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Message: [QUOTE="SWC75, post: 4192051, member: 289"] PART 2 Gomez said that this was year #24 of this show. Jim was amazed. I recall submitting typed in questions, Twitch-style in the beginning but I was calling in at least by the 1999-2000 season. Jim decided to give his analysis of what’s going on inn the world. “It‘s a crazy world out there. Everything is upside down. Crazy people never stop. We need to go all the way with this guy. “Don’t get involved” – that’s what they did with Hitler. He’ll go into other countries. He’s trying to get the minds of his own people off of their poverty. He wants them to think “We are powerful.” He didn’t think the Ukrainians would be so proud of their country.” Jim is excited that masks will now be optional at the Dome beginning with the U of Miami game. “The fans have bene great. It’s time to move on. I’m 77 and whatever happens, happens. I don’t want to wear a mask the rest of my life. Our kids are ½ year behind in school.” His summary of the year his team has had: We began by not playing that well but got better. We played well at Florida State, U of Miami and Wake Forest, where we got a bad call. We’ve lost one point and overtime games. With Jesse we might have won the close games at Notre Dame and North Carolina. He was the one guy we had to have inside. Benny sees what he can be and what he ahs to do to get there. Next year the young guys will push it. I like what next year’s team could be. Right now we’ve got 6 ½ plays and will play as hard as we can and see what we can do…..I’m really proud of this team. It‘s not just about the record. It’s about playing 5 games in 9 days and taking North Carolina into overtime with guys playing more than 40 minutes and Bourama running around on one leg. They made two threes in overtime and knocked us back. Any knowledgeable fans are proud of this team. Duke beat us by 25 but they beat everybody by 25.” [No they don’t: [URL="https://www.espn.com/mens-college-basketball/team/schedule/_/id/150"]2021-22 Duke Blue Devils Schedule | ESPN[/URL] ] “We’ve competed with everybody else.” [Yes, we have: [URL="https://www.espn.com/mens-college-basketball/team/schedule/_/id/183"]2021-22 Syracuse Orange Schedule | ESPN[/URL] ] “We played the top two teams in the conference twice and the two teams below them on the road. Our pre-conference schedule was too tough.” Coach K was interviewed by Michael Wilbon on what he’ll miss the most rom coaching. He said it was the preparation. JB: “Everybody prepares but he takes it to another level. It’s his military background. All coaches will miss trying to work the group to get better. I don’t know if we’ll miss the games that much, unless the team does something people didn’t think they could do.” Coach K said that he wouldn’t miss how the game is being administered. Jim used that as a que to complain about NIL “when it’s fake. We have no leadership. We abdicated to committees over the president. There’s a new group re-organizing the NCAA. They may finish their work this summer. They switched to Twitch, (or twitched to Switch). Gomez: “We’re down to the nitty gritty. It’s going to be an emotional day for the family Saturday. It will be great to walk out there with the boys. Jimmy never got a Senior Night experience at Cornell.” [Imagine what the standing ovation for Jim, for Juli, for Buddy and for Jimmy is going to be like!?! :confused: :rolleyes: :oops: :cool: :)] What is Jim going to tell the next class? “As long as I’m going to be coaching I’m not going to tell them that I’m not going to be their coach. When I’m not going to coach any more, we’ll explain it to them.” Who would win a contest: Buddy from half court vs. Arinze from the foul line? “Buddy is pretty good but I’d go for Arinze”. [Maybe not: [URL="http://orangehoops.org/AOnuaku.htm"]Arinze Onuaku[/URL] ] What will Coach K do in retirement? He said he’ll put basketball in the rearview mirror while he spends his time at the beach. Coach Boeheim was surprised that Roy Williams keeps going to North Carolina games. “I won’t do that. We’ll leave the program in good hands. I’ll travel more, take vacations. I haven’t taken more than a 4-day vacation in 56 years. I’m trying to think – we’ve been to the Bahamas, Disneyworld, Universal, Pennsylvania, Greenbriar.” [He went all the way to Pennsylvania on a vacation?] “Summers are pretty good. I get to play golf at night.” Tickets are going for “$75 grand” for Coach K’s last game at Cameron vs. UNC. Will JB’s last game produce such a price? “I don’t think so. He’s higher on the totem poll.” [Not around here.] Golf: Jim would like to see Tiger come back but he doesn’t think he can beat the younger players.“ He should be allowed to play with a cart. But there are too many good young players out there. I don’t think he’ll make it back this year.” He’s a big Rory McIlroy fan. “I’ve followed him since he was 17.” He described some amazing shot he saw Rory make at that age. “He hasn’t been as good as I thought. Once he got married he lost full focus on the game.” [URL unfurl="true"]https://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=Damn+Yankees+I+thought+about+the+game&&view=detail&mid=E1D26991FDE0131824B5E1D26991FDE0131824B5&&FORM=VRDGAR&ru=%2Fvideos%2Fsearch%3Fq%3DDamn%2BYankees%2BI%2Bthought%2Babout%2Bthe%2Bgame%26FORM%3DHDRSC3[/URL] Phil Mickelson “has changed the narrative for his whole career. The PGA t our has been really good for pro golfers. The new system, based on popularity, got Tiger $8 million and Phil $6 million this year. Phil really miscalculated. It will be hard to get out of it. I had dinner with him at Turning Stone and played a hole or two with him. He was really nice but he had a gambling problem.” Gomez decided to talk about Augusta National. JB: “You don’t have any idea how hilly that course is. Every hole is either way up or way down. It’s really beautiful. My first visit I followed Tiger’s first win and walked the course with him. You could get within 10 feet of him. You couldn’t get within 50 feet today. I watched the presentation of the Green Jacket. Then, as I left, a half hour after the tournament was over, there wasn’t a piece of paper on the course. They’d cleaned it all up in that time.” Has Coach ever been star struck? “Michael Jordan, Arnold Palmer a little bit. I was impressed with Obama but even moreso with Michelle. I’m a really big fan of Bruce Springsteen. Hank Aaron was always my favorite baseball player. I was a Milwaukee Braves fan. He said “Coach, you had a great year.” [Pause while JB blushed thinking about it.] I talked to Sandy Koufax one time in Florida. He was really nice. He was an outstanding high school basketball player.” [I’ve heard that that was actually his favorite sport.] On the MLB talks: “I can’t even find words for it. They need to come halfway. The owners give the players hundreds of millions and they want it back. They buy teams and a decade later sell them for 10 times what they bought them for. Franchises are now going for $2 billion! They are arguing about the minimum player salary. How many players make the minimum? The fans got mad last time. They will be really mad this time.” Coach doesn’t remember his own senior day – even if they had one. I looked it up and they beat Colgate 122-88. With that he recalled that “The coach was going crazy. If we scored 130 we’d average 100 points per game so he left his starters in.” Will the next coach come from the current staff? “The pan we have is a good one and everything will work out and we’ll have a really good coach.” And with that, Thursday becomes just another night of the week… [/QUOTE]

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