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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:
“Coach, obviously this is Frank Anselem’s big opportunity. It would be a Hollywood ending if Bourama Sidibe could turn into the Bourama of the end of the season two years ago but his knees limit him. It seems we’re going to have to play some stretches with a forward playing center, which we’ve done in the past. Could you go over our forwards and what they might be able to give you filling in at center?”
2nd Segment Question:
“Coach, one thing that the fans are talking about was that we had 21 assists against Louisville, including 5 each from Jimmy and Buddy and only 9 against Boston College, with none from Jimmy and Buddy. How much of that was due to Jesse’s absence? How much was due to the way BC was defending us?”
Twitch: “Coach, does Benny Edwards have the mental toughness to be a basketball star?”
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.)
JB wasn’t there as the show began. Matt Park played some highlights of the BC game Jim’s post game comments: “They’re physical. Jesse was over-powered. Frank did OK trying to hang in there.”
After a moment, Jim arrived. He described Jesse’s injury: “Jesse slipped and landed awkwardly and jammed his thumb. There was separation there. We had to fix it. It should be a quick recovery. Jesse had bene getting better defensively with some big blocks. We weren’t thinking about using Bourama much because the first two guys were doing so well. He had a good practice today and is ready to go.”
I called in to ask my question. I started to site past instances where we’d lost centers and still found ways to win game. I referred to the 1981 NIT where Danny Schayes got hurt in a shoot-around and, according to the article I read, was hurt before the semi-final against Purdue but we won that game and took Tulsa to overtime in the final, despite having 3 guys foul out and Tulsa was +18 from the foul line. Jim jumped on that, insisting that Danny had been injured the morning of the final. I gave them the name and source for the article:
Story of why Jim Boeheim doesn’t hold morning shootarounds.
“It was bad,’’ Schayes said. “It was a big deal.’’ Schayes played that night, as he described it, “on one-and-a-half legs’,’ and Syracuse outlasted Purdue 70-63 to advance to the NIT championship game against Tulsa. “It just got more and more sore,’’ Schayes said. “By the Tulsa game, I could barely get up and down. I was pretty useless for that one.’’
Here’s the box score: Syracuse vs Tulsa March 25 1981 NIT Championship
I also cited Arinze Onuaku going down in 2010 but we made it to the Sweet 16 and Fab Melo’s problem in 2012 and yet we made it to the Elite 8. JB: “But those teams were already in the tournament. They were already really good tournament teams…. Teams can overcome everything. “
As to my question about what the forwards could give us: “Jimmy’s played center in several games. It’s not ideal. I have no reason to think that Frank and Bourama can’t do the job. Our depth was in back-up centers and forwards. But you’re not going to replace a player who was playing like Jesse. We’re going to treat it just like we did against BC only Jesse hasn’t fouled out. He just couldn’t play….Our guys never give up. They keep trying. I’m very proud of them. They did a lot to get where they are.”
“Boston College beat Virginia Tech and Notre Dame and we beat them with Jesse and Buddy having bad games. Our four game winning streak is better than people think it is. Wake Forest is a very good team. NC State beat Virginia Tech and Virginia. Louisville had played Duke and UNC tough.”
Someone named Shaw asked what offensive adjustments will be made. JB: “Frank will screen. We don’t throw the ball to Frank much. Bourama can finish. We can spread things out a bit more.” Matt said that “Frank’s athleticism is very apparent.” JB: “he’s just like Benny. They are both athletic. They have to know when and where to use it….Bourama doesn’t want to play the last 2-3 minutes of a game. He wants to be comfortable. If his knee holds up – and it looks like it is- I think he’ll be fine and will help us.”
Marty in Tampa asked if Jesse’s injury will set back his program to gain weight and get stronger. JB: “he’s not running so he’ll be eating. He will actually be working with the weights earlier than if he were still playing. He can do all the lower body work – the treadmill and the stairmaster. He can heal in 5-6 weeks. He knows the path he’s on but he ahs to get stronger. We want him to go from 228 to 240 pounds.
Christie Madison asked what sport Jim would coach if he couldn’t coach basketball. JB: “Golf. I neve rhad so much fun. I put my students on the front nine while I played the back nine. The only problem was that they didn’t pay me to do it.”
