Jim Boeheim Has Never Done Anything Wrong Ever
By Ty Duffy
Illustration by The Big Lead
Syracuse basketball committed NCAA violations. Wins were vacated. A postseason ban was self-imposed. Scholarships were limited. Jim Boeheim was suspended for nine games.
One could argue the penalties were light, given the severity of the allegations. The NCAA selection committee even gave Syracuse a pass for games Boeheim did not coach.
Yet, Boeheim does not consider what Syracuse did, academic fraud and deliberately skirting its own drug policy, “cheating.”
He clarified what he would define as cheating. The requirement a coach know about the violations also gets him off the hook for Syracuse’s 1992 scandal.
We’ll let CBS Sports’ Jon Solomon respond.