Congrats on a great effort

[nomar]

About Ollie, dude, the guy talks ghetto. That's no way to represent a university. Go to a speech coach.

Go polish your Helms Trophies.

As Inyatkin pointed out earlier, this isn't what I'd call "ghetto":

"We’re not playing for the postseason. We’re playing for the love of UConn. We’re playing for the love of each other. We’re playing for the pride of getting better. They can’t ban us from that. They can ban us from the postseason, they can ban us from the Big East tournament, but they can’t ban us from getting better and loving each other."

Jim Boeheim has never been so eloquent in his entire life. I might not want such a huge whiner who never comes out of the zone coaching my team, but that's just me.

 

[CL82]

About Ollie, dude, the guy talks ghetto. That's no way to represent a university. Go to a speech coach.

Hmmn, you are moving up the douchiness list. I'm kind of unsure whether you are just baiting the board after a tough loss for you or it this is who you are. I really hope that it's the former.

 

[superjohn]

This Ollie can't speak well stuff is complete rubbish.

 

[John]

About Ollie, dude, the guy talks ghetto. That's no way to represent a university. Go to a speech coach.

I'm sure he'll try to fit that into his busy schedule, but right now he's all booked up with WINNING.

 

[Jerry1714]

It was about a couple things. Foremost, Boeheim apparently talked to Katz a couple weeks ago about the Southerland suspension, Boeheim thought the comments (or at least a certain degree of specificity about them) was off the record, and Katz ran a story with more detail than Boeheim thought was appropriate, given current law protecting student privacy.

Beyond that, though, Boeheim and his wife are still carrying a grudge about the aftermath of the Bernie Fine matter. When Boeheim and his wife talked about raising some money for abused children, Katz apparently took a shot at him in a column, which Boeheim felt crossed a line.

To sum up, Andy Katz has burned that bridge.

This sums up Boehiem and what a clown he is.

Boehiem does all he can with the local media, probably had Bernie and his wife service them, in order to keep stories about academic cheating, fights, stealing, and beating up women under wraps.

But when a national reporter does their job, which is REPORTING, he has a temper tantrum like a little b*tch. Same reason he wont schedule real OOC games outside NY, guy needs everything his way and is afraid of a challenge.

Sorry Andy isnt as whipped as the rest of the "journalists" up in the wasteland that is upstate NY.

 

[upstater]

About Ollie, dude, the guy talks ghetto. That's no way to represent a university. Go to a speech coach.

Why do people who dislike blacks even bother watching basketball?

 

[upstater]

Sorry Andy isnt as whipped as the rest of the "journalists" up in the wasteland that is upstate NY.

The truth is that ESPN and its grads defer to Boeheim a lot more than the Cuse Post-Standard does. When Fine was cleared by the investigators, ESPN had a bunch of people weigh in (including Cuse grads) on what a big farce the investigation was, and that they had a ruined a good man's name. The Cuse paper, however, kept with the story and interviewed the DA and chief of Police who both said there was more than enough evidence to indict Fine, and that they absolutely would have had it not been for the statute of limitations. The local newspapers, believe it or not, were much more objective and on top of things.

 

[Kemba Time]

If we're really make last night's game about grammar, maybe Boeheim would like to revise this quote. UConn is an it, not a they, not they've. It. But the guy has only had 37 years on the sideline to get this right.

"UConn has proven they're a good basketball team," Syracuse coach Jim Boeheim said. "They've play hard, they've play together – all year. They made all the big shots in the second half."

 

[Excalibur]

About Ollie, dude, the guy talks ghetto. That's no way to represent a university. Go to a speech coach.

Just to give you a bit of context, I spoke to Ollie a few times the year after he finished playing for UConn. He was on campus a lot (maybe finishing his degree) and playing for the local CBA team. Compared to that guy, the Ollie of today is Winston Churchill. The guy grew up in the most ghetto of ghettos. He's never going to be a perfect speaker.

 

[UConn990411]

About Ollie, dude, the guy talks ghetto. That's no way to represent a university. Go to a speech coach.

Ghetto > Redneck/hicksville Syracuse dialect.

You've really turned into a d***head.

 

[Dove]

This sums up Boehiem and what a clown he is.

Boehiem does all he can with the local media, probably had Bernie and his wife service them, in order to keep stories about academic cheating, fights, stealing, and beating up women under wraps.

But when a national reporter does their job, which is REPORTING, he has a temper tantrum like a little b*tch. Same reason he wont schedule real OOC games outside NY, guy needs everything his way and is afraid of a challenge.

Sorry Andy isnt as whipped as the rest of the "journalists" up in the wasteland that is upstate NY.

I saw the video on Borges' blog. There wasn't a tantrum. He called Katz and idiot and so on like a poindexter would ask the teacher for extra credit.

It starts immediately in this clip...

http://borgesblognhr.blogspot.com/

 

[HuskyAlum012]

I dunno - the grammar crack was pretty douchist. Like let me throw in this sniveling little passive-aggressive dig while they are buttered up. It was almost a good post, but he couldn't quite make it to the last paragraph without tripping up.