Someone asked “What opponent are you most intimidated by?” Jim: “We aren’t intimidated by anybody. We have the most respect for Duke because they have the bast players. But nobody intimidates us.”
Another asked “What keeps you going?” JB: “Improvement, fighting through adversity. This team keeps trying. They do a lot of stuff together. They are a fun group to be around.” [I wonder how fun it was last year.]
Josh in Boulder was very sad to heard about Jesse’s injury. “Jesse had great hands and could put the ball in the basket delicately and with grace.” Then he asked “What are the benefits of keeping it simple at the ‘5’? That was so vague JB just discussed our offense. “Our shooters are so dangerous there’s no double team when our centers roll to the basket. It helps, Jimmy, too. Face guarding 3 guys 20 feet from the basket – no team does that. We are as efficient offensively than any team we’ve had in a long time. Cole is shooting lights out. it’s hard for him to get lots of shots but he his finding his spots and getting better looks. He’s made so many big shots over the last two games.”
“Virginia Tech has 5, 6 even 7 guys who can shoot. They are the third best three point shooting team in the country. They let a couple of games get away from them. Notre Dame, Virginia and Virginia tech are playing the best right now.” Matt went over last night’s ACC results: Notre Dame beat Louisville, Wake Forest beat NC State and U of Miami beat Georgia Tech. JB: “Florida State has lost their two top players. It’s great to have depth but your 10th and 11th guys are going to replace your top two guys.” [Can our 7th and 9th guys replace our #1 guy?] Keye Aluma “is 6-9 but made two threes in their last game. They made 18 of 23 threes against Florida State.” Matt: Charlie Moore made a Pearl Washington shot to beat them at the buzzer.” JB: “And they’ve won 4 in a row since.”
Jerami Grant “stayed put, Michael Carter-Williams was waived but Elijah Hughes has a new home in Portland.” Jim said he’ll get a better chance at playing time there. The Harden-Simmons trade, (I thought that was a school in Texas), came through. “James Harden and Joel Embiid together will help the Sixers. Simmons…when you can’t shoot you can’t help too much at that level. Durant and Kyrie need to get back together.”
Jim doesn’t really care who wins the Super Bowl. The teams he roots for are out of it. He thinks the Rams defense may be too good for the Bengals. “But Joe Burrow has been great. He’s got a great arm and a lot of belief.” Matt noted that Joe was 7th-8th string at Ohio State “and is an advertisement for the portal.” Jim said that “the portal can be a good things in football. Basketball ahs only 9 guys. [6 at Villanova] “You can be a back up center and suddenly be starting. Football (coaches) doesn’t like it but it's better for the players.” Matt listed player show transferred to Syracuse with success: Leo Rautins, Wes Johnson, Michael Gbinije, Andrew White and Elijah Hughes. [That would make an interesting line-up.] JB: “It was easier for them. They were practice players for a year before they played for us. The new way it’s a big adjustment, even for veteran players who are se tin their ways. A lot of guys have struggled.” Matt noted that some coaches like the new ones at Wake Forest, (Steve Forbes from East Tennessee State), Boston College, (Earl Grant from College of Charleston) and Virginia Tech, (Mike Young from Wofford), got players from their old schools to transfer to their new schools. “there’s no question they can fit but it’s not that easy.”
Covid: “it’s too much for the kids to always wear masks. We are losing a generation of kids. We want them back and comfortable in school.”
Jim is, per Matt, lacrosse’s #1 fan. JB: “The women will be national championship contenders and the men…have always had a hard schedule. I talk to Gary a lot and he’s really smart and knows what he’s doing. He will surprise people. I knew Roy Simmons Sr, who coached football – he was Jim brown’s favorite coach, lacrosse and boxing. The Simmons family coached SU lacrosse for 60 years.”
I’ll do the Gomez hour tomorrow. But as a bonus, here are the answers to the question I posted:
Jim said that the stats they keep at BC “are not accurate. I never thought the assists are very good at BC. We had 11 three point field goals. You can’t get a three pointer without an assist.” [Joe Girard can.] he added that “Jesse got about 9 baskets rolling to the basket”. I suggested that “An assist is an opinion.” That got a laugh.
Benny Williams, [not Edwards] “has got be good before he can be great. He’s learning, working hard every day and I think he’ll get there.”
