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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 Big East season, is hosted by Gomez, a local radio personality.
The first hour is eventually, (it can take weeks) podcasted on the SU Athletics website on this page:
http://suathletics.com/podcasts.aspx
You can call into the show locally at 315-424-8599 or nationally at 1-888-746-2873. For Gomez’s portion, use 315-437-7644. Or you can submit questions from this page:
http://www.suathletics.com/sb_output.aspx?form=4
I will be posting my rough transcript of the first hour the night of the broadcast and will probably do the second hour the following day.
MY QUESTIONS/COMMENTS
First hour:
Coach, those people who wanted to see a tougher non-conference schedule have gotten their wish. We're used to being 13-0 or 12-1 going into conference play and winning 30 games. It will be more exciting but should SU fans lower their expectations for this team since we're playing a more difficult schedule?
Second hour:
I didn’t call in in the second hour.
COACH BOEHEIM
(I have, in some instances, put together statements from different parts of the broadcast on the same subject)
First a rant:
They did their usual swell job of publicizing the return of the show in advance- nothing. I flipped the radio on at 7:05 to just to make sure it wasn’t on tonight and there the show was. On top of that, their phone system wasn’t working so I couldn’t call in. I sent in a question via the link above not knowing if they’d get it during the course of the show. Then they got their phone system working and I was able to call in late in the first hour. It amazes me that they can’t do a better job getting out the show’s schedule in advance or on the technical end, (there have been numerous glitches over the years).
With Matt Park:
They were discussing last night’s big games when I tuned in. Jim feels that it was good thing to have this class of players come into the game and have this send-off to the season because “it elevates interest in the college game. Star players have an effect. They give college basketball a boost and will be the top picks in the draft.” He predicted that 8-9 of the top 10 picks in the draft will be freshmen.
Jack McCallum of Sports Illustrated was there as a special guest. He’s an old friend of JB’s since Jack wrote a piece on him for the magazine back in 1998. Jack said “I sort of liked him and he sort of liked me.” He also said that they were joint prostate cancer suffers. They are collaborating on a book that should be out next September about Jim’s career. It won’t be a full biography, such as Scott Pitoniak did a couple of years ago. This will be a memoir focusing on the Big East era and a first-hand account of Jim’s and the team’s first year in the ACC. Jack’s going to be following the team all year. Jack joked that it was close enough to Jim’s retirement 20 years from now to do it. “88 or 89 is a good time to retire”. Jim said that Jack was “the only guy I considered. He understands the game and coaching. He helped me to get this thing going.”
Jack previously wrote a book about the Dream Team.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_McCallum
Jack’s home base is Philadelphia and Matt asked him about MCW and the start he’s gotten off to. Jack said that the Sixers had hired a guy from the Spurs, (Brett Brown) to “recharge them but he’s not “in love with the rosters” and feels they still had to make a big trade to contend. He’s certainly impressed with MCW, though. He laughed about suggestions that the Sixers might tank to get Andrew Wiggins.
Matt asked the coach for a breakdown of how some of our guys have played so far.
CJ Fair has been “very solid so far. He’s the same player. We don’t want him to do something different. He’s going to get more shots.
Trevor Cooney “made 7 threes- then they guarded him.”
Tyler Ennis “had a productive first game. Then he scored.”
“We’ve got young guards. Look at Michigan State and how they did with their veteran players. We’ve played pretty good ball, although that second half was a defensive disaster.” Matt suggested it may have been, for the lack of a better word, “boredom” because they had a big lead. JB didn’t accept that excuse. “We’ve got young guys trying to win spot. Fordham made some changes and we didn’t react well to the changes.” A caller pointed out that we’ve given up 10 and 11 treys in these games. “In the second half we shut Cornell down and we did the same to Fordham in the first half. They started driving to the basket and kicking it out. We’d protect against the drive. That’s what they do. They have outstanding guards. Those guys are going to score 20-25 points a game.”
Regarding all the fouls being called “We don’t ever commit fouls like that. Referees are going to make calls. There’s been foul trouble in every game. It will take a while to adjust to this. The uptick in scoring is because players stop playing defense so they can stay in the game. It’s up in the air to see how this will come out.” Matt asked how it would affect teams like Arkansas and Louisville that love to pressure the ball. “They’ll adjust….People say that if you don’t have any money you should buy a lottery ticket and get rich. Teams’ wont got from playing a man-to-man to a bad zone, (because of the new rules). The coaches will work with the players in practice to make the adjustments.”
