Rants about Rick, but did he ever call for Knight's head at IU? I think not! What a hypocrite!
Screw Dakich!
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Said Rick was a helluva coach and developer of players and Tits McGee not so much.
Was it Dakich who was ranting at at half time about "all the bad stuff that has gone on at UL for the last Five years"
w it
I heard Dakich giving some love to Crum tonight.
Dakich is right. You do not hear Crum mentioned with other top coaches. He was a great coach and very underrated. Not a fan of Dakich but it was nice to hear him speak highly of Crum.
Dakich is right. You do not hear Crum mentioned with other top coaches. He was a great coach and very underrated. Not a fan of Dakich but it was nice to hear him speak highly of Crum.
Honestly, if you take off the red glasses (and I get that we all are biased), you would see that such comments should be expected and are warranted. If the scandal was happening at UK and Dakich said those things about Cal, you would get a headache from shaking your head in agreement. He said some nice things about the Louisville program, including Crum and Pitino.
Dakich usually speaks his mind but he has been favorable to U of L in the past not like the other cronnies like Dykes and Gottlieb, but in all honesty what does Dakich and Greenberg have to go on but what has been put out in the press and media. No matter how you cut it, it sounds damaging. I did like his comments regarding Coach Crum.
So you agree with Dakich and if someone made claims against UK that Cal should be fired even before the investigation is complete and the facts come out? You think that's reasonable?
ESPN seems to take some shots when they think they can get by with it, when it is popular, and helps their ratings. They used unflattering pictures of Pitino (frown on face) and Jurich. They had their pictures and story well prepared in advance.
ESPN did the same thing with Deflate Gate. They didn't even have the facts right. Seems like a lot of people disliked the Patriots and covering the story helped their ratings. Later ESPN comes back and apologizes.
The game needs to be called by the announcers and an editorial need not be given by them during the game.
ESPN did the same thing with Deflate Gate. They didn't even have the facts right. Seems like a lot of people disliked the Patriots and covering the story helped their ratings. Later ESPN comes back and apologizes.
The game needs to be called by the announcers and an editorial need not be given by them during the game.
What is he talking about the last 5 years? Karen Sypher? That is not even related to the school itself but even if I grant him that what is he talking about?
Chris Jones? Never charged. Petrino? Issue didn't happen at UofL, plus.. according to Dakich, it is OK to get fired from a school where issues happened and get a job right away at another school (which I have always thought is dumb because if it is OK for the person to get hired somewhere else why do you have to fire someone from your place, especially if they were not directly involved).
Dakich doesn't even know what happened in this situation but Pitino should be fired because of some claims that have yet to be proven? Laughable.
The glossing over and broad brushing that the media is doing is lazy and annoying.
Chris Jones? Never charged. Petrino? Issue didn't happen at UofL, plus.. according to Dakich, it is OK to get fired from a school where issues happened and get a job right away at another school (which I have always thought is dumb because if it is OK for the person to get hired somewhere else why do you have to fire someone from your place, especially if they were not directly involved).
Dakich doesn't even know what happened in this situation but Pitino should be fired because of some claims that have yet to be proven? Laughable.
The glossing over and broad brushing that the media is doing is lazy and annoying.
The whole time he was ranting all I kept thinking was "Lets wait until the investigation is done before judging". But in hindsight, I think his point was to let RP go even if it turns out he was not involved. Thats two scandals since he has been here, one of which he was definitely involved. But he did say some very nice things about Crum.
Cuz - I am L1C4 for life but I think what Dakich is saying is that as a AD for Louisville, how do you seemingly have to deal with these issues, not small ones either year after year. Doesn't matter that jones was not found guilty, he was dismissed from the team and who knows how the season would have played out? As a sportswriter or analyst, you can't dispute or ignore that there is an NCAA investigation or a grand jury going on right now, that's fact. What can we say that is absolutely true that is positive and not hearsay. Right now the best we can do is "I didn't know about it". In dakich's opinion and a lot of other people, it is hard to stand behind that as an AD. Your program is taking hit after hit in the media. Thankfully we have Jurich and nobody else.
