NCAA Basketball Review

Syracuse’s Jim Boeheim Shares Secret of Success

February 5th, 2010 Posted in College Basketball News, Syracuse

Jim Boeheim has the Syracuse Orangemen off to a 22-1 start this season at age 65 and looks to have his players poised to make a deep run in the Big Dance this year. Boeheim doesn’t credit his longevity in coaching to a obsessed work-around-the clock approach, but to the balance he’s found between his life outside of basketball and his life within the game. Boeheim told SI’s Paul Daugherty that he watches crime drama shows like CSI and NCIS to relax at night during the season and makes sure he spends time with his family and in the off season he makes sure he sees friends and plays a lot of golf. Often we associate college coaches with the crazy hours they put in all year long and the little time their families get to see them. Boeheim told SI that he’s been able to be on hand for all his daughter’s events as she grew up by not allowing basketball to hinder his ability as a father. In the present day conditions of college sports where you have coaches like Urban Meyer burning out before he hits 50, it makes you wonder if coaches aren’t better off mimicking Boeheim’s approach to the job.