The pressure used to eat away at Boeheim, who would sit up long after games and dissect the wrongs and rights of a particular performance by his team. He was eager to prove his detractors wrong, to show them. As years pass, so do neuroses. In the fall of 1997 he married a woman, Juli Greene, more than 20 years younger. He also has a teenage daughter from a previous marriage.
Basketball is still important.
But so are bedtime stories, toy stores, Nickelodeon, tooth fairies and Easter bunnies. Boeheim said he puts as much effort as he ever did into winning basketball games, but perspective has helped him overcome the tunnel vision that conflicts so many coaches. And I think I'm able to separate those two things. Life changes and you go through a lot. Boeheim realizes he cannot change the minds of the people who already have theirs made up about him.