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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 is at Carrabba's Italian Grill at 550 Towne Drive, Fayetteville, NY. The first hour, hosted by Matt Park, the Voice of the Orange, is on their general network. The second hour, which usually begins with the conference season, is hosted by Gomez, a local radio personality.
Their schedule: The AmeriCU Jim Boeheim Show Begins Tonight! - Syracuse University Athletics
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 | Live News, Sports, Music, and Podcasts
There’s now a third segment where Jim and Gomez can be seen on camera at:
The early shows tend to be in a one-hour format. I'll post a summary of them the same night. When they do two hour shows. I will do two posts: the Matt Park segment the night of the show and the Gomez segments the next day.
MY QUESTIONS/COMMENTS
1st Segment Question:
I’ll start by asking if Coach played Benny Williams 25 minutes last night, (as Cuse.com still says), or 5. Then I’’ congratulate him on having his most balanced attack ever, with every starter scoring between 16-19 points: 11 more points and they could all have scored 20. Also, we made ever shot in the first 10 minutes of the second half! Then:
“Coach, We’ve had some good defensive games this year and some bad ones. How much of defense is about speed and athletic ability and how much of it is concentration and determination?”
2nd Segment Question:
“Coach, you said in your last show that you expected that all of our recruits for next year are likely to play and that 2-3 of them could start. I decided to research the history of freshman starters in your tenure here and you’ve had plenty of them: 1976-77 Roosevelt Bouie, 1979-80 Erich Santifer, 1981-82 Andre Hawkins, 1983-84 Pearl Washington, 1984-85 Michael Brown & Rony Seikaly, 1986-87 Derrick Coleman, 1988-89 Billy Owens, 1989-90 Michael Edwards, 1990-91 Adrian Autry, 1991-92 Lawrence Moten, 1992-93 John Wallace, 1993-94 Otis Hill, 1996-97 Jason Hart, 2000-21 Jeremy McNeil, 2001-02 Craig Forth & Hakim Warrick 2002-03 Carmelo Anthony & Gerry McNamara, 2005-06 Eric Devendorf, 2007-08 Jonny Flynn & Donte Greene, 2009-10 Brandon Triche, 2010-11 Fab Melo, 2011-12 Rakeem Christmas, 2012-13 DaJuan Coleman, 2013-14 Tyler Ennis, 2014-15 Kaleb Joseph (and Kris McCullough), 2015-16 Malachi Richardson, 2016-17 Tyus Battle & Taurean Thompson, 2017-18 Oshae Brissett & Matthew Moyer, 2019-20 Joe Girard.
You’ve had multiple freshman starters 7 times but never three. We’ve also had some guys in recent years that didn’t pan out. Freshman always have to get stronger to play college ball. If we have 2-3 freshmen starters next year, how much of that will be because of the quality to the recruits and how much of it will be because the quality of the returnees?”
(I’ll probably also send in a question or comment during the Twitch segment but I’ll leave that open for a follow-up on something said during the show.)
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.)
Jim said that the roads aren’t that bad. It took him 10 minutes to get to Carrabba’s from Manley. Nobody was on the roads because they were too scared. “For 40 years in Syracuse, this was normal.”
NC State was “one of those games. They got going early. They are a decent shooting team, not great. They made some one-handed shots. We played great on offense. If we’d played good, we’d have lost by 10. Joe had his best game against pressure. Cole, Jesse and Jimmy were good. Buddy was pretty good. I don’t know if we’ve ever made 11 straight to start the half.” Matt noted that when Villanova beat Georgetown for the national title but playing a ‘perfect game’, they shot 79%. SU shot 74% in the second half. \JB: “We still had to make some tough shots to win it. Their back-up center had 14 points and 7 rebounds, which is more than their starter ever had. We played our best offensive game in along time.” Matt said that Smith had made some really tough shots. JB” And Allen made some threes. They beat Virginia and Virginia Tech and had Purdue on the ropes. They had a night (against us) where they could have won.”
