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[QUOTE="realorange, post: 4598114, member: 292"]
Jim Boeheim will best be remembered by me for being the coach for Syracuse in the Big East and the Big East and him making Syracuse a basketball powerhouse.

Those games in the Dome when it could get so loud you couldn't hear the person next to you. The electricity created still gives me chills just thinking about it. The players on all the teams that were head and shoulders above 99% since then.  And most stayed for 4 years!  Thanks, JB, for helping to make it so.

JB was a brilliant bench coach and was second to none of the others when it came to doing the things needed to win a game.  The players he brought in were icons of the program and even those whose name does not hang in the Dome were revered by the fans.

I met Jim on a few occasions and he was always congenial.  The biggest smile came when he signed my commemorative program of the 2003 Championship while at a golf tournament.  I asked him if Carmelo was as nice a person as he appeared.  The smile came with the comment "Hes even better".

Since heading South, we've gone to many of the ACC away games.  It always put a smile on my face and a little chill in my body when he walked on the court and heard the boos and a few cheers.

Thanks, Jim, for helping to give me and Mrs. real many great memories.  May you find satisfaction in whatever you do now.
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