for the next five hours then have a late dinner. I have never been in the company of someone so full of energy and optimism and basketball knowledge. And he’s still got that same energy, attitude, optimism but most of all basketball knowledge. When he says: “We have a 7-2 guy who’s a junior now, Paschal,” Boeheim said. “He knows what to do, he knows our system. He’s a very good defensive player. And we’ve got a freshman, Bourama Sidibe, who’s a very good defensive player. They’re weakness is offense, but we don’t need them on offense. We have very experienced guards, [USF graduate transfer [B]Geno] Thorpe. [/B]We’ve got[B] Tyus Battle, Frank Howard [/B]and other good freshman guards[B] [Howard Washington],[/B] so our guards are good. “Our forwards are very young, but they’re talented, [B]Oshae Brissett, Matt Moyer and Marek Dolezaj[/B] from Slovakia. He’s an experienced, international player. So they’re young, but they’re talented.”….. take that as gospel. Of course he hasn’t done anything but cement us as one of the most elite teams in high major division one schools. If you look at our recruits beginning with Pearl Washington you will see how many excellent players he recruited and because of those recruits Boeheim has guided the Orange to nine [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_East_Conference'][U]Big East[/U][/URL] regular season championships, five [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_East_Men%27s_Basketball_Tournament'][U]Big East Tournament[/U][/URL] championships, and 28 [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NCAA_Men%27s_Division_I_Basketball_Championship'][U]NCAA Tournament[/U][/URL] appearances, including three appearances in the national title game. In those games, the Orange lost to [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indiana_Hoosiers_men%27s_basketball'][U]Indiana[/U][/URL] in 1987 on a last-second jump shot by [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keith_Smart'][U]Keith Smart[/U][/URL], and to [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kentucky_Wildcats_men%27s_basketball'][U]Kentucky[/U][/URL] in 1996, before [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2003_NCAA_Men%27s_Division_I_Basketball_Tournament'][U]defeating[/U][/URL] [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kansas_Jayhawks_men%27s_basketball'][U]Kansas[/U][/URL] in 2003 with [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NCAA'][U]All-American[/U][/URL] [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carmelo_Anthony'][U]Carmelo Anthony[/U][/URL]. Sometimes when a situation in a thread is spoken about and debated I believe we lose sight of what he’s accomplished in his tenure here. He has more real wins than anyone – take away the NCAA’s voiding our victories. You can’t void them, we won all those games. I am anticipating an interesting next five years or more. How he deals with his son Buddy and the other players coming into this wonderful Syracuse University Basketball team will be very exciting to watch. How much this man has done for us is almost immeasurable. GO SU! [/QUOTE]

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