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Georgetown is still Georgetown. They have got a tremendous name and recognition. They are in a great area and have a great school.
Jim Boeheim / Basketball Coach
Recognition
Tremendous
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I love Charles Barkley, he's a good friend of mine and he's a funny guy. He knows nothing about college basketball. Less than nothing.
Jim Boeheim / Basketball Coach
Funny Guy
Good Friend
Funny Love Good
Charles
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A coach coaches. That's what he does. That's what he's good at. He's not managing people. He manages his players, but that's different.
Jim Boeheim / Basketball Coach
Coaches
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College, our job is to get guys to get better. Work hard, get better and be in position so when your time comes you get to play in the NBA.
Jim Boeheim / Basketball Coach
Nba
Our Time
Work Time Better
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If you look at the terrorist attacks around the world, they're in places where there is no security - a club or a movie theater or wherever.
Jim Boeheim / Basketball Coach
Movie Theater
Terrorist
Attacks
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The thing is, I'm a sports junkie.Everybody knows that. I could watch any of this stuff - track and field... anything - and really enjoy it.
Jim Boeheim / Basketball Coach
Track And Field
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I think the only thing to consider is do you want to try to coach in the NBA and for me it never was an issue. I never really had that desire.
Jim Boeheim / Basketball Coach
Nba
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A lot of coaches get involved in a lot of different things - car dealerships and restaurants and all kinds of things. I've never really done that.
Jim Boeheim / Basketball Coach
Coaches
Different Things
Restaurants
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Syracuse, New York, is like Hawaii for eight months of the year. The other four months, I don't care about the weather because we're playing basketball.
Jim Boeheim / Basketball Coach
Hawaii
Syracuse
Weather
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I'm not trying to make a big deal out of this. It's just the things Donald Trump says are crazy. You can't say those things. You shouldn't say those things.
Jim Boeheim / Basketball Coach
Big Deal
Donald Trump
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To stay in one time zone and play in a great conference - a great all-around conference, but, specifically, a great basketball conference - is a great thing.
Jim Boeheim / Basketball Coach
One Time
Zone
All-Around
Conference
Great Thing
Specifically
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When you take over at Wisconsin, nobody's ever won there, nobody expects you to win and that's when it's really hard to do. And Bo Ryan won there, consistently.
Jim Boeheim / Basketball Coach
Consistently
Wisconsin
Expects
Ryan
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You give hundreds, probably thousands of speeches in this business, but you only get one chance to make an acceptance speech at the Hall of Fame. That's pressure.
Jim Boeheim / Basketball Coach
Acceptance
Hundreds
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If you're analytical, you have to be blunt. That's by definition. You can't analyze something and not be blunt about it. What would you rather hear if not the truth?
Jim Boeheim / Basketball Coach
Blunt
Definitions
Ifs
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I never said I'm unhappy about going to the ACC. I'm unhappy the Big East broke up. That's a completely different thing than saying I'm unhappy about going to the ACC.
Jim Boeheim / Basketball Coach
Broke
Unhappy
Different Thing
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You have to show high school players that fans care about your program, that they're gonna be at the games. I think that's a huge key to success in college basketball.
Jim Boeheim / Basketball Coach
Basketball
College
Fans
Games
High School
Huge
Program
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Every Olympics, they make a big deal out of something - security... traffic... pollution... something - and it really doesn't come true. For me, there's never been a problem.
Jim Boeheim / Basketball Coach
Big Deal
Olympics
Pollution
Traffic
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I don't think we should put a number on how long you should coach or how old you should be. It should be illegal. Go as long as you can do a good job. It shouldn't be an age thing.
Jim Boeheim / Basketball Coach
Good Job
Illegal
Good Age Long
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You've got to understand, every kid in college basketball, if you ask them where they want to play a game, in the NBA or college, they will tell you Madison Square Garden, a huge percentage.
Jim Boeheim / Basketball Coach
Garden
Madison
Nba
Percentage
Square
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The national championship for Syracuse in 2003 will always be the high-water mark for me. That was my alma mater, my team, my players, our fans. That remains the top experience of my basketball life.
