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.”
Boeheim: “I don’t think we gained any competitive advantage at any time…when they say cheating? That’s not true. Cheating is intentional."
— Dan Wolken (@DanWolken) March 31, 2016
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.
Boeheim: “If something happens that you’re not aware of and it doesn’t help you get a recruit, I don’t think of it the same way.”
— Dan Wolken (@DanWolken) March 31, 2016
We’ll let CBS Sports’ Jon Solomon respond.
You mean like Syracuse director of basketball ops sending emails from player accounts with coursework to professors? https://t.co/Zyu9zfKu72
— Jon Solomon (@JonSolomonAspen) March 31, 2016
You mean a metadata analysis conducted BY SYRACUSE that found someone other than the Syracuse players wrote papers? https://t.co/Zyu9zfKu72
— Jon Solomon (@JonSolomonAspen) March 31, 2016
You mean like a Syracuse official finding emails & not reporting them since he didn't think he'd be taken seriously? https://t.co/Zyu9zfKu72
— Jon Solomon (@JonSolomonAspen) March 31, 2016