Jim Boeheim continued his run as one of the biggest losers in college basketball this weekend.
Reags covered ithereif you wanna read all of the quotes.
“This is an awful place we’re in in college basketball,” he said.
“Pittsburgh bought a team.
My [big donor] talks about it, but he doesn’t give anyone any money.
Our guys make like $20,000.
Wake Forest bought a team.
Miami bought a team.
It’s like, ‘Really, this is where we are?’
That’s really where we are, and it’s only going to get worse.”
Imagine one person in the world out there believing Boeheim was actually sorry and apologetic for what he said.
Brandin Knight, a current assistant at Rutgers and former player himself, had this to say.
All of it is a mess.
Why Boeheim thought attacking other teams for NIL was a good idea is straight up lunacy.
Never mind the top 100 recruit our main booster Adam Weitsman brought up a few weeks ago.
Surely he’s not getting a big NIL deal right Jim?
If he hates what college basketball has turned into then why not just ride off into the sunset?
Your sons are no longer here, there’s literally nothing holding you back.
Seems to be pretty reasonable resolution if you ask me.
NIL isn’t going anywhere, just leave.
Fun fact about me is that I absolutely love college basketball.
Okay the weather fucking sucked and I barely went to class, but those four years were sick.
It was incredible, but since graduating everything has basically crumbled down to the point we’re an embarrassment.
Winning 20+ games and being a top 4 seed in the tournament used to be the standard.
Now the new plan is maybe sneak in as a bubble if things break their way?
Anyone wanna remind him how the Illinois game went?
All his age does is conveniently open up an exit plan for both parties.
Unfortunately the AD there doesn’t have the balls to step and do something about this.
And yes, Boeheim is absolutely the reason Syracuse basketball is a thing.
He built the program out of absolutely nothing, but he’s more than overstayed his welcome.
I understand the hardest part of being a legend in sports is walking away at the right time.
Seeing an athlete or coach become a shell of himself is brutal.
I want to love Syracuse basketball again, but he’s making it very hard.
For anyone who thinks Jim leaving would ruin the program, how can it get much worse?