There may be a sports parallel here we could use as an analogy. Do we know of a team that tends to have a good run in the early and middle, but stumbles just a few steps from the end?

I almost made a second account just so I could like this post twice. Exactly my thought process after reading the OP.

 

[Husky]

About Ollie, dude, the guy talks ghetto. That's no way to represent a university. Go to a speech coach.

No speech pattern has prestige. Take a linguistics course. African American Vernacular is as legitimate as a Scottish or Irish accent. You lost and your program fails in tournament play every year. That's why they don't bother punishing you for violations. You lose anyway

 

[Scot-e]

Quse fans are one step away from playing banjos on their front porch- closest thing to hay seeds in the BE.

 

[prankster]

It was about a couple things. Foremost, Boeheim apparently talked to Katz a couple weeks ago about the Southerland suspension, Boeheim thought the comments (or at least a certain degree of specificity about them) was off the record, and Katz ran a story with more detail than Boeheim thought was appropriate, given current law protecting student privacy.

If I may....

The problem, then, is that Boeheim disclosed, to a reporter, more information and detail than Boeheim thinks is appropriate, given current law protecting student privacy.

Basically, Boeheim is angry that the confidence that Boeheim, himself, failed to respect in the first place (where Boeheim has both a legal and ethical responsibility to protect such information) was not, in turn, respected by Katz (where Katz has no similar legal or ethical responsibility to protect such information, but, in fact has a professional responsibility to disclose such information).....

And he (Boeheim) is now concerned that the information, that he had inappropriately disclosed, is now "out there". And the finger will likely be pointing back at Boeheim. for having "leaked the information to the press".

 

[John]

Quse fans are one step away from playing banjos on their front porch- closest thing to hay seeds in the BE.

it's like the folk from West Virginny saying the folk from Alerbammer talk funny.

 

[MilliniumPrince]

F-DAMN-CUSE

That is all.

 

[Mike Honcho]

About Ollie, dude, the guy talks ghetto. That's no way to represent a university. Go to a speech coach.

You, sir, are a major league . Pot, meet kettle.

 

[freescooter]

Wow! very impressive performance last night. Reminiscent of some of those classic upsets. In the prediction thread I mentioned the URI slowdown game and the BC game in Calhoun's first season. This one ranks with both of those. A lesser but also similar one was the Stanford game in 1999 when Hamilton was injured. In all of those key players were missing and a shorthanded UConn club upset a more highly regarded opponent. As they say games are won on the court not on paper. Great job.

 

[OkaForPrez]

Wow! very impressive performance last night. Reminiscent of some of those classic upsets. In the prediction thread I mentioned the URI slowdown game and the BC game in Calhoun's first season. This one ranks with both of those. A lesser but also similar one was the Stanford game in 1999 when Hamilton was injured. In all of those key players were missing and a shorthanded UConn club upset a more highly regarded opponent. As they say games are won on the court not on paper. Great job.

Holy crap. If scoot is jazzed you know we're rollin'. No Letdowns on Saturday!

 

[ctchamps]

Holy crap. If scoot is jazzed you know we're rollin'. No Letdowns on Saturday!

Not to be hypercritical but he still didn't give KO the credit, nor did he retract his opinion that KO shouldn't be coaching UConn. But it was far more positive than usual.

 

[Rico444]

About Ollie, dude, the guy talks ghetto. That's no way to represent a university. Go to a speech coach.

Stealing bath robes, cheating, ****ing little boys and then berating the media for reporting on all of it is no way to represent a university, either.

 

[ctchamps]

About Ollie, dude, the guy talks ghetto. That's no way to represent a university. Go to a speech coach.

Seriously that is your take on him and not the adversity he had to overcome to get to his position. And what does this say about your attitude towards your players when they're interviewed?

Speech doesn't demonstrate intelligence otherwise there are some parrots I would elevate as more intelligent than many humans!

 

[Mike Honcho]

Seriously that is your take on him and not the adversity he had to overcome to get to his position. And what does this say about your attitude towards your players when they're interviewed?

Speech doesn't demonstrate intelligence otherwise there are some parrots I would elevate as more intelligent than many humans!

Amen.

Not to mention he did grow up in Crenshaw.

During Ollie's high school years, gang violence near Crenshaw, just a few miles away from "The Jungle," the neighborhood depicted in the 2001 film "Training Day," was at an all-time high. Crime was so widespread at sunset that high school games were often moved to the afternoon, which worked out just fine because many basketball players -- Ollie not included -- doubled as gang affiliates.

"He had friends that I know would have been involved in gang activity if it wasn't for the affiliation they had with Kevin," Tinez says.

Ollie's insatiable love for basketball kept him off the streets, as did his relationship with Dorothy. "I always wanted to make my mother proud," Ollie says.

Read more: http://www.ctpost.com/sports/article/Kevin-Ollie-s-long-journey-3946394.php#ixzz2KvJM4LkM

 

[August_West]

Quse fans are one step away from playing banjos on their front porch- closest thing to hay seeds in the BE.

James southerland shore got a purty mouth


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