Louisville is “playing the best they’ve played. They had Duke and North Carolina on the ropes. They had a guy who was suspended (Malik Williams).” The cardinals have lost 4 games in a row and 7 of 8. But “Coach Pegues is a good coach. They played great against the two toughest teams they had to play. That’s who we are playing.” Our next opponent, Boston College “beat Virginia Tech and blasted Pitt. They are playing well. A lot of times people say you take a team lightly.” Matt said he never bought into the thought of a team looking ahead. JB: “Sometimes these teams can beat you.“ Matt said something about that even happening if you are undefeated. JB: [crickets]
I called in for my first question. I noted the box score discrepancy and suggested that the Athletic department might was a math major to look over their numbers, (which are still wrong). Jim, laughing, said he was certain that Benny didn’t play 25 minutes. I also told him how close we came to 20-20-20-20-20 vision. I also recalled that we’d hit our first 16 shots against Michigan in the 1981 NIT game. Matt looked it up and confirmed that through a New York Times article on the game:
www.nytimes.com
I recalled it as the loudest I’d ever heard the Dome because the decibel level would increase with every shot and not have time to lessen before we made another one. I thought we would go on to win the NIT that year but we couldn’t beat both Tulsa and the refs, (who fouled out 4/5 of our starting line up but forgot to foul out Erich Santifer, who scored a career high 29 points to get us into overtime, where we lost by 2. I said that I hoped that if we got into the NIT again, we could win it, because we’ve never done that and should have then. Coach recalled that the tickets for the NIT were all the same price so everybody sat down below and that’s why the sound was so loud. [I was still up in section 308 and recall it as pretty crowded.] Also, he said the key factor in the final was that Danny Schayes hurt himself in the shoot-around and couldn’t play. And coach doesn’t want to win the NIT – he wants to be in the NCAA. I told him I do, too, but if we wind up in the NIT, I’d like to win it.
I then asked my question about the physical and mental aspect of good defense. JB: “It’s everything. Our players concentrate and are determined. On some rotations, our forwards go down to the baseline and then out to the wings. That’s a lot of ground to cover. Overall teams are shooting better. Virginia Tech was 18 for 25 against Florida State’s man-to-man.” [And I though NC State’s 16 for 39 was bad news.] “Man-to-man or zone- it doesn’t matter. The zone avoids fouls. We did not close out quickly enough. We’ve got three first year guys up front. I think we’re getting a little better. We were good against Wake Forest but it didn’t carry over to NC State. Jesse blocked two late shots and got two late rebounds. But our defense overall has been disappointing, the worst I’ve seen in a long time. Our offense is in the top 20 and it’s been a long time since we were ranked that high.”
He continued on to discuss assists. Apparently, people have bene complaining that we don’t get enough of them. “You have to get an assist against a zone unless you get a breakaway or an offensive rebound.” [State got 14 fast break and 6 second chance points against us.] “Against a man(to man) you can dribble and score.” He apologized for the long answer to my question but Matt pardoned him “It’s an hour show”, [that goes on for two hours]. He read from the SU-Michigan box score from 41 years ago. Danny Schayes had 22 points, Santifer 21 and Tony Bruin 18. JB: “That was a good team”. [That wound up 22-12.]
Matt read an item that Baye Keita became a US citizen today. Jim said that he’s working for the NBA and is “doing great stuff. He’s well respected and will wind up in a position of leadership.”
Josh in Boulder called to praise our balanced offense and Jimmy Boeheim who has “a different style”. Josh thinks Jimmy should get the ball more. JB: “His mother thinks that, too. Of course she also thinks Buddy should get the ball more. When we’re stuck, Buddy can still get shots and Jimmy can put the ball on the floor and make plays, too. A lot of guys struggle in their transfer year. We go from pretty good to really good if Cole gets his shots. We have to have 50-point halves if we don’t get stops. We’ve worked more on our defense than ever before, even if it hasn’t looked like it at times. We’ve rebounded better. I’m happy with Jimmy.”
Matt went over some of the ACC results. Our was one of two road wins last night- Notre Dame got one against U of Miami. JB: “Notre Dame is really good. They can shoot and score. Any of the middle group of teams can win. Duke is starting to assert themselves.” [They weren’t ‘asserting themselves’ against us?] Wake is really talented.” Matt described a problem with a fertilizer plant fire near their canvas that forced them to play a home game away.
Wake Forest Cancels Classes, About 6,500 Evacuated After Fertilizer Plant Catches Fire
Virginia Tech beat Georgia Tech 81-66. [I guess that proves who’s smarter.] Clemson beat Florida State 75-69, which makes our win over Florida State seem less impressive but our win over Clemson moreso. “They are really rough at home.”
The subject of the size of crowds brought forth an editorial on how we’re handling the pandemic. “We have to get the masks off and not force people to prove they’ve bene vaccinated with a card or tested and then the crowds will be back to normal. I haven’t seen a mask in any arena we’ve played in. is it somehow worse up here?”
The women were playing U of Miami and down 21-26. JB: “The girls are short handed and small.” [Everything else is to scale.] “But they battle hard.”
