Is the coaching end near for Jim Boeheim after humiliating loss to Georgia Tech?

Sometimes there are moments and games at the end of a great coach’s career where it just feels like the end.

When Bobby Bowden Florida State lost 30-0 at home to Wake Forest in 2006, that really felt like the end of the Bowden era at FSU. Bobby Bowden didn’t retire until 2009, but that game sure felt like the end.

Remember the 0-0 game in regulation with Virginia Tech and Wake Forest, that ended in a 6-3 win for Deacs in 2 OT? That was Wake Forest’s only ACC win of the year. Yep, you knew the end was near for the legendary Frank Beamer.

How about one more… Roy Williams holder of 3 National Titles at North Carolina. Remember the 81-53 debacles of a loss to Syracuse in the ACCT? Williams was gone at the end of the next season.

Oddly enough Jim Boeheim was the coach of Syracuse then, and he just suffered his own this looks close to the end of a career loss.

Playing at home to a Georgia Tech team that was 4-14 in the ACC, and hadn’t won a road ACC game all year, Syracuse got humiliated on their home floor 96-76. It wasn’t that close as Georgia Tech only scored 2 points in the final 3 1/2 minutes. Georgia Tech made a whopping 18 3-pointers and shot 52% from the field and 45% from 3-point range.

You shouldn’t take anything away from Georgia Tech. A team with nothing to play for except pride played an exceptionally high-energy game, and that’s the point.

Syracuse with at least NIT aspirations looked lifeless. They looked lifeless on the defensive end and only slightly less so on the offensive end. Since beating NC State at home on February 14, where you thought Syracuse might have a run in them, they’ve lost by 22, 18, 17, and 20.

Syracuse hasn’t had an outright winning record in the ACC since the 2018-2019 season.

Prominent Syracuse blog NunesMagician called it a downward spiral, and the game against Georgia Tech might have been rock bottom.

Everything about the Syracuse program feels stale, and it sure doesn’t feel like Boeheim is the coach that can revitalize the program any longer.

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