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Message: [QUOTE="SWC75, post: 1599978, member: 289"] Jim Boeheim’s radio show is on Thursdays from 7-9PM on ESPN Radio in Syracuse, which is AM1200 or FM 97.7 on the dial. The show originates from Delmonico’s Italian Steakhouse on Erie Boulevard in Syracuse. The first hour, hosted by Matt Park, the Voice of the Orange, is on their general network. The second hour, which begins with the conference season, is hosted by Gomez, a local radio personality. You can call into the show locally at 315-424-8599 or nationally at 1-888-746-2873. For Gomez’s portion, use 315-424-8599. Or you can submit questions from this page: [URL]http://cuse.com/sb_output.aspx?form=4[/URL] Or on Twitter at mattpark1 or “askBoeheim”. The show can be heard in Syracuse on FM 99.5. It’s sometime simulcast on AM 1200 or FM 97.7. You can also get it on: [URL]http://tunein.com/radio/WGVA-1240-s29191/[/URL] I will be posting my rough transcript the night of the broadcast focusing on my questions, the team and their last and next games and then a second post the next day on other things that were discussed. MY QUESTIONS/COMMENTS (Some years they have started out just with an hour show and later shifted to a two hour show. I came up with two questions and sent in the first, which is the question I always like to begin the year with. If it’s a two hour show, I’ll ask the second in the second hour.) Apparently they are going to have a Jim Boeheim Show during his suspension. I avoided any questions about the games being played during the suspension. First hour: "Coach, when your team won the Battle 4 Atlantis, someone mentioned that Syracuse has won a lot of such tournaments over the years. I decided to look it up. Prior to your tenure, Syracuse had one exactly one in-season tournament: the 1963 Hurricane Classic. Since you became coach we’ve won 36 of them. 21 were Carrier Classics, which were held in the Dome. But 3 were Pre-season NITs, 3 Maui Classics, 2 Coaches vs. Cancer, two Rochester Classics, a Lobo Classic, a Great Alaska Shoot-out, an NABC Classic, am O’Reilly Auto Parts Classic, a Legends Classic and the Battle 4 Atlantis. Your overall winning percentage in these tournaments (87.6%) is higher than your overall winning percentage (74.8%). We’ve had many good teams but we’ve also played many good teams. And some of our tournament winners, such as 1998-99 and 2001-02 didn’t have strong seasons after they got back from those tournaments. My question is: do you have some special knack for winning these tournaments, even when you don’t have one of your better teams?" Second hour: (if they have one): "Coach, I was looking at a list of Syracuse football players who have played in the Super Bowl. There have been 28 of them. I decided to see how many Syracuse basketball players have played in the NBA Finals. There have bene two: Our former police chief, Dennis DuVal, who played 14 minutes in the 1975 finals as his Bullets were swept by the Warriors, scoring 7 points with 3 rebounds and 3 assists and Marty Byrnes, who played 8 minutes for the Lakers against the Sixers in 1980, scoring 6 points and getting a rebound and an assists. With all the success we’ve had in basketball over the years, this is surprising. Is there some reason that our former players don’t wind up playing on teams good enough to play for the NBA title?" [/QUOTE]

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