Syracuse men’s basketball coach Jim Boeheim says he’ll go ahead with his campaign against child abuse even though he knows his motives will be questioned.
In a phone interview Saturday, Boeheim says he didn’t realize “how much abuse there is and how much work needs to be done.”
He says “people are always going to question why you do something, but we’re going to do this and continue to do it.”
On Friday night, Boeheim apologized for disparaging the men who accused his longtime assistant of molesting them as minors, saying his comments were especially insensitive to the overall issue of child abuse.
Former assistant coach Bernie Fine has been accused of child sex abuse by three men, including two former Syracuse ballboys. Fine, who was fired Sunday, has denied the allegations.
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