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One of the iconic sights of last season was Jim Boeheim absolutely losing it at Duke when CJ Fair was called for a charge at the end of the game (and costing Syracuse any chance of winning too).
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In case you thought he had forgotten in the summer hubbub, well, he hasn't. Talking to reporters about rules changes, Boeheim said this:
"I didn’t think they were changing it much. It’s a hard call. I like the direction they were going because it’s better to get it out of the game by calling blocks on those plays because it’s a guy who isn’t trying to defend anything, isn’t trying to block a shot, he’s just trying to stand in front of somebody. I like the way it was. I like that they usually call blocks. They just forgot in the Duke game to call a block."
His reaction goes down with the great ones, and here are the greatest we can think of in Cameron:
Caveat: we never saw Frank McGuire in Cameron, eithe with UNC or South Carolina, but the 1961 visit was legendary, and Al Featherston told us some time ago about the extraordinary tension between South Carolina and Duke in the late '60s. So he gets grandfathered in.
- Dean Smith pounding the scoreboard in 1984.
- Lefty Driesell kicking a chair.
- Gary Williams getting booted early in the first half.
- Seth Greenberg's first visit, when he was also ejected and made his disdain for the Cameron Crazies clear.
- Jim Valvano never freaked out at Duke but he was memorably entertaining. One year the Crazies told him to sit so he sat - on the court.
They chanted for him to roll over.
After one visit when B.O.G. (long gone now) harassed his bench, he came the next year with a number of student-athletes who doubled as body guards.
Problem solved.
Boeheim's ripping his jacket off like he was going to go Clark Kent on the whole place, though, was especially memorable. The ACC likes to present a staid corporate image but beneath that are decades of resentments and frustrations. It's funny that a guy making his first trip to Cameron somehow tapped into that.