Ohio State's Pursuit of Boeheim Years Ago

[OrangePA]

I never took the story all that seriously.

But, according to Brent Musberger, on the telecast tonight, that Boeheim was offerred the job and was set to go, but changed his mind to coach Derrick Coleman and others.

Interesting. I never thought that any offer was made or that JB would have ever thought of leaving.

 

[4evaOrange]

wow...never heard of that one! Thank God he stayed!

 

[OrangeCrush22]

OSU would pay him straight ca$h, and he was younger back then, so I can see why that would be tempting.

Glad he wised up, though.

 

[JoeSU]

I wonder if our current and incoming talent pool is keeping him from retiring?

 

[tbonezone]

i'd need more verification than mussturd.and while we're on it knight and bm blow as a team imo. SNORE!!!!!

 

[jcuse44]

knight is great..musburger has been bad for 5 years and just gets worse. Boeheim never seriously considered ohio st. It was an offer much like his NBA offers he never took seriously

 

[Rocco]

John Syracuse confirmed.

 

[44PRIDE]

I remember hearing on the Coaches Show that he did have one offer that he took very seriously. Never mentioned the school on the air. Hearing the Ohio State story makes sense.

 

[85SUAlum]

knight is great..musburger has been bad for 5 years and just gets worse. Boeheim never seriously considered ohio st. It was an offer much like his NBA offers he never took seriously

Could have been worse - we could have gotten Vitale. I much preferred listening to Musburger and Knight.

 

[LennX6]

I remember hearing on the Coaches Show that he did have one offer that he took very seriously. Never mentioned the school on the air. Hearing the Ohio State story makes sense.

Makes sense because wasn;t Geiger the AD there then? The other rumours I heard were JB to UCLA as the AD in 1982 and in the 90's to Washington in the NBA

 

[rstone7727]

I remember some talk but I think it was never seriously considered by JB. Leverage for a raise maybe.. He's almost too loyal to SU, if that's possible.

 

[Noexcuse]

Didn't Jim O'Brien take the gig instead? And then got in trouble and never coached again.

 

[midloviking]

JB took a lot of heat during the early days. Would make sense for him to investigate other jobs. Since 2003 he has morphed into the legend we all love. But back in the early days he was no "God", that's for sure.

 

[bpo57]

Didn't Jim O'Brien take the gig instead? And then got in trouble and never coached again.

Gary Williams.

 

[IthacaMatt]

I remember hearing on the Coaches Show that he did have one offer that he took very seriously. Never mentioned the school on the air. Hearing the Ohio State story makes sense.

They wound up hiring Gary Williams, right? That would make even more sense; he likely would have been Boeheim's first recommendation after Gary was fired at BC, if he had turned it down himself. Or am I getting my dates wrong ?

 

[rrlbees]

That did happen. I think it was during the BET that it was in the paper and was the talk of the town.

 

[MyMeloMyMan]

i'd need more verification than mussturd.and while we're on it knight and bm blow as a team imo. SNORE!!!!!

At one point, Mussberger was talking about this great young nucleus Gtown has...setting up Knight for a comment heading toward Overtime...Knight pauses and starts talking about Withey from Kansas. LMAO Knight has become the dottering old loveable grandfather.

 

[CaptainJ]

If that story is true, we owe even more credit to DC, otherwise who knows where our program would be right now. It's funny when you find out how different things could have been.

 

[Frozen]

Read all about it:

http://sports.espn.go.com/ncb/ncaatourney03/columnist?id=1532880&name=wojnarowski_adrian

 

[orangefog]

It seems that Brent finds one player from one of the teams he is about to watch and then talks about them the whole game. That way he doesn't have to learn the rest of the players names. Today it was Otto Porter. He was practically calling him the national freshman of the year. I think that Kentucky has at least three freshman better than him, although he does look like a keeper.

 

[OburgCuse]

I never took the story all that seriously.

But, according to Brent Musberger, on the telecast tonight, that Boeheim was offerred the job and was set to go, but changed his mind to coach Derrick Coleman and others.

Interesting. I never thought that any offer was made or that JB would have ever thought of leaving.

Free tats!!!!

 

[IthacaMatt]

Read all about it:

http://sports.espn.go.com/ncb/ncaatourney03/columnist?id=1532880&name=wojnarowski_adrian

Great article. Did you keep that one, or look it up?

 

[IthacaMatt]

It seems that Brent finds one player from one of the teams he is about to watch and then talks about them the whole game. That way he doesn't have to learn the rest of the players names. Today it was Otto Porter. He was practically calling him the national freshman of the year. I think that Kentucky has at least three freshman better than him, although he does look like a keeper.

Bob Costas joked once in an interview that when he was a student at SU, he covered a Blazers hockey game. It was his first time doing a hockey game, and he was trying to bone up on the rules - 2 line passes and all that arcane stuff about hockey when you first learn the game. And as Jacques Lepin (or whomever) made a few plays early in the game, Bob decided that Jacques was going to have the game of his life - if he missed which player made the pass, or delivered the big hit, it was Jacques Lepin. Funny story. Mussberger and Coach Knight did sound kind of old tonight. With Brent, we've been seeing it for a while, but Coach Knight was not up to his usual standards tonight.

 

[Frozen]

Great article. Did you keep that one, or look it up?

I remembered that I read this a while back and just Googled Rick Bay+Jim Boeheim.

 

[sutomcat]

Read all about it:

http://sports.espn.go.com/ncb/ncaatourney03/columnist?id=1532880&name=wojnarowski_adrian

When Arizona State was looking for a coach in 1989, JB's name was bandied about a lot. The Sun Devil at least were really interested in Jim. They ended up getting Bill Frieder, who announced he was leaving Michigan for ASU at the end of the regular season, just prior to the NCAA tournament (ASU reportedly paid him an outrageous salary to get him to leave the Wolverines).

When UM AD Bo Schembechler heard the news, he ordered Frieder to leave immediately, and promoted assistant coach Steve Fisher to head coach. Fisher would go on to lead them to an undeserved NC (Seton Hall was robbed).

Bill Frieder went 132-108 at ASU and only made the NCAA tournament 2 times in 8 years before he was fired. Never got another HC job after that.