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Jim Boeheim’s radio show is on Thursdays from 7-8 or 9PM on ESPN Radio in Syracuse, which is AM1200 or FM 97.7 on the dial. The show originates from Carrabba's Italian Grill in Fayetteville. 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.
This year’s schedule: Tuesday, November 12, 7:00 pm, Tuesday, November 19, 7:00 pm, Thursday, December 5, 7:00 pm, Thursday, December 12, 7:00 pm, Thursday, December 19, 7:00 pm, Thursday, December 26, 7:00 pm, Thursday, January 2, 7:00 pm, Thursday, January 9, 7:00 pm, Thursday, January 16, 7:00 pm, Thursday, January 23, 7:00 pm, Thursday, January 30, 7:00 pm, Thursday, February 6, 7:00 pm, Monday, February 13, 7:00 pm, Thursday, February 20, 7:00 pm, Thursday, February 27, 7:00 pm,
Thursday, March 5, 7:00 pm.
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:
Submit a Question! - Syracuse University Athletics
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: TuneIn | Free Internet Radio | NFL, Sports, Podcasts, Music & News
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
First Hour:
“Coach in the past you’ve typically used about 10 scholarships on recruited players. You’ve said that you don’t want guys who expected to play sitting on the end of your bench and unhappy about it. This year you’ve got 12 such players and would have had 13 if Oshea hadn’t left. They are all underclassmen and yet you are recruiting more players for next year. Did you make a decision that, with so many guys leaving early, you wanted their replacements to already be on the team and learning your system so you might as well use all your scholarships?”
Second Hour:
“Coach, I Iooked at the high school highlight clips of our three centers, Bourama Sidibie, Jesse Edwards and John Bol Ajak. Bourama’s tape showed that, when healthy, he has all the abilities you’d want from a center: blocking shots, rebounding, running the court, driving to the basket, posting up, hitting short jumpers. With Edwards and Bol Ajak, I saw no defensive highlights. Both of them have said in interviews that they consider themselves to be non-traditional centers with diverse skills. I think you are kind of a traditionalist regarding centers: you want defense and rebounding. Do Jesse and John have the talent in those areas that you want in your centers?”
COACH BOEHEIM
(I have, in some instances, put together statements from different parts of the broadcast on the same subject. The quotes may not be verbatim –they are from my scribbled notes. I have not knowingly changed the meaning. In recent years they have started out doing one hour shows and then shifted to two hour shows in January. When they do two hour shows. I will do two posts: one on the night of the broadcast on the issues directly relating to the team on the other the next days on other things that were talked about.)
This was just an hour show- no Gomez segment yet. (That normally begins with the new year). Jim was not happy about people’s reaction to the Virginia game. “We haven’t beaten Virginia five years”, (well, not since 2/4/17 when we beat then 66-62 in the Dome). Last year we had Tyus Battle, a G league player, (he who shall not be named), at forward and Elijah Hughes and we got beat by 100. This is their best defensive team. We held them to 48 points and forced 16 turnovers. That’s not bad. You don’t measure yourself against Virginia. You have to look at the first 10-12 games. Then you can tell where we are going. We have potential but an unbelievable amount of work to do. The world isn’t ending.”
Later, when I called in my first question, (there was no opportunity for the second one), I prefaced my question by adding another point to Jim’s analysis of the Virginia game: people have been complaining that Virginia is rebuilding to: why are they so far ahead of us to begin the season? I pointed out that their perimeter game was as unproductive as ours. The Cavs won the game inside, led by Diakite, a senior and Huff, a junior. Diakite is an NBA player. Jim’s response to that was broken up by a technical glitch.
Jim said the NIT teams coming up “are all improved and potential NCAA teams. Iowa slipped up but they will be good. Colgate is an NCAA team. Pitt beat Florida State who beat Florida. There will be ups and downs.“ Matt Park pointed out that the NIT gives us some opponents we would not normally be playing. JB: ”You never know who you will get.” (It’s a box of chocolates.) “We will find out what we really have. We had a bad start last year without Frank. There are more moving parts here.”
