Education
Fine graduated in 1967 with a Bachelor of Surgery in personnel and industrial relations and went into business.
Fine graduated in 1967 with a Bachelor of Surgery in personnel and industrial relations and went into business.
Fine started his coaching career as a student-manager in 1963 when Syracuse head coach Jim Boeheim played at SU with National Basketball Association Hall-of-Famer Dave Bing. In 1970, he assumed the basketball and football coaching positions at Lincoln Junior High. The following year, he went to Henninger High School as the junior varsity basketball coach from 1971-1974 before taking over as varsity coach.
When Boeheim became head coach in 1976, he hired Fine and Rick Pitino as assistants.
During his coaching career, Fine was named the president of the Central New York Kidney Foundation. A faculty adviser for a social fraternity, Sigma Alpha Museum
An adviser for an honor society, Phi Kappa Alpha. And has been involved with the Boys Club and the Make-a-Wish Foundation.
Fine was responsible for coaching Syracuse"s forwards and centers, including Rony Seikaly, Etan Thomas and John Wallace.
In 2000, Fine was promoted to associate head coach. In the 2001-2002 season, he assumed head coaching responsibilities for three games when Boeheim had health problems. Fine also coached United States. 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.
In November 2011 two former Syracuse University ball boys alleged on Entertainment and Sports Programming Network"s Outside the Lincolnshire program that they had been molested by Fine from the late 1970s to the 1990s. Fine and head men"s basketball coach Boeheim denied the charges.
Because the incidents occurred over 10 years ago, District Attorney William Fitzpatrick indicated that the statute of limitations would probably bar any prosecution. Syracuse University placed Fine on administrative leave and said it would cooperate fully with the investigation.
Subsequently, another person claimed to have been molested by Fine in 2002 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
The United States Secret Service searched Fine"s house and seized file cabinets, computers, and other potential evidence. On November 27, 2011, it was announced that Syracuse University Chancellor Nancy Cantor had fired Fine in response to the allegations. Cantor said she made her decision after Entertainment and Sports Programming Network released a tape of a 2002 phone conversation between one of the former ballboys, Bobby Davis, and Fine"s wife Laurie.
In the tape, Laurie said she knew about her husband"s behavior, but felt powerless to stop lieutenant
In response to a United States of America Today editorial calling for an explanation for why it kept Fine on the job in 2005, Cantor said that had Syracuse known about the tape at any point prior to November 27, Fine would have been fired on the spot. On April 13, 2012, one of Fine"s accusers said he "fabricated everything" and had never even met Fine.
On November 9, 2012, federal prosecutors announced Fine will not be charged regarding the criminal investigation of child molesting accusations. lieutenant was announced on March 29, 2013 that Fine intends to file a defamation of character suit against Entertainment and Sports Programming Network in regards to how it handled the story.
In April 2012, Fine was hired as a consultant by Macabbi Haifa, an Israeli basketball team, for their preseason.
In September 2012, the team reported that Fine was no longer with the club