In his first formal address since the NCAA announced sanctions against his team, Syracuse University head men's basketball coach Jim Boeheim said he will be appealing those that directly affect him.

According to ESPN, Boeheim called the punishment against him "unduly harsh" and confirmed he will appeal them. The NCAA took away 108 wins for games in which the team played with players who should have been ruled ineligible and suspended the coach for the Orange's first nine ACC games next season.

"Although the infractions report does not find that I had personal involvement in any violations of NCAA rules, the Committee on Infractions has asserted that for the past 10 years, I did not promote an atmosphere of compliance within the men's basketball program, and I did not monitor the activities regarding compliance of those within the program," Boeheim said in a prepared statement. "This could not be further from the truth. This is far from a program where student-athletes freely committed academic fraud. I believe the penalty is unduly harsh."

Syracuse Chancellor Kent Syverud released a statement Wednesday saying the school planned on appealing the NCAA's sanctions as a whole, which included the loss of three men's basketball scholarships a year for four years. Syverud also said the school would aid Boeheim in his appeal.

But a major revelation in Wednesday's statement was Boeheim's plan to retire in three years. The coach addressed that Thursday, the Associated Press noted, stating he was going to take that decision one year at a time.

Born in Lyons, N.Y., some 57 miles from Syracuse, Boeheim played guard for the Orange and graduated from the university. After serving as an assistant on the team from 1969 to 1976, he took the helm and never left.

"I love coaching, and you can coach as long as you can be effective. I thought I was effective this year. I don't think I was as good as I would have liked to have been, but I think I was effective," he said. "If I'm not effective at the end of next year, I won't coach after next year. The three-year thing is the outside."