Matt noted that we’d used the same starting line-up in every game and stuck with them in the second half these last two games. JB: “If everybody’s healthy, you stick with the same line-up. Most teams play 7 guys. Villanova plays 6. You get a better rhythm.” Who could ask for anything more?
A typical scene from a Jim Boeheim practice session:
AN AMERICAN IN PARIS ('51): "I Got Rhythm"
“One guy can throw your rhythm off. If Jesse doesn’t get in foul trouble, you want him in. Sometimes they call the bumps and sometimes they don’t.” About free theow shooting: “We need to get the ball to the shooters late in the game.”
Stefan from Utica is going to Saturday’s game. He wondered what adjustments Jim made at halftime of the NC State game. Jim wasn’t going to be specific, (Dino Babers would be proud of him), but Jim said he ordered one offensive set that got us 4 straight baskets and a defensive adjustment “that didn’t work out. We won the game with really excellent offense.”
Jim never saw a Bengals win over the Chiefs coming. “But that’s sport. Cincy broke KC’s hearts after the Chiefs had broken the Bills [and Jimmy’s] hearts.” Tom Brady “was supposed to be done at 37 or 38 and he played on a championship level through this year. Not many guys go out after a great year. You can’t give the guy enough credit. He’s the GOAT more than anybody at any position in pro football.” Matt said that Jim Brown had a 50 year run “and that’s pretty good, too.”
That ended the first hour. I’ll do the second hour, (Gomez was back) tomorrow. But here’s a bonus: the answers to two additional questions I asked.
Regarding next year’s class vs. the guys coming back: “We’re going to lose three starters. Jesse is good and so is Joe. Benny could see the light and get more aggressive. Peter Carey hurt his foot and isn’t playing this year, so he may red-shirt. We have a good nucleus coming back and a good class coming in.” he said he’s seeking the option of a second season for Jimmy even if he doesn’t intend to use it because the Ivy players, who could not play last year, deserve that option.“
They got into talking about new stats that could be used. Etan Thomas wants “hockey assists”, (the pass that sets up the pass), and altered shots. Jim responded with his explanation of why the opposition gets more assists than we do and saying that Rosey Bouie would block 3-4 shots but alter 5-6 others. I typed into Twitch a proposal that loose balls should be a stat: everything the ball hits the floor not in anyone’s control: who gets it? Jim didn’t think it was necessary: if you lose the ball, that would be a steal. If you get it back, it’s not a turnover. If a shot was missed, it’s a rebound. I’m not sure that covers every situation. I want a stat for those ’50-50’ balls commentators are always talking about.
The subject of Jim’s favorite pizza places came up. He likes the original twin Trees on Avery Ave, Apizza and Mario & Salvo’s. I suggest Sapori by Antonio at the corner of Lakeshore Road and Route 31. Jim said he had been there, knew the couple who run it but had never had their pizza. But he loves their regular menu and the fact that it’s a small quiet place. (Not anymore.)
Their schedule: The AmeriCU Jim Boeheim Show Begins Tonight! - Syracuse University Athletics
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 | Live News, Sports, Music, and Podcasts
There’s now a third segment where Jim and Gomez can be seen on camera at:
The early shows tend to be in a one-hour format. I'll post a summary of them the same night. When they do two hour shows. I will do two posts: the Matt Park segment the night of the show and the Gomez segments the next day.
MY QUESTIONS/COMMENTS
1st Segment Question:
I’ll start by asking if Coach played Benny Williams 25 minutes last night, (as Cuse.com still says), or 5. Then I’’ congratulate him on having his most balanced attack ever, with every starter scoring between 16-19 points: 11 more points and they could all have scored 20. Also, we made ever shot in the first 10 minutes of the second half! Then:
“Coach, We’ve had some good defensive games this year and some bad ones. How much of defense is about speed and athletic ability and how much of it is concentration and determination?”
2nd Segment Question:
“Coach, you said in your last show that you expected that all of our recruits for next year are likely to play and that 2-3 of them could start. I decided to research the history of freshman starters in your tenure here and you’ve had plenty of them: 1976-77 Roosevelt Bouie, 1979-80 Erich Santifer, 1981-82 Andre Hawkins, 1983-84 Pearl Washington, 1984-85 Michael Brown & Rony Seikaly, 1986-87 Derrick Coleman, 1988-89 Billy Owens, 1989-90 Michael Edwards, 1990-91 Adrian Autry, 1991-92 Lawrence Moten, 1992-93 John Wallace, 1993-94 Otis Hill, 1996-97 Jason Hart, 2000-21 Jeremy McNeil, 2001-02 Craig Forth & Hakim Warrick 2002-03 Carmelo Anthony & Gerry McNamara, 2005-06 Eric Devendorf, 2007-08 Jonny Flynn & Donte Greene, 2009-10 Brandon Triche, 2010-11 Fab Melo, 2011-12 Rakeem Christmas, 2012-13 DaJuan Coleman, 2013-14 Tyler Ennis, 2014-15 Kaleb Joseph (and Kris McCullough), 2015-16 Malachi Richardson, 2016-17 Tyus Battle & Taurean Thompson, 2017-18 Oshae Brissett & Matthew Moyer, 2019-20 Joe Girard.