They talked about the upcoming Maui Classic. Coach said that “it has a really good field. St Francis just beat Miami, (66-62: the Hurricanes were 0 for 15 from the arc), Minnesota is off to a great start. California and Arkansas have good teams. Then there’s Gonzaga and Baylor. “
At this point they announced the phones were finally working and I called in my question. Coach: “We’ve always had tough (pre-conference) schedules, even though people don’t want to say it. I remember when we played Florida and Kansas in Kansas City. We used to have four tough games. Now we’ve got the teams in Maui plus three good games with Indiana, St. John’s and Villanova. Cornell and Fordham were much better than last year. I don’t know what kind of a team we have. You can’t over-estimate the impact of losing your backcourt and the shooting of James Southerland. Expectations nationally and locally are a bit too high. We aspire to play up to them but we aren’t playing efficiently enough right now to do that. We struggled to beat Cornell. If we played the same game against Duke, we’d be blown out.”
Matt noted that with Southerland, “It’s not just the points. He stressed the defense.” JB added that CJ Fair “got all those nice 15 footers because of James’ long shots and Michael’s drives. We lost three tremendous players who almost got to the national champion ship game and could have won it if they had.”
Matt note Brandon Triche is now playing in Italy and James Southerland is on an NBA roster (The Charlotte Bobcats). That led to a discussion of Arinze Onuaku, who was just let go by the New Orleans Pelicans. “He’s had so much trouble with his knees, first one, then the other. Big men are at a premium so I hope someone does pick him up.“
Scott in Jamesville asked about the “new hand check rule”. Coach: “It’s not really a new rule. It’s a point of emphasis. They used to not call it if you weren’t really stopping a guy. Then they didn’t call it unless you were holding. Then they suggested it be called. Now they are calling it with any contact.” Matt said it used to be about the effect of the contact. They agreed that any time you’ve got two hands on a guy, it should be called. Matt wondered if we will see more techinicals as players and coaches react to the tighter called games. “Refs will be patient with complaints. Players and coaches want to win and you can’t if you’re fouling. I didn’t expect it to be a problem for us. We don’t hand check as much because we aren’t out there.” (We are back in the zone).
Another caller suggested that the ACC would give us some tougher venues to play in. JB: “Sometimes in a big arena you don’t get yourself going. It won’t be a problem.”
Ron called to ask, since they are talking about the ACC tourney being in Washington DC, will it ever come to New York City? “Going to Washington is a good move. There’s a reasonable chance it will come to New York someday.” Matt noted that the NCAA tournament is in New York this year for the first time in 50 years. (That’s the Eastern Regional- the Final Four is in Cowboy’s Stadium).
I’ll do the Gomez segment tomorrow. They are going to have the Jim Boeheim show on Wednesdays until after Thanksgiving, when the Scott Shafer Show will have ended for the year. Then it will be on Thursdays.
The first hour is eventually, (it can take weeks) podcasted on the SU Athletics website on this page:
http://suathletics.com/podcasts.aspx
You can call into the show locally at 315-424-8599 or nationally at 1-888-746-2873. For Gomez’s portion, use 315-437-7644. Or you can submit questions from this page:
http://www.suathletics.com/sb_output.aspx?form=4
I will be posting my rough transcript of the first hour the night of the broadcast and will probably do the second hour the following day.
MY QUESTIONS/COMMENTS
First hour:
Coach, those people who wanted to see a tougher non-conference schedule have gotten their wish. We're used to being 13-0 or 12-1 going into conference play and winning 30 games. It will be more exciting but should SU fans lower their expectations for this team since we're playing a more difficult schedule?
Second hour:
I didn’t call in in the second hour.
COACH BOEHEIM
(I have, in some instances, put together statements from different parts of the broadcast on the same subject)
First a rant:
They did their usual swell job of publicizing the return of the show in advance- nothing. I flipped the radio on at 7:05 to just to make sure it wasn’t on tonight and there the show was. On top of that, their phone system wasn’t working so I couldn’t call in. I sent in a question via the link above not knowing if they’d get it during the course of the show. Then they got their phone system working and I was able to call in late in the first hour. It amazes me that they can’t do a better job getting out the show’s schedule in advance or on the technical end, (there have been numerous glitches over the years).
With Matt Park:
They were discussing last night’s big games when I tuned in. Jim feels that it was good thing to have this class of players come into the game and have this send-off to the season because “it elevates interest in the college game. Star players have an effect. They give college basketball a boost and will be the top picks in the draft.” He predicted that 8-9 of the top 10 picks in the draft will be freshmen.
Jack McCallum of Sports Illustrated was there as a special guest. He’s an old friend of JB’s since Jack wrote a piece on him for the magazine back in 1998. Jack said “I sort of liked him and he sort of liked me.” He also said that they were joint prostate cancer suffers. They are collaborating on a book that should be out next September about Jim’s career. It won’t be a full biography, such as Scott Pitoniak did a couple of years ago. This will be a memoir focusing on the Big East era and a first-hand account of Jim’s and the team’s first year in the ACC. Jack’s going to be following the team all year. Jack joked that it was close enough to Jim’s retirement 20 years from now to do it. “88 or 89 is a good time to retire”. Jim said that Jack was “the only guy I considered. He understands the game and coaching. He helped me to get this thing going.”
