Congrats To Jim Boeheim On Win #800

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Jim Boeheim became the newest member of the 800 win club. Here's to 800 and many more
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One of the most overrated coaches of all time IMO. Yes he has 800 wins but he has been coaching for 33 years and has 1 national championship.
 

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he may not be the best coach, but you can do far worse. i take boeheim for granted sometimes, and think when he is gone i'm going to realize how lucky we were to have Jimmy as our coach for the past 30+ years.
 

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One of the most overrated coaches of all time IMO. Yes he has 800 wins but he has been coaching for 33 years and has 1 national championship.

Theres absolutely NOTHING overrated about getting to 800+ wins with most likely a decade of coaching ahead of him. He has mastered the zone (something pretty much no coaches can say) and if he was overrated I doubt that Coach K would want him to be such an important part of the USA basketball team. I mean he coaches the best basketball players in the world. Also worth mentioning some of the things he does off the court as a coach. He is a great recruiter for Syracuse and what he has done for the Coaches vs Cancer is great. He has raised tens of millions of dollars and shows what being a coach is all about. Never see Jimmy in the news for doing stupid shit, being at parties with students, recruiting illegally etc etc. And you say he only has ONE national championship in 30 years....Do you know how many coaches wish they had one national title??? My only knock on Jimmy is the fact that he may be the worst under 2 minutes coach in the game...I despise his clock management and decision making at the end of the games...Got much love for Jimmy though...Congrats
 

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and for winning by more than 20

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Jim Calhoun, Connecticut: “One, it means he’s an old bastard. Two, he’s not going to be happy about it. Except for Juli and his children, nothing seems to bring him happiness. And third, I just think for a guy who when I came into the league was only winning 25 a year and everybody thought he couldn’t coach, which I thought was the most ridiculous thing I’d ever heard, but he’s been an incredible barometer of what a successful coach can do over a long period of time.”

“And it seems every time you think you have him and he’s not as good, he keeps on coaching and keeps on winning. He’s been incredibly, incredibly consistent. He’s one of the few coaches in the country who continues to lose players and it doesn’t seem to affect him. Well, it’s not going to affect his disposition. We know that.”

“There’s very, very few people that have done what Jim Boeheim’s done.”
 

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http://www.dailyorange.com/sports/o...ts-new-low-for-boeheim-coached-team-1.1829685

RECORD LOW FOR JIMMY:


Orange holds Colgate to 8 1st-half points, new low for Boeheim-coached team



By Brett LoGiurato
Asst. Sports Editor
Published: Saturday, December 11, 2010

Scoop Jardine's goal every game is one that, in most, is unrealistic.
Hold the opponent to fewer than 10 points in a half. Never happened in Jim Boeheim's 35-year tenure as head coach of Syracuse.
"We had a goal, and we didn't want them to score over 10 points," Jardine said. "When you set goals like that as a team, everybody's going to work hard to try to accomplish them."
On Saturday, that goal happened in Syracuse's 100-43 beatdown of Colgate. The Orange allowed just eight points in the first half, playing in Boeheim's trademark 2-3 zone and adding in a heavy dose of a man-to-man changeup.
The eight points Colgate put up was the worst first-half offensive performance in Boeheim's reign as SU head coach. The previous low score was set by Princeton, when the Tigers scored 11 in the first half of a game played on Nov. 12, 1999.
"They just had a bad game," Boeheim said. "They had a bad game. We had a good game."
Sometimes, like with Colgate forward Yaw Gyawu's breakaway, Colgate couldn't even get a shot off. The breakaway for Gyawu should have been the one basket that came easy for Colgate Saturday. Gyawu streaked down the left toward the open basket, no one in front of him.
In came Kris Joseph. Syracuse's junior forward took an angle down the court, eventually ending up side by side with Gyawu and emphatically sending back his shot with a monstrous block.
"We really buckled down and took pride in our defense," Joseph said. "That was big for us."
And other times, when the Raiders did get a shot off, it wasn't pretty. That was evident in their first-half stats. Colgate shot a pitiful 3-of-28 from the field (10.7 percent). It went 0-of-6 from beyond the 3-point line. And no one player made more than one field goal.
Those stats led to more unique stats at the half. At nine points apiece, both SU guards Brandon Triche and Dion Waiters scored more during the opening 20 minutes than the entire Raiders team. At eight points, Scoop Jardine had as many.
The Orange swarmed to the ball in the zone. SU enacted the man-to-man defense effectively and gave itself experience that Boeheim said would be valuable down the road. And even in the few instances Colgate did get open looks, the Raiders couldn't hit.
"Colgate, they're struggling, and they really struggled tonight," Boeheim said. "They had some open shots early, and they just didn't go down for them."
And those stats also led to a game that was well in hand within the first five minutes. By halftime, the Orange had built up an eye-popping 46-8 lead. Just four minutes into the second half, the Raiders had already matched their first-half total of eight points.
Syracuse's swarming defense created 15 turnovers in the opening 20 minutes. But the Raiders didn't help matters by putting some passes right in the hands of SU players.
The Orange defense also finished the half with 10 blocked shots — three from James Southerland and two apiece from Rick Jackson and Joseph.
Even Brandon Triche got involved in the action, coming from behind and easily swatting an attempt from Colgate's 6-foot-11 center John Brandenburg.
"We're just being active," Triche said of the team's defense. "We're taking more pride in it."
 

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I strongly considered attending Colgate. Glad I saved myself a bit of embarrassment. College of former NBA'er Adonal Foyle.
 

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Congrats, Jimmy Boeheim. Its been a great run and I have enjoyed watching you coach countless games. I have always been a huge fan when others have knocked him. He is in the upper echelon of coaches in the nation.
 

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Congrats on win 887 today:::

And his first 30win season:

Syracuse (30-1, 17-1) matched the Big East record for victories — Connecticut also won 17 conference games in 1995-96 — and the Orange also finished the regular season with 30 wins for the first time in coach Jim Boeheim's 36-year tenure.
 

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Over-rated coach who will find the wins harder to come by once they get sanctioned for cheating.
 

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cheating? :ohno:

overrated? nobody has more post season awards without ever winning anything of any kind than Mike Brey

0 conference championships , not even a BET Championship game appearance, and an absolutely horrible record in March. All this despite having experienced players all the time.
 

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