You’ve had multiple freshman starters 7 times but never three. We’ve also had some guys in recent years that didn’t pan out. Freshman always have to get stronger to play college ball. If we have 2-3 freshmen starters next year, how much of that will be because of the quality to the recruits and how much of it will be because the quality of the returnees?”
(I’ll probably also send in a question or comment during the Twitch segment but I’ll leave that open for a follow-up on something said during the show.)
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.)
Jim said that the roads aren’t that bad. It took him 10 minutes to get to Carrabba’s from Manley. Nobody was on the roads because they were too scared. “For 40 years in Syracuse, this was normal.”
NC State was “one of those games. They got going early. They are a decent shooting team, not great. They made some one-handed shots. We played great on offense. If we’d played good, we’d have lost by 10. Joe had his best game against pressure. Cole, Jesse and Jimmy were good. Buddy was pretty good. I don’t know if we’ve ever made 11 straight to start the half.” Matt noted that when Villanova beat Georgetown for the national title but playing a ‘perfect game’, they shot 79%. SU shot 74% in the second half. \JB: “We still had to make some tough shots to win it. Their back-up center had 14 points and 7 rebounds, which is more than their starter ever had. We played our best offensive game in along time.” Matt said that Smith had made some really tough shots. JB” And Allen made some threes. They beat Virginia and Virginia Tech and had Purdue on the ropes. They had a night (against us) where they could have won.”
Louisville is “playing the best they’ve played. They had Duke and North Carolina on the ropes. They had a guy who was suspended (Malik Williams).” The cardinals have lost 4 games in a row and 7 of 8. But “Coach Pegues is a good coach. They played great against the two toughest teams they had to play. That’s who we are playing.” Our next opponent, Boston College “beat Virginia Tech and blasted Pitt. They are playing well. A lot of times people say you take a team lightly.” Matt said he never bought into the thought of a team looking ahead. JB: “Sometimes these teams can beat you.“ Matt said something about that even happening if you are undefeated. JB: [crickets]
I called in for my first question. I noted the box score discrepancy and suggested that the Athletic department might was a math major to look over their numbers, (which are still wrong). Jim, laughing, said he was certain that Benny didn’t play 25 minutes. I also told him how close we came to 20-20-20-20-20 vision. I also recalled that we’d hit our first 16 shots against Michigan in the 1981 NIT game. Matt looked it up and confirmed that through a New York Times article on the game:
Syracuse Gains N.I.T. Semifinal (Published 1981)
I then asked my question about the physical and mental aspect of good defense. JB: “It’s everything. Our players concentrate and are determined. On some rotations, our forwards go down to the baseline and then out to the wings. That’s a lot of ground to cover. Overall teams are shooting better. Virginia Tech was 18 for 25 against Florida State’s man-to-man.” [And I though NC State’s 16 for 39 was bad news.] “Man-to-man or zone- it doesn’t matter. The zone avoids fouls. We did not close out quickly enough. We’ve got three first year guys up front. I think we’re getting a little better. We were good against Wake Forest but it didn’t carry over to NC State. Jesse blocked two late shots and got two late rebounds. But our defense overall has been disappointing, the worst I’ve seen in a long time. Our offense is in the top 20 and it’s been a long time since we were ranked that high.”
He continued on to discuss assists. Apparently, people have bene complaining that we don’t get enough of them. “You have to get an assist against a zone unless you get a breakaway or an offensive rebound.” [State got 14 fast break and 6 second chance points against us.] “Against a man(to man) you can dribble and score.” He apologized for the long answer to my question but Matt pardoned him “It’s an hour show”, [that goes on for two hours]. He read from the SU-Michigan box score from 41 years ago. Danny Schayes had 22 points, Santifer 21 and Tony Bruin 18. JB: “That was a good team”. [That wound up 22-12.]
Matt read an item that Baye Keita became a US citizen today. Jim said that he’s working for the NBA and is “doing great stuff. He’s well respected and will wind up in a position of leadership.”
