SYRACUSE, N.Y. — Syracuse men’s basketball coach Jim Boeheim said Tuesday that “what happened on my watch” will be revealed once police complete their inquiry into child-molestation accusations against his former longtime assistant.
Asked to comment on Boeheim’s status earlier Tuesday, Syracuse University chancellor Nancy Cantor said: “Coach Boeheim is our coach.”
The assistant coach, Bernie Fine, was fired Sunday.
Also Tuesday, Syracuse Police Chief Frank Fowler said Dennis DuVal, a former Syracuse basketball player who was police chief in 2002, knew of the allegations against Fine.
Fowler said DuVal, who played for the Orange from 1972 to 1974, was aware of former team ballboy Bobby Davis’ accusations in 2002 that Fine sexually abused him starting in 1984. Another ballboy has made a similar claim.
Because Davis said the abuse stopped 12 years earlier, Syracuse Detective Doug Fox told him the statute of limitations had passed, meaning an arrest was not possible. Fox advised his supervisor in the abused-persons unit but didn’t file a formal report.
The detective is still with the department but not in the same unit.
A phone message left with DuVal was not immediately returned.
The allegations by Davis, now 39, surfaced this month.