Jim Boeheim / Basketball Coach
Championship
Remains
Syracuse
Life Experience Me
Life Experience Always
National Championship
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I never really thought that I was going to get out of coaching ever. In my fifth year, I thought I might get out. You have those thoughts in any job. But I never really, really thought I was going to get out.
Jim Boeheim / Basketball Coach
Fifth
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I grew up in the Big East Conference for 30 years. We were a conference that was nothing. We were a bunch of schools thrown together and within five years we were one of the top two basketball conferences in the country.
Jim Boeheim / Basketball Coach
Basketball
Bunch
East
Five
Thrown
Within
Conference
Schools
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It's not harder to make a couple extra substitutions. That's not hard. You get different things when you make changes, you gain things and you lose things. But overall, if you gain things, that's why you play extra guys.
Jim Boeheim / Basketball Coach
Different Things
Extra
Gain
Overall
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I've seen countless situations where I've been around him where he always does the right thing, 100 percent of the time. Tom Izzo would never do the wrong thing. And anybody that thinks other than that, they don't know Tom Izzo. I know him.
Jim Boeheim / Basketball Coach
Right Thing
Time Always Never
Countless
Wrong Thing
The Right Thing
Tom
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Against our zone, even really good offensive teams take longer than usual to get into their patterns, maybe 30 seconds. So we're locked into playing defense for that long... it's hard to run on offense after you've been hunkering down on D for that long.
Jim Boeheim / Basketball Coach
Defense
Locked
Offense
Patterns
Seconds
Usual
Zone
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No head coach does it by himself. I don't care who the coach is or how great he might be. Mike Krzyzewski is is a great friend of mine and he's a great coach but he has great, great assistant coaches and they bring a lot to the table and that's what it takes.
Jim Boeheim / Basketball Coach
Coaches
Mike
Assistant
Head Coach
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You can lose a coach every once in a while. You really need to keep an athletic director because you need a guy that's there consistently for as long a time period as possible because he's managing everybody. He affects everybody and when he leaves, he affects everybody.
Jim Boeheim / Basketball Coach
Consistently
Guy
Time Keep Long
Affects
Director
Coach
Time Long Keep
Possible
Period
Time Lose Long
Leaves
Lose
Time Period
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I kind of like the idea of just coaching, nothing else. But I just think some coaches are better suited for college than the NBA. I believe I'm one of those guys. I think Tom Izzo is one of those guys. Mike Krzyzewski. I think they found the right jobs and they've stayed with them.
Jim Boeheim / Basketball Coach
Coaches
Mike
Nba
Believe I Believe Better
Stayed
Suited
Tom
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I'm not Joe Paterno. Somebody didn't come and tell me Bernie Fine did something and I'm hiding it. I know nothing. If I saw some reason not to support Bernie, I would not support him. If somebody showed me a reason, proved that reason, I would not support him. But until then, I'll support him until the day I die.
Jim Boeheim / Basketball Coach
Hiding
Saws
Support
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The thing is 3,900 out of 4,000 college basketball players are very happy to have a scholarship. They're happy. They've got a $70,000 scholarship and they've got money in their pocket. It's the other hundred guys and they're all going to make money playing basketball and the top guys are going to make a lot of money.
Jim Boeheim / Basketball Coach
Scholarship
Pocket
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I don't think we should ever compensate players. I think we can do as much as we can for players. The cost of attendance is good. They get more meals now so they can keep their meal money. I think those are all good things and I think more of those things should have been done. But I don't think you can compensate players straight out.
Jim Boeheim / Basketball Coach
Attendance
Good Money Done
Compensate
Meal
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Greensboro's mad at me because I said I'd rather go to New York City for a week. Why would they be mad at me? Are they that parocial. I didn't say Greensboro wasn't a nice place. It's a very nice place. But if I had a choice for a week where I would go and ask somebody in North Carolina where they rather go for a week - Greensboro or New York City?
Jim Boeheim / Basketball Coach
Carolina
New York City
North Carolina
Me City New
Choice
City Me New
North
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