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re: So sick of the ESPN hypocrisy
Posted on 4/3/13 at 9:40 am to Eighteen
Posted on 4/3/13 at 9:40 am to Eighteen
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How many players have transferred from just the LSU basketball team in the past 3 years? I think its even more than 5
Good point. But i would think it would raise eyeballs knowing what we now know...doesn't seem like it's good for the program.
And it's 5 over the past year...not 3.
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Posted on 4/3/13 at 9:41 am to madcap
frick ESPN they worship Bobby knight but want this dude's head. If North Korea is going to bomb us I hope it hits Espn's Headquarters in Bristol.
Posted on 4/3/13 at 9:42 am to lsuhunt555
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I know it's easy for everyone to say "dont watch it" or "turn the channel". And yes, you are 100% correct. But here is my problem, as a warm blooded american male I am drawn to sports. I would like to have a network that I could watch that would allow me to be entertained by sports like content. Instead I have to consciously avoid it so I dont break my TV.
I stopped watching ESPN other than live sporting events when they put Bama into the title game. I realize that it is biased of me to say thats when I stopped, but that was when I honestly realized they are nothing more than a propaganda machine that WILL get their way. Again, I am fully for "not watching", but I find it absurd that a man can't watch a network and enjoy sports related content because the people in charge run the network like MTV. frick ESPN, frick the people in charge and frick 99% of the people that work there.
Every bit of this!
Posted on 4/3/13 at 9:42 am to Zamoro10
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They are really struggling to condone and separate Bob Knight as ESPN employee.
Jay Bilas was stumbling and mumbling on Cowherd and saying...
Bob Knight's situation is total different...and a lot of coaches could get in trouble for yelling and raising their voice and that was just one disgruntled player Neil Reid who tragically passed away and Knight was fired...but he was trying to get the best out of his players. I don't see Rice doing that.
Thanks for this. This is really my main point of this thread. HYPOCRISY!!! Bobby Knight's situation is totally different???? GTFO!!!
Posted on 4/3/13 at 9:43 am to Zamoro10
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Even this morning Golic said, I'd have my son play for Bobby Knight in a heartbeat but I'd never let him go near Mike Rice...as if Rice were Sandusky and Knight a saint.
Yet he is fine with letting his son play for that saint Brian Kelly
Posted on 4/3/13 at 9:44 am to Choupique19
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Bobby Knight's situation is totally different????
Bingo. They have to see Knight, so of course they cant talk shite about him. Mike Rice....meh...frick that guy.
Posted on 4/3/13 at 9:45 am to Choupique19
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I hear this term used a good bit. Is this true because of things like this in the past were never videoed or broadcast publically, or is it because people knew these things happened in the past but just considered it part of life?
I guess I'm asking if 30 years ago, people knew this type of activity was happenening at a college basketball practice, would they demand that a coach be fired?
30 years ago of course. shite Bob Knight got away with it for decades because people were different 30 years ago. You can't say or do half the things today that you could have 30 years ago. shite, you can't even call someone black in public anymore and not get fired or reprimanded. You have to call them african american. Let me be clear. I am not offended, nor am I upset at what the guy did other than the physical stuff. I am just saying you can't do it anymore and expect to not get fired.
Posted on 4/3/13 at 9:45 am to craigbiggio
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Yet he is fine with letting his son play for that saint Brian Kelly
They prop up guys like Kelly and Saban and say they are "no non sense coaches" but ruin this guys life.
Posted on 4/3/13 at 9:48 am to Choupique19
yeah, does anyone really believe Reid was the only player in Knight's history of coaching that he physically and forcibly laid his hands on?
ESPN hired and currently promotes a coach very similar to the one they just campaigned to get fired from a University.
But you know, Knight won - he was just trying to get the best out of his players...according to ESPN Rice is a sadist...that's why he's in coaching.
ESPN hired and currently promotes a coach very similar to the one they just campaigned to get fired from a University.
But you know, Knight won - he was just trying to get the best out of his players...according to ESPN Rice is a sadist...that's why he's in coaching.
Posted on 4/3/13 at 9:52 am to Zamoro10
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Knight won - he was just trying to get the best out of his players
Winning cures everything.. seriously though ESPN 
Posted on 4/3/13 at 9:54 am to goldenbadger08
Mike Rice was 16-38 in Big East conference play... i daresay if he was 38-16, we don't have a tape and he's still the coach.
maybe he had a buyout that was determined null and void by the tape?
maybe he had a buyout that was determined null and void by the tape?
Posted on 4/3/13 at 9:58 am to craigbiggio
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Yet he is fine with letting his son play for that saint Brian Kelly
It's not like the Rutgers coach sent a kid up on a tower to film practice in high winds and the kid died from a fall. It's not like the Rutgers coach covered up a rape scandal by his players in which the victim committed suicide.
That's the kind of stand up guy that Mike Golic wants his boys playing for.
Posted on 4/3/13 at 10:02 am to lsuhunt555
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They prop up guys like Kelly and Saban and say they are "no non sense coaches" but ruin this guys life.
10 bucks says Jimmy Sexton is not Mike Rice's agent.
Posted on 4/3/13 at 10:07 am to Choupique19
They are right. Bob Knights situation was different. He was much worse verbally. Bob Knights problem wasn't what he was doing, it was Miles Brand. Miles Brand wanted to fire knight because he was a politician, and wanted to be president of the NCAA. What better way to end up president than to take on the devil himself and run him out of town.
Posted on 4/3/13 at 10:08 am to Choupique19
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That's the kind of stand up guy that Mike Golic wants his boys playing for.
You know what other kids want to play for Brian Kelly? Guys who have fake dead twitter girlfriends to gain sympathy and Heisman publicity, and guys who get stupid drunk at Spring Break and fall to their death off the balcony.
And Gunner Kiel. Sort of.
Hell of a program he's running there.
Posted on 4/3/13 at 10:09 am to lsutigers1992
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You know what other kids want to play for Brian Kelly? Guys who have fake dead twitter girlfriends to gain sympathy and Heisman publicity, and guys who get stupid drunk at Spring Break and fall to their death off the balcony.
And Gunner Kiel. Sort of.
Hell of a program he's running there.
You almost sound a lil jelly
Posted on 4/3/13 at 10:13 am to lsutigers1992
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And Gunner Kiel. Sort of.
Should transfer to play basketball at Rutgers. Nobody with a chest that small could get hit by a basketball.
Posted on 4/3/13 at 10:14 am to Choupique19
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So sick of the ESPN hypocrisy
Still patiently waiting for an official apology for WireTappingGate.....
Posted on 4/3/13 at 10:14 am to Kracka
Damn straight I'm jelly. I wish I could beat a .500 USC team and need a miracle to come back to beat Pitt and still play for the national championship.
Posted on 4/3/13 at 10:20 am to Choupique19
quote:I really would like to hear his take. ESPN should interview him on the subject.
Or Bobby Knight
Absolutely
FWIW, I don't find anything inconsistent about ESPN reporting this story, having personalities call for the coach's firing, and then employing someone like Knight to commentate on basketball.
Had ESPN hired Knight to coach college or hs basketball, that would be hypocritical.
Also, I don't like the way this story was leaked (to garner support for a lawsuit or because the school didn't cave to the blackmail of a disgruntled former employee) and I don't like how the lines blur at ESPN (and essentially all journalism these days) between reporting news and commentary/creating news.
Lastly, I have no sympathy for the coach. He made his bed through his own clearly inappropriate actions. The fact that the ESPN machine forced the firing bothers me a bit, but creates in me no sympathy for the coach.
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