Jack previously wrote a book about the Dream Team.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_McCallum
Jack’s home base is Philadelphia and Matt asked him about MCW and the start he’s gotten off to. Jack said that the Sixers had hired a guy from the Spurs, (Brett Brown) to “recharge them but he’s not “in love with the rosters” and feels they still had to make a big trade to contend. He’s certainly impressed with MCW, though. He laughed about suggestions that the Sixers might tank to get Andrew Wiggins.
Matt asked the coach for a breakdown of how some of our guys have played so far.
CJ Fair has been “very solid so far. He’s the same player. We don’t want him to do something different. He’s going to get more shots.
Trevor Cooney “made 7 threes- then they guarded him.”
Tyler Ennis “had a productive first game. Then he scored.”
“We’ve got young guards. Look at Michigan State and how they did with their veteran players. We’ve played pretty good ball, although that second half was a defensive disaster.” Matt suggested it may have been, for the lack of a better word, “boredom” because they had a big lead. JB didn’t accept that excuse. “We’ve got young guys trying to win spot. Fordham made some changes and we didn’t react well to the changes.” A caller pointed out that we’ve given up 10 and 11 treys in these games. “In the second half we shut Cornell down and we did the same to Fordham in the first half. They started driving to the basket and kicking it out. We’d protect against the drive. That’s what they do. They have outstanding guards. Those guys are going to score 20-25 points a game.”
Regarding all the fouls being called “We don’t ever commit fouls like that. Referees are going to make calls. There’s been foul trouble in every game. It will take a while to adjust to this. The uptick in scoring is because players stop playing defense so they can stay in the game. It’s up in the air to see how this will come out.” Matt asked how it would affect teams like Arkansas and Louisville that love to pressure the ball. “They’ll adjust….People say that if you don’t have any money you should buy a lottery ticket and get rich. Teams’ wont got from playing a man-to-man to a bad zone, (because of the new rules). The coaches will work with the players in practice to make the adjustments.”
They talked about the upcoming Maui Classic. Coach said that “it has a really good field. St Francis just beat Miami, (66-62: the Hurricanes were 0 for 15 from the arc), Minnesota is off to a great start. California and Arkansas have good teams. Then there’s Gonzaga and Baylor. “
At this point they announced the phones were finally working and I called in my question. Coach: “We’ve always had tough (pre-conference) schedules, even though people don’t want to say it. I remember when we played Florida and Kansas in Kansas City. We used to have four tough games. Now we’ve got the teams in Maui plus three good games with Indiana, St. John’s and Villanova. Cornell and Fordham were much better than last year. I don’t know what kind of a team we have. You can’t over-estimate the impact of losing your backcourt and the shooting of James Southerland. Expectations nationally and locally are a bit too high. We aspire to play up to them but we aren’t playing efficiently enough right now to do that. We struggled to beat Cornell. If we played the same game against Duke, we’d be blown out.”
Matt noted that with Southerland, “It’s not just the points. He stressed the defense.” JB added that CJ Fair “got all those nice 15 footers because of James’ long shots and Michael’s drives. We lost three tremendous players who almost got to the national champion ship game and could have won it if they had.”
Matt note Brandon Triche is now playing in Italy and James Southerland is on an NBA roster (The Charlotte Bobcats). That led to a discussion of Arinze Onuaku, who was just let go by the New Orleans Pelicans. “He’s had so much trouble with his knees, first one, then the other. Big men are at a premium so I hope someone does pick him up.“
Scott in Jamesville asked about the “new hand check rule”. Coach: “It’s not really a new rule. It’s a point of emphasis. They used to not call it if you weren’t really stopping a guy. Then they didn’t call it unless you were holding. Then they suggested it be called. Now they are calling it with any contact.” Matt said it used to be about the effect of the contact. They agreed that any time you’ve got two hands on a guy, it should be called. Matt wondered if we will see more techinicals as players and coaches react to the tighter called games. “Refs will be patient with complaints. Players and coaches want to win and you can’t if you’re fouling. I didn’t expect it to be a problem for us. We don’t hand check as much because we aren’t out there.” (We are back in the zone).
Another caller suggested that the ACC would give us some tougher venues to play in. JB: “Sometimes in a big arena you don’t get yourself going. It won’t be a problem.”
Ron called to ask, since they are talking about the ACC tourney being in Washington DC, will it ever come to New York City? “Going to Washington is a good move. There’s a reasonable chance it will come to New York someday.” Matt noted that the NCAA tournament is in New York this year for the first time in 50 years. (That’s the Eastern Regional- the Final Four is in Cowboy’s Stadium).
I’ll do the Gomez segment tomorrow. They are going to have the Jim Boeheim show on Wednesdays until after Thanksgiving, when the Scott Shafer Show will have ended for the year. Then it will be on Thursdays.
