Jim Boeheim would prefer you not to mention Rick Pitino

Except the dog-piling part. JB’s fault for harping on it (and them). A little childish.

That was good stuff.

Don’t judge on a snapshot. It seems like he’s dealing with a pretty reactionary press corps up there.. I think we benefit sometimes in the fact that our columnists write pretty evenly about UK and U of L, so there’s enough positive stuff to fill columns every week. I feel like college teams who are the only ones getting written about in their area tend to get hit harder by writers who are having to stretch for material.

There were certain comments made directly to the media that were uncalled for. Although I would like to read what they wrote to see if any of his complaints were at all justified

He asked “Donna” (whom he’d earlier asked for stats as you would a department employee) if she knew his record against Beilein. When she didn’t, he accused her of not doing her job, and said “that’s the way they do it around here.”

Even if she was a reporter, though, and not a department employee, I still thought it was in bad taste. I don’t see why it would be anyone else’s job to know his record against a coach whom he has coached against in years.

JB brought it up himself. Which makes this a bit worse than if someone actually brought it up in the presser.

Obviously a lot chatter over the last two days via print and talk show radio in the Syracuse area has had it’s toll on him.

He mentions Pitino a few times, but the first question about Pitino comes at 6:43. Boeheim brushes the question off and changes the subject.

He’ll be blogging his balls off for big bucks, no longer concerned with the gnomes and trolls of CC.

I don’t know what he said to warrant the tech, but I don’t think he deserved it cause he already got screwed