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:
“Coach, obviously this is Frank Anselem’s big opportunity. It would be a Hollywood ending if Bourama Sidibe could turn into the Bourama of the end of the season two years ago but his knees limit him. It seems we’re going to have to play some stretches with a forward playing center, which we’ve done in the past. Could you go over our forwards and what they might be able to give you filling in at center?”
2nd Segment Question:
“Coach, one thing that the fans are talking about was that we had 21 assists against Louisville, including 5 each from Jimmy and Buddy and only 9 against Boston College, with none from Jimmy and Buddy. How much of that was due to Jesse’s absence? How much was due to the way BC was defending us?”
Twitch: “Coach, does Benny Edwards have the mental toughness to be a basketball star?”
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.)
JB wasn’t there as the show began. Matt Park played some highlights of the BC game Jim’s post game comments: “They’re physical. Jesse was over-powered. Frank did OK trying to hang in there.”
After a moment, Jim arrived. He described Jesse’s injury: “Jesse slipped and landed awkwardly and jammed his thumb. There was separation there. We had to fix it. It should be a quick recovery. Jesse had bene getting better defensively with some big blocks. We weren’t thinking about using Bourama much because the first two guys were doing so well. He had a good practice today and is ready to go.”
I called in to ask my question. I started to site past instances where we’d lost centers and still found ways to win game. I referred to the 1981 NIT where Danny Schayes got hurt in a shoot-around and, according to the article I read, was hurt before the semi-final against Purdue but we won that game and took Tulsa to overtime in the final, despite having 3 guys foul out and Tulsa was +18 from the foul line. Jim jumped on that, insisting that Danny had been injured the morning of the final. I gave them the name and source for the article:
Story of why Jim Boeheim doesn’t hold morning shootarounds.
“It was bad,’’ Schayes said. “It was a big deal.’’ Schayes played that night, as he described it, “on one-and-a-half legs’,’ and Syracuse outlasted Purdue 70-63 to advance to the NIT championship game against Tulsa. “It just got more and more sore,’’ Schayes said. “By the Tulsa game, I could barely get up and down. I was pretty useless for that one.’’
Here’s the box score: Syracuse vs Tulsa March 25 1981 NIT Championship
I also cited Arinze Onuaku going down in 2010 but we made it to the Sweet 16 and Fab Melo’s problem in 2012 and yet we made it to the Elite 8. JB: “But those teams were already in the tournament. They were already really good tournament teams…. Teams can overcome everything. “
As to my question about what the forwards could give us: “Jimmy’s played center in several games. It’s not ideal. I have no reason to think that Frank and Bourama can’t do the job. Our depth was in back-up centers and forwards. But you’re not going to replace a player who was playing like Jesse. We’re going to treat it just like we did against BC only Jesse hasn’t fouled out. He just couldn’t play….Our guys never give up. They keep trying. I’m very proud of them. They did a lot to get where they are.”
“Boston College beat Virginia Tech and Notre Dame and we beat them with Jesse and Buddy having bad games. Our four game winning streak is better than people think it is. Wake Forest is a very good team. NC State beat Virginia Tech and Virginia. Louisville had played Duke and UNC tough.”
Someone named Shaw asked what offensive adjustments will be made. JB: “Frank will screen. We don’t throw the ball to Frank much. Bourama can finish. We can spread things out a bit more.” Matt said that “Frank’s athleticism is very apparent.” JB: “he’s just like Benny. They are both athletic. They have to know when and where to use it….Bourama doesn’t want to play the last 2-3 minutes of a game. He wants to be comfortable. If his knee holds up – and it looks like it is- I think he’ll be fine and will help us.”
Marty in Tampa asked if Jesse’s injury will set back his program to gain weight and get stronger. JB: “he’s not running so he’ll be eating. He will actually be working with the weights earlier than if he were still playing. He can do all the lower body work – the treadmill and the stairmaster. He can heal in 5-6 weeks. He knows the path he’s on but he ahs to get stronger. We want him to go from 228 to 240 pounds.
Christie Madison asked what sport Jim would coach if he couldn’t coach basketball. JB: “Golf. I neve rhad so much fun. I put my students on the front nine while I played the back nine. The only problem was that they didn’t pay me to do it.”
