Bernie Fine

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Name = Bernie Fine
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College = Syracuse
Title = Associate head coach
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CoachYears = 1976–present
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Bernie Fine (born December 23, 1945) is an associate head basketball coach for the Syracuse Orange from Brooklyn, New York who has been with the Orange for more than 30 years.

Early Coaching Career

Fine started his coaching career as a student-manager in 1963 when Syracuse head coach Jim Boeheim played at SU with NBA Hall-of-Famer Dave Bing. Fine graduated in 1967 with a B.S. in personnel and industrial relations and went into business. In 1970, he assumed the basketball and football coaching positions at at Lincoln Junior High. The following year, he went to Henninger High School as the junior varsity basketball coach from 1971-74 before taking over as varsity coach. When Boeheim became head coach in 1976, he hired Fine and Rick Pitino as assistants. [http://www.suathletics.com/roster.asp?playerid=1088&sport=176&roster=194]

College Coaching Career

Fine has remained with Syracuse for more than 30 years. During that time, he was named the president of the Central New York Kidney Foundation; a faculty adviser for a social fraternity, Sigma Alpha Mu; an adviser for an honor society, Phi Kappa Alpha and involved with the Boys Club and the Make-a-Wish Foundation. [http://www.cstv.com/sports/m-baskbl/uwire/022206aaz.html]

On the court, Fine has been charged with developing Syracuse's forwards and centers. During his tenure, he's helped develop Rony Seikaly, Etan Thomas and John Wallace. In 2000, Fine was promoted to associate head coach. In the 2001-02 season, he would assume the head coaching responsibilities of Syracuse for three games when Boeheim was forced to miss the games for health reasons. [http://www.suathletics.com/roster.asp?playerid=1088&sport=176&roster=194]

Although Fine has never been a full-time head coach at the college basketball level, he has been linked with several head coaching jobs in the past. In 2006, Fine was rumored to be interviewing for the head coaching job at Florida Atlantic University. The job was eventually taken by former University of North Carolina head coach Matt Doherty. [http://www.cstv.com/sports/m-baskbl/uwire/022206aaz.html]

Away from coaching at Syracuse, Fine coached U.S. Maccabiah team to a silver medal at the 1993 World Maccabiah Games in Israel. In 2002, he participated in The Blackfeet Native Skill-Builder Hoop Clinic, a basketball seminar conducted on the Blackfeet Indian Reservation in Montana. [http://www.suathletics.com/roster.asp?playerid=1088&sport=176&roster=194]

External links

1. [http://www.suathletics.com/roster.asp?playerid=1088&sport=176&roster=194 Bernie Fine Profile @ SUathletics]