This is why Jim Boeheim is one of the greatest college basketball coaches of all-time: he has balls. Following a miraculous win against the University of Cincinatti on a three-point shot by senior Gerry McNamara, the long-tenured Syracuse University coach responded to rampant criticism that McNamara is the most over-rated player in the Big East. As published in the Syracuse University student paper, the Daily Orange...
"I have to laugh a little bit when our own paper is calling him and our own student newspaper is called him 'overrated,' and they actually listened to a couple of assistant coaches who I guarantee you will never be head coaches if they think Gerry McNamara is overrated. Of course our paper won't print that anyway because somebody said it. Without Gerry McNamara, we wouldn't have won 10 fucking games this year. OK? Not 10. These other guys just aren't ready. They needed him. Without him there, not 10. We wouldn't be here to even have a chance to play this game. And everybody's talking to me and writing to me about Gerry McNamara being overrated? That's the most bullshit thing I've seen in 30 years, and especially because it comes from our people, in our papers. But they quote it from somebody else - an anonymous assistant coach. Let the assistant coach come up to me and say, 'Gerry McNamara is overrated.' I'd like to see one of those guys come up to me and say that. He's been double-teamed in every game this year, and the coaches voted him first-team all-conference. The head coaches, they don't know shit I guess."
Source: The Daily Orange
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