That’s when I called in my question. Jim said that my thought that he wanted the players already on the team that would have to replace unexpected departures so they could learn the system and be ready when the departures occurred was “100% right. You have to protect the program. We didn’t know if Howard Washington could play so we recruited two guards. There was one guy we thought might leave but he didn’t. We’re going to have some unhappy players and transfers but you have to have guys ready to replace guys. You’ve got to anticipate. Guys leave. We didn’t offer Kevin Huerter because we were afraid with our scholarship limitations there wouldn’t be one for him. We actually wound up with three available scholarships.”
He then talked about a favorite subject and a frequent criticism. “We see these guys practice for two hours a day. We think we know what we are doing here. Fans think they know who should play. Guys play based on what they did in the summer and in practice. Some cases are close. Joe Girard or Brycen Goodine could each come in and make 3-4 threes. The players determine who plays. It’s who steps up. I look at the box scores and it’s rare to see a game in which more than 7 players play very much.” I was still on and recalled the 1996 national championship game in which Rick Pitino had 9 future NBA players at his disposal – and 7 guys played 192 of the available 200 minutes. “It’s rare to play more than 7 guys in a tough game. You might play more in some, especially if players aren’t that good. We have 2 centers, two guards and a 1 forward so that’s at least 9 guys, (or maybe 10). I didn’t want to play Marek at center but we weren’t getting anything.”
“We got more good shots than most do against Virginia. We had 8-10 we could have made but didn’t. We didn’t do a good job on the boards. Bourama’s been here for two years. He has shown flashes. (Somewhere G-Rob is smiling.) Jesse’s going to be good. It takes time. Baye, Onuaku, Andy Rautins – we’ve had 20 players who weren’t ready as freshman but turned out to be good players.” Matt suggested that going to prep schools like IMG (Edwards ) and West Town (Bol Ajak), is helpful. JB: “it helps but Jesse didn’t even play on the top team at IMG. He was only there for 6 months. He’s put on 15-20 pounds since then. We develop players. We get them to work hard and get better….Quincy is still learning. He’s used to being on the perimeter and shooting threes. He’s learning to play defense- any type of defense, man-to-man or zone.” ”
Colgate has 6-10 Rapolas Ivanauskas (15.9p/7.8r), 6-8 Will Rayman at forward (13.1p/6.5r) and 6-0 Jordan Burns (16.3p) who hit 8 three pointers vs. 2 seeded Tennessee in last year’s NCAA tournament for a total of 32 points, a game Colgate lost by only 7 points. “They have a good backcourt and a small forward. They are good and solid at every positon. They have good speed and quickness and veteran players. Every play will be important.” Matt noted that Colgate is in a “one bid conference” and must not only win the regular season but also the conference tournament to get back to the NCAAs. He wondered if Jim’s early career when SU was in the ECAC playoffs, was a similar situation. Jim: “The ECAC was one bid but we had a great team. We lost one year but got in anyway. You can be the 4th, 5th, 6th best team in a power conference and still be better than the best team in the lower conferences.”
The trivia question was this: Colgate went to the NCAA tournament for the first time in a long time last year. Who was their leading scorer the last time before that that they went to the tournament.
Jim said that Seattle “has guys who can run and shoot. I’ll be paying more attention to them after the Colgate game.” Matt asked what defensive principles Jim was teaching in practice in preparation for the upcoming games. “To get better, prepare for anything they may throw at it. Offensively, it’s execution.” Are 29 three point attempts too many? Jim wasn’t concerned. “They don’t let you get to the basket. That’s why they are so good. “
Jay in Burlington called in to say “We’re used to a higher shooting percentage. How do we bring that up? We used to run and shoot more.” JB: “Virginia holds everybody to 20 points lower than they normally shoot. We missed some we could have made. Thanks Jay.” He added “We moved the ball well, especially with Marek in there. But we got nothing even when we moved it.”
Matt asked if the construction on the Dome had caused problems. JB: “We get into the Dome enough. Other teams can use it if there isn’t an event there. If there is they can used the Melo Center. We just have to get through it. We’ll have a better lighting and sound system. We also won have to worry about canceling anything when it snows, (referring to the rare occasions when they had to deflate the roof). The toughest job in Syracuse is climbing up onto that roof to clear the snow from it.”
The women are playing the University of Oregon, who defeated our Olympic team, which was full of WNBA players.“ Jim said it will be a difficult game for the Orangewomen – and suggested that the Olympic team might be a bit old and that they needed Breanna Stewart.
