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Syracuse Basketball Has Succession Plan in Place When Jim Boeheim Retires

The Hall of Fame head coach announced this during a recent radio appearance.
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Syracuse Basketball Has Succession Plan in Place When Jim Boeheim Retires
Syracuse Basketball Has Succession Plan in Place When Jim Boeheim Retires

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Syracuse basketball head coach Jim Boeheim called into the On The Block program, hosted by Brent Axe, on ESPN Radio Wednesday afternoon and dropped some significant news. There is a succession plan in place for Jim Boeheim when he elects to end his Hall of Fame career. While Boeheim said he knows when he is going to retire, but will not release details of that, nor the plan.

“I’m not going to tell you or anybody when this is going to be,” Boeheim said on the show. “We have a plan in place. A good plan. An ironclad plan. It’s not my decision. I’m not naming the coach like people say all the time.”

That is certainly a significant note as it was not previously publicly known that such a plan was in place nor that coach Boeheim had a timeframe in mind or set on when he will step away. Whether or not he goes the Coach K route and announces before a season that it will be his last remains to be seen. We know, however, that he will coach Syracuse next season. He was asked about that following the Orange’s loss to Duke on Saturday.

“You don’t need to ask this,” Boeheim said in the postgame press conference. “This has been asked and answered 26,000 times. Every press conference I gave in the beginning of the year is ‘I have no intentions of not coaching.’ I’ve said it 30 times. Because we’re having a bad year, you want me to quit? I don’t quit because we’re having a bad year.

"I've told every recruit, we have a pretty good recruit here today, I've told every one of them I'll be coaching next year. So I don't know what you need me to do or say." 

Years ago, Syracuse announced longtime assistant Mike Hopkins as the Coach in Waiting. However, before it was time for him to takeover the program, he departed to take the head coaching job at Washington where he has been ever since. 

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Title: Publisher All Syracuse Education: Roberts Wesleyan College Location: Syracuse, New York Expertise: Syracuse basketball, football and recruiting.  EXPERIENCE Mike McAllister has been covering Syracuse basketball, football and recruiting for more than a decade. Mike's career started with his own free blog as a way to vent following sporting events. Shortly thereafter, a network of basketball sites called Coast 2 Coast Hoops asked him to run their Syracuse site. That site was called Nation of Orange, and Mike quickly established it as a go-to for Syracuse fans.  After running Nation of Orange for several months, a position with the Syracuse site on the Scout network became available. After one year as the recruiting expert with Cuse Nation, he was named the publisher. Mike oversaw the transition from Scout to 247Sports, and ran the site on that network for years.  Presented with the opportunity to join one of the biggest names in the sports journalism industry, Sports Illustrated, Mike jumped at the chance. All Syracuse was started from scratch by Mike and the Fan Nation team. It has now become a staple for Orange fans of various sports.  Mike has broken news on recruiting, Syracuse basketball and football team information and has established himself as the top recruiting inside in the market. He has appeared on local radio shows, television broadcasts, national radio shows and much more. Mr. McAllister has a Bachelor of Science Degree in Accounting and Information Management from Roberts Wesleyan College. 

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