Following his team’s second round loss to Wake Forest in the ACC Tournament on Wednesday, Syracuse coach Jim Boeheim gave an awkward press conference where he wouldn’t formally announce his retirement, while also pointing to a week-old press conference that he joked contained his “retirement speech.”
The whole encounter between Boeheim and reporters on Wednesday was awkward. What was even more awkward was the announcement a couple hours later that Boeheim was out as Syracuse’s head coach after 47 years, and that assistant Adrian Autry would be taking over the position effective immediately.
Former Duke coach Mike Krzyzewski couldn’t help but notice how awkward the timing of the announcement was for a coach that had been at Syracuse for so long.