Someone asked “What opponent are you most intimidated by?” Jim: “We aren’t intimidated by anybody. We have the most respect for Duke because they have the bast players. But nobody intimidates us.”
Another asked “What keeps you going?” JB: “Improvement, fighting through adversity. This team keeps trying. They do a lot of stuff together. They are a fun group to be around.” [I wonder how fun it was last year.]
Josh in Boulder was very sad to heard about Jesse’s injury. “Jesse had great hands and could put the ball in the basket delicately and with grace.” Then he asked “What are the benefits of keeping it simple at the ‘5’? That was so vague JB just discussed our offense. “Our shooters are so dangerous there’s no double team when our centers roll to the basket. It helps, Jimmy, too. Face guarding 3 guys 20 feet from the basket – no team does that. We are as efficient offensively than any team we’ve had in a long time. Cole is shooting lights out. it’s hard for him to get lots of shots but he his finding his spots and getting better looks. He’s made so many big shots over the last two games.”
“Virginia Tech has 5, 6 even 7 guys who can shoot. They are the third best three point shooting team in the country. They let a couple of games get away from them. Notre Dame, Virginia and Virginia tech are playing the best right now.” Matt went over last night’s ACC results: Notre Dame beat Louisville, Wake Forest beat NC State and U of Miami beat Georgia Tech. JB: “Florida State has lost their two top players. It’s great to have depth but your 10th and 11th guys are going to replace your top two guys.” [Can our 7th and 9th guys replace our #1 guy?] Keye Aluma “is 6-9 but made two threes in their last game. They made 18 of 23 threes against Florida State.” Matt: Charlie Moore made a Pearl Washington shot to beat them at the buzzer.” JB: “And they’ve won 4 in a row since.”
Jerami Grant “stayed put, Michael Carter-Williams was waived but Elijah Hughes has a new home in Portland.” Jim said he’ll get a better chance at playing time there. The Harden-Simmons trade, (I thought that was a school in Texas), came through. “James Harden and Joel Embiid together will help the Sixers. Simmons…when you can’t shoot you can’t help too much at that level. Durant and Kyrie need to get back together.”
Jim doesn’t really care who wins the Super Bowl. The teams he roots for are out of it. He thinks the Rams defense may be too good for the Bengals. “But Joe Burrow has been great. He’s got a great arm and a lot of belief.” Matt noted that Joe was 7th-8th string at Ohio State “and is an advertisement for the portal.” Jim said that “the portal can be a good things in football. Basketball ahs only 9 guys. [6 at Villanova] “You can be a back up center and suddenly be starting. Football (coaches) doesn’t like it but it's better for the players.” Matt listed player show transferred to Syracuse with success: Leo Rautins, Wes Johnson, Michael Gbinije, Andrew White and Elijah Hughes. [That would make an interesting line-up.] JB: “It was easier for them. They were practice players for a year before they played for us. The new way it’s a big adjustment, even for veteran players who are se tin their ways. A lot of guys have struggled.” Matt noted that some coaches like the new ones at Wake Forest, (Steve Forbes from East Tennessee State), Boston College, (Earl Grant from College of Charleston) and Virginia Tech, (Mike Young from Wofford), got players from their old schools to transfer to their new schools. “there’s no question they can fit but it’s not that easy.”
Covid: “it’s too much for the kids to always wear masks. We are losing a generation of kids. We want them back and comfortable in school.”
Jim is, per Matt, lacrosse’s #1 fan. JB: “The women will be national championship contenders and the men…have always had a hard schedule. I talk to Gary a lot and he’s really smart and knows what he’s doing. He will surprise people. I knew Roy Simmons Sr, who coached football – he was Jim brown’s favorite coach, lacrosse and boxing. The Simmons family coached SU lacrosse for 60 years.”
I’ll do the Gomez hour tomorrow. But as a bonus, here are the answers to the question I posted:
Jim said that the stats they keep at BC “are not accurate. I never thought the assists are very good at BC. We had 11 three point field goals. You can’t get a three pointer without an assist.” [Joe Girard can.] he added that “Jesse got about 9 baskets rolling to the basket”. I suggested that “An assist is an opinion.” That got a laugh.
Benny Williams, [not Edwards] “has got be good before he can be great. He’s learning, working hard every day and I think he’ll get there.”