Nate, an 8 year old from Manlius, asked which game the Coach most wanted to win this year. That was an easy one. “The next one, Nate.”
This year’s schedule: Tuesday, November 12, 7:00 pm, Tuesday, November 19, 7:00 pm, Thursday, December 5, 7:00 pm, Thursday, December 12, 7:00 pm, Thursday, December 19, 7:00 pm, Thursday, December 26, 7:00 pm, Thursday, January 2, 7:00 pm, Thursday, January 9, 7:00 pm, Thursday, January 16, 7:00 pm, Thursday, January 23, 7:00 pm, Thursday, January 30, 7:00 pm, Thursday, February 6, 7:00 pm, Monday, February 13, 7:00 pm, Thursday, February 20, 7:00 pm, Thursday, February 27, 7:00 pm,
Thursday, March 5, 7:00 pm.
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:
Submit a Question! - Syracuse University Athletics
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: TuneIn | Free Internet Radio | NFL, Sports, Podcasts, Music & News
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
First Hour:
“Coach in the past you’ve typically used about 10 scholarships on recruited players. You’ve said that you don’t want guys who expected to play sitting on the end of your bench and unhappy about it. This year you’ve got 12 such players and would have had 13 if Oshea hadn’t left. They are all underclassmen and yet you are recruiting more players for next year. Did you make a decision that, with so many guys leaving early, you wanted their replacements to already be on the team and learning your system so you might as well use all your scholarships?”
Second Hour:
“Coach, I Iooked at the high school highlight clips of our three centers, Bourama Sidibie, Jesse Edwards and John Bol Ajak. Bourama’s tape showed that, when healthy, he has all the abilities you’d want from a center: blocking shots, rebounding, running the court, driving to the basket, posting up, hitting short jumpers. With Edwards and Bol Ajak, I saw no defensive highlights. Both of them have said in interviews that they consider themselves to be non-traditional centers with diverse skills. I think you are kind of a traditionalist regarding centers: you want defense and rebounding. Do Jesse and John have the talent in those areas that you want in your centers?”
COACH BOEHEIM
(I have, in some instances, put together statements from different parts of the broadcast on the same subject. The quotes may not be verbatim –they are from my scribbled notes. I have not knowingly changed the meaning. In recent years they have started out doing one hour shows and then shifted to two hour shows in January. When they do two hour shows. I will do two posts: one on the night of the broadcast on the issues directly relating to the team on the other the next days on other things that were talked about.)
This was just an hour show- no Gomez segment yet. (That normally begins with the new year). Jim was not happy about people’s reaction to the Virginia game. “We haven’t beaten Virginia five years”, (well, not since 2/4/17 when we beat then 66-62 in the Dome). Last year we had Tyus Battle, a G league player, (he who shall not be named), at forward and Elijah Hughes and we got beat by 100. This is their best defensive team. We held them to 48 points and forced 16 turnovers. That’s not bad. You don’t measure yourself against Virginia. You have to look at the first 10-12 games. Then you can tell where we are going. We have potential but an unbelievable amount of work to do. The world isn’t ending.”
Later, when I called in my first question, (there was no opportunity for the second one), I prefaced my question by adding another point to Jim’s analysis of the Virginia game: people have been complaining that Virginia is rebuilding to: why are they so far ahead of us to begin the season? I pointed out that their perimeter game was as unproductive as ours. The Cavs won the game inside, led by Diakite, a senior and Huff, a junior. Diakite is an NBA player. Jim’s response to that was broken up by a technical glitch.
Jim said the NIT teams coming up “are all improved and potential NCAA teams. Iowa slipped up but they will be good. Colgate is an NCAA team. Pitt beat Florida State who beat Florida. There will be ups and downs.“ Matt Park pointed out that the NIT gives us some opponents we would not normally be playing. JB: ”You never know who you will get.” (It’s a box of chocolates.) “We will find out what we really have. We had a bad start last year without Frank. There are more moving parts here.”
That’s when I called in my question. Jim said that my thought that he wanted the players already on the team that would have to replace unexpected departures so they could learn the system and be ready when the departures occurred was “100% right. You have to protect the program. We didn’t know if Howard Washington could play so we recruited two guards. There was one guy we thought might leave but he didn’t. We’re going to have some unhappy players and transfers but you have to have guys ready to replace guys. You’ve got to anticipate. Guys leave. We didn’t offer Kevin Huerter because we were afraid with our scholarship limitations there wouldn’t be one for him. We actually wound up with three available scholarships.”
