Post by BleedingOrange on Mar 1, 2011 20:27:24 GMT -5
Check out the latest dis to Tim Floyd and C-USA as a whole, from ESPN's Andy Katz:
espn.go.com/mens-college-basketball/blog/_/name/katz_andy/id/6158471/c-usa-fails-send-strong-message
It is this type of uninformed rush to judgment that explains why everyone believes C-USA is a one-team conference come tournament time. I sincerely doubt Katz did any investigating AT ALL into the matter of Floyd's ejection. If he had, he would have seen the huge disparity in free throws in that game, and surmised that the officiating was less than stellar. He would have seen that Floyd has not gotten so much as a warning from the refs all year, much less a technical, until one particular ref had a bad night and went on a power trip. Finally, he would have taken into consideration the fact that Floyd got teed up for a COACHING BOX VIOLATION, which is kind of like calling a carry on a ball handler; it happens on every single possession of every single game, but they look the other way unless it is simply blatant. Coaches at all levels of the game wander out of the box CONSTANTLY, so this ref obviously just had it in for Floyd when he blew the whistle (and then didn't have the decency to come to the bench and discuss the matter, instead throwing him out of the game).
Mr. Katz wasn't at that ECU game. He didn't watch it or listen to it on the radio. He didn't see the horrific officiating. He didn't see the coaching box infraction or the discussion that followed. He didn't see the mysterious circumstances surrounding assistant Phil Johnson's ejection mere seconds after Floyd was tossed. Andy freaking Katz didn't see or hear SHIT except the aftermath, any more than any one of us UTEP fans did.
The difference is, we aren't ego-maniacal sports writers. We looked into the game and the stats, heard both sides of the story, and THEN formed our opinions. Katz simply used his status as an "expert" writing for the most powerful entity in sports media to smear our coach, our team, and our conference without a shred of integrity or a grain of unbiased truth.
Who is the most despicable one in this scenario? The righteously pissed of coach, the understandingly lenient conference commissioner, or the irresponsible, mud-slinging journalist? I certainly have my opinion....
espn.go.com/mens-college-basketball/blog/_/name/katz_andy/id/6158471/c-usa-fails-send-strong-message
It is this type of uninformed rush to judgment that explains why everyone believes C-USA is a one-team conference come tournament time. I sincerely doubt Katz did any investigating AT ALL into the matter of Floyd's ejection. If he had, he would have seen the huge disparity in free throws in that game, and surmised that the officiating was less than stellar. He would have seen that Floyd has not gotten so much as a warning from the refs all year, much less a technical, until one particular ref had a bad night and went on a power trip. Finally, he would have taken into consideration the fact that Floyd got teed up for a COACHING BOX VIOLATION, which is kind of like calling a carry on a ball handler; it happens on every single possession of every single game, but they look the other way unless it is simply blatant. Coaches at all levels of the game wander out of the box CONSTANTLY, so this ref obviously just had it in for Floyd when he blew the whistle (and then didn't have the decency to come to the bench and discuss the matter, instead throwing him out of the game).
Mr. Katz wasn't at that ECU game. He didn't watch it or listen to it on the radio. He didn't see the horrific officiating. He didn't see the coaching box infraction or the discussion that followed. He didn't see the mysterious circumstances surrounding assistant Phil Johnson's ejection mere seconds after Floyd was tossed. Andy freaking Katz didn't see or hear SHIT except the aftermath, any more than any one of us UTEP fans did.
The difference is, we aren't ego-maniacal sports writers. We looked into the game and the stats, heard both sides of the story, and THEN formed our opinions. Katz simply used his status as an "expert" writing for the most powerful entity in sports media to smear our coach, our team, and our conference without a shred of integrity or a grain of unbiased truth.
Who is the most despicable one in this scenario? The righteously pissed of coach, the understandingly lenient conference commissioner, or the irresponsible, mud-slinging journalist? I certainly have my opinion....