Jim Is Somewhat Unhappy.

[UconnDon]

If he were Frank Martin, he'd have been gone from Storrs years ago!

 

[Prezidint]

http://espn.go.com/mens-college-bas...rs-suspend-coach-todd-bozeman-amid-talk-punch

Ouch. Looks like this University is taking Coach on player contact very seriously.

 

[slumdog]

Almost any kind of getting physical with a player, if the media gets hold of it, would gather momentum and eventually JC's forced out. Totally predictable. If anyone here has contact with him, kindly suggest he take a look at it (then duck).

 

[Kitaman]

If it was the incident at the end of the game, I cringed when I saw it. The problem is that it was AD who fouled the guy not DD. Hope the kid isn't fragile because it was not a good thing to see. I know some are saying it was a tap, and nothing of it, but it wasn't one of Calhoun's best moments.

Lets hope it blows away without fuss. But he did hit him in the gut with an angry face.

 

[HuskyHawk]

If it was the incident at the end of the game, I cringed when I saw it. The problem is that it was AD who fouled the guy not DD. Hope the kid isn't fragile because it was not a good thing to see. I know some are saying it was a tap, and nothing of it, but it wasn't one of Calhoun's best moments.

Lets hope it blows away without fuss. But he did hit him in the gut with an angry face.

It's not good either way. Woody Hayes was an old man too (or at least looked like one). Neither he nor the University needs anything else to deal with.

 

[roxyharper]

It's one of those things that doesn't look good because it's not good. It made me extremely uncomfortable because it's not far from an angry reaction that would make him look very, very bad, because it would be very, very bad, in the national media.

It's quite simple - arguing that he's 70 misses the point. Arguing that it wasn't a real punch misses the point.

Striking a player in any fashion whatsoever is unacceptable, and it will be called out if he makes the mistake of doing it with an open camera shot.

Frankly, I think he got lucky. There was a group of players around and it wasn't obvious from the camera angle what exactly he did.

This is the angriest I've seen Calhoun, and he used to get really angry with Stan. He grabbed Stan by the arm once, and that wasn't cool, but at least an arm grab is not a strike.

I really, very much, definitely, hope that he never loses his cool and whacks a kid - we're several years past the point in history where it will be either overlooked or forgotten.


EDIT - 2:02 and 10 second mark of the ESPN3 broadcast. Looked as bad as I recalled it. But not that bad, because you can't actually see the hand - if it was an open hand, not a huge deal. If a closed fist, not so good.

 

[joober jones]

I didn't get to see the game ... is there video anywhere of "the punch"? Right now I have no idea what's going on.

 

[Kitaman]

I didn't get to see the game ... is there video anywhere of "the punch"?

Let's hope not......................................... "Don't want to wake up the kids'.

 

[swami7774]

It's one of those things that doesn't look good because it's not good. It made me extremely uncomfortable because it's not far from an angry reaction that would make him look very, very bad, because it would be very, very bad, in the national media.

It's quite simple - arguing that he's 70 misses the point. Arguing that it wasn't a real punch misses the point.

Striking a player in any fashion whatsoever is unacceptable, and it will be called out if he makes the mistake of doing it with an open camera shot.

Frankly, I think he got lucky. There was a group of players around and it wasn't obvious from the camera angle what exactly he did.

This is the angriest I've seen Calhoun, and he used to get really angry with Stan. He grabbed Stan by the arm once, and that wasn't cool, but at least an arm grab is not a strike.

I really, very much, definitely, hope that he never loses his cool and whacks a kid - we're several years past the point in history where it will be either overlooked or forgotten.


EDIT - 2:02 and 10 second mark of the ESPN3 broadcast. Looked as bad as I recalled it. But not that bad, because you can't actually see the hand - if it was an open hand, not a huge deal. If a closed fist, not so good.

Grow a pair.