He then talked about a favorite subject and a frequent criticism. “We see these guys practice for two hours a day. We think we know what we are doing here. Fans think they know who should play. Guys play based on what they did in the summer and in practice. Some cases are close. Joe Girard or Brycen Goodine could each come in and make 3-4 threes. The players determine who plays. It’s who steps up. I look at the box scores and it’s rare to see a game in which more than 7 players play very much.” I was still on and recalled the 1996 national championship game in which Rick Pitino had 9 future NBA players at his disposal – and 7 guys played 192 of the available 200 minutes. “It’s rare to play more than 7 guys in a tough game. You might play more in some, especially if players aren’t that good. We have 2 centers, two guards and a 1 forward so that’s at least 9 guys, (or maybe 10). I didn’t want to play Marek at center but we weren’t getting anything.”
“We got more good shots than most do against Virginia. We had 8-10 we could have made but didn’t. We didn’t do a good job on the boards. Bourama’s been here for two years. He has shown flashes. (Somewhere G-Rob is smiling.) Jesse’s going to be good. It takes time. Baye, Onuaku, Andy Rautins – we’ve had 20 players who weren’t ready as freshman but turned out to be good players.” Matt suggested that going to prep schools like IMG (Edwards ) and West Town (Bol Ajak), is helpful. JB: “it helps but Jesse didn’t even play on the top team at IMG. He was only there for 6 months. He’s put on 15-20 pounds since then. We develop players. We get them to work hard and get better….Quincy is still learning. He’s used to being on the perimeter and shooting threes. He’s learning to play defense- any type of defense, man-to-man or zone.” ”
Colgate has 6-10 Rapolas Ivanauskas (15.9p/7.8r), 6-8 Will Rayman at forward (13.1p/6.5r) and 6-0 Jordan Burns (16.3p) who hit 8 three pointers vs. 2 seeded Tennessee in last year’s NCAA tournament for a total of 32 points, a game Colgate lost by only 7 points. “They have a good backcourt and a small forward. They are good and solid at every positon. They have good speed and quickness and veteran players. Every play will be important.” Matt noted that Colgate is in a “one bid conference” and must not only win the regular season but also the conference tournament to get back to the NCAAs. He wondered if Jim’s early career when SU was in the ECAC playoffs, was a similar situation. Jim: “The ECAC was one bid but we had a great team. We lost one year but got in anyway. You can be the 4th, 5th, 6th best team in a power conference and still be better than the best team in the lower conferences.”
The trivia question was this: Colgate went to the NCAA tournament for the first time in a long time last year. Who was their leading scorer the last time before that that they went to the tournament.
Jim said that Seattle “has guys who can run and shoot. I’ll be paying more attention to them after the Colgate game.” Matt asked what defensive principles Jim was teaching in practice in preparation for the upcoming games. “To get better, prepare for anything they may throw at it. Offensively, it’s execution.” Are 29 three point attempts too many? Jim wasn’t concerned. “They don’t let you get to the basket. That’s why they are so good. “
Jay in Burlington called in to say “We’re used to a higher shooting percentage. How do we bring that up? We used to run and shoot more.” JB: “Virginia holds everybody to 20 points lower than they normally shoot. We missed some we could have made. Thanks Jay.” He added “We moved the ball well, especially with Marek in there. But we got nothing even when we moved it.”
Matt asked if the construction on the Dome had caused problems. JB: “We get into the Dome enough. Other teams can use it if there isn’t an event there. If there is they can used the Melo Center. We just have to get through it. We’ll have a better lighting and sound system. We also won have to worry about canceling anything when it snows, (referring to the rare occasions when they had to deflate the roof). The toughest job in Syracuse is climbing up onto that roof to clear the snow from it.”
The women are playing the University of Oregon, who defeated our Olympic team, which was full of WNBA players.“ Jim said it will be a difficult game for the Orangewomen – and suggested that the Olympic team might be a bit old and that they needed Breanna Stewart.
Nate, an 8 year old from Manlius, asked which game the Coach most wanted to win this year. That was an easy one. “The next one, Nate.”