Josh in Boulder called to praise our balanced offense and Jimmy Boeheim who has “a different style”. Josh thinks Jimmy should get the ball more. JB: “His mother thinks that, too. Of course she also thinks Buddy should get the ball more. When we’re stuck, Buddy can still get shots and Jimmy can put the ball on the floor and make plays, too. A lot of guys struggle in their transfer year. We go from pretty good to really good if Cole gets his shots. We have to have 50-point halves if we don’t get stops. We’ve worked more on our defense than ever before, even if it hasn’t looked like it at times. We’ve rebounded better. I’m happy with Jimmy.”
Matt went over some of the ACC results. Our was one of two road wins last night- Notre Dame got one against U of Miami. JB: “Notre Dame is really good. They can shoot and score. Any of the middle group of teams can win. Duke is starting to assert themselves.” [They weren’t ‘asserting themselves’ against us?] Wake is really talented.” Matt described a problem with a fertilizer plant fire near their canvas that forced them to play a home game away.
Wake Forest Cancels Classes, About 6,500 Evacuated After Fertilizer Plant Catches Fire
Virginia Tech beat Georgia Tech 81-66. [I guess that proves who’s smarter.] Clemson beat Florida State 75-69, which makes our win over Florida State seem less impressive but our win over Clemson moreso. “They are really rough at home.”
The subject of the size of crowds brought forth an editorial on how we’re handling the pandemic. “We have to get the masks off and not force people to prove they’ve bene vaccinated with a card or tested and then the crowds will be back to normal. I haven’t seen a mask in any arena we’ve played in. is it somehow worse up here?”
The women were playing U of Miami and down 21-26. JB: “The girls are short handed and small.” [Everything else is to scale.] “But they battle hard.”
Matt noted that we’d used the same starting line-up in every game and stuck with them in the second half these last two games. JB: “If everybody’s healthy, you stick with the same line-up. Most teams play 7 guys. Villanova plays 6. You get a better rhythm.” Who could ask for anything more?
A typical scene from a Jim Boeheim practice session:
AN AMERICAN IN PARIS ('51): "I Got Rhythm"
“One guy can throw your rhythm off. If Jesse doesn’t get in foul trouble, you want him in. Sometimes they call the bumps and sometimes they don’t.” About free theow shooting: “We need to get the ball to the shooters late in the game.”
Stefan from Utica is going to Saturday’s game. He wondered what adjustments Jim made at halftime of the NC State game. Jim wasn’t going to be specific, (Dino Babers would be proud of him), but Jim said he ordered one offensive set that got us 4 straight baskets and a defensive adjustment “that didn’t work out. We won the game with really excellent offense.”
Jim never saw a Bengals win over the Chiefs coming. “But that’s sport. Cincy broke KC’s hearts after the Chiefs had broken the Bills [and Jimmy’s] hearts.” Tom Brady “was supposed to be done at 37 or 38 and he played on a championship level through this year. Not many guys go out after a great year. You can’t give the guy enough credit. He’s the GOAT more than anybody at any position in pro football.” Matt said that Jim Brown had a 50 year run “and that’s pretty good, too.”
That ended the first hour. I’ll do the second hour, (Gomez was back) tomorrow. But here’s a bonus: the answers to two additional questions I asked.
Regarding next year’s class vs. the guys coming back: “We’re going to lose three starters. Jesse is good and so is Joe. Benny could see the light and get more aggressive. Peter Carey hurt his foot and isn’t playing this year, so he may red-shirt. We have a good nucleus coming back and a good class coming in.” he said he’s seeking the option of a second season for Jimmy even if he doesn’t intend to use it because the Ivy players, who could not play last year, deserve that option.“
They got into talking about new stats that could be used. Etan Thomas wants “hockey assists”, (the pass that sets up the pass), and altered shots. Jim responded with his explanation of why the opposition gets more assists than we do and saying that Rosey Bouie would block 3-4 shots but alter 5-6 others. I typed into Twitch a proposal that loose balls should be a stat: everything the ball hits the floor not in anyone’s control: who gets it? Jim didn’t think it was necessary: if you lose the ball, that would be a steal. If you get it back, it’s not a turnover. If a shot was missed, it’s a rebound. I’m not sure that covers every situation. I want a stat for those ’50-50’ balls commentators are always talking about.
The subject of Jim’s favorite pizza places came up. He likes the original twin Trees on Avery Ave, Apizza and Mario & Salvo’s. I suggest Sapori by Antonio at the corner of Lakeshore Road and Route 31. Jim said he had been there, knew the couple who run it but had never had their pizza. But he loves their regular menu and the fact that it’s a small quiet place. (Not anymore.)