I agree that's how people generally see things but I am saying I do not agree with it. If you gloss over things, like the media does, then things are happening all the time but when you look at specifics it is not. Why should things that are reported but is found to be not true count against Pitino? Just because it was reported in the media? That's bull crap.
I don't disagree with you but to put this to even more of an extreme example and comparison, look at the OJ trial (I said extreme). He was found not guilty right but all the media hype whether right or wrong pretty much had people believing one way or other. Who came out of that unscathed? It certainly wasn't OJ
The biggest problem I had was the fact that he lumped in Karen Sypher. How many times does it have to be said? RICK WAS BEING EXTORTED. He was the victim. So is he to punished for being extorted by someone and taking it to the Fed's? That's probably the dumbest thing I've heard.
The issue is really more ESPN than Dakich. I have no problem with them addressing the scandal. The problem is they didn't present the whole picture. In all their prep meetings they discuss what is going to be discussed. They created all the charts and information concerning the scandal. They choose to leave out the fact that several people have filed lawsuits saying the book wasn't true. That is not good journalism. The question is why leave that out?
Dakich is just giving his opinion but with the setup not including all the facts it made it appear the scandal is 100 percent true. If the other facts were included I think his opinion may have been a little different.
ESPN needs to quit trying to create news. The whole Les Miles issue was created by ESPN. They even had a ticker "Breaking news Les Miles hints this is his last game" that isn't breaking news. News would be he said this is his last game. Then it is the LSU administration fault because the media ended up being wrong. Maybe they were going to fire him but it isn't news until he is fired!
Dakich is just giving his opinion but with the setup not including all the facts it made it appear the scandal is 100 percent true. If the other facts were included I think his opinion may have been a little different.
ESPN needs to quit trying to create news. The whole Les Miles issue was created by ESPN. They even had a ticker "Breaking news Les Miles hints this is his last game" that isn't breaking news. News would be he said this is his last game. Then it is the LSU administration fault because the media ended up being wrong. Maybe they were going to fire him but it isn't news until he is fired!
It's not extreme. I get the comparison. But the difference is that the public had access to all the information during the OJ trial. Enough to make an informed decision.
We don't even know "the gist" of what is happening at UofL. Different people involved are claiming different things. The media stories are so one sided against the school and Pitino. Crawford is the only one who has reported this from different angles.
I think it is lazy reporting. All about ratings and site clicks.
I want to be clear that we should be free of public judging. I understand things look bad. I just think they could simply report things as they are without creating their own narrative and using all the facts.. not just give a glossed over lazy report. Those help add to the negative public opinion.
But given those same lines before the OJ trial nearly 100% thought he was guilty (I still do). The facts haven't come to trial yet. As far as Sypher is concerned that was a personal morality issue and definitely a mistake made by CRP. People are reluctant to forgive him for that if they think he let something like this occur on campus. It's not even a basketball issue except that as a coach mentoring young adults, is this the example you want to be perceived as? I am not judging CRP, only one can do that, but I would say that in most cases you want to separate yourself from that kind of scrutiny. Time to get off soapbox.
No. The Sypher issue is a bad mark and Pitino (and UofL) will continue to be hammered for it as long as he is here. He did it. I don't like it but I expect it.
The Powell situation is different. I am not saying we should be free from scrutiny but someone making claims should give a reporting agency the right to say whatever easy lazy reporting thing they want. He said "over the last 5 years" as if we are having issues monthly. There are four things I can think of and one (Petrino) didn't even happen here and one (Jones) was never charged. So what is Dakich talking about specifically? He won't get specific because it's easier to lump it all together, whether anything is true or false. So they are not just reporting the narrative, they are creating it.
In short there is enough out there to bash us on without adding to it.
I know where you are coming from but look at this perspective. My sister and her husband live in Oregon and they came in for thanksgiving. They are not basketball fans but lived in Lexington for a couple of years. The first thing they asked me what did Pitino do this time? So it is not just the so called informed sports people it's everybody.
I expect other fans bases and even the casual person to bash us.
I think the media should be more responsible. They have the ability to make people bash us more or less. If they focused (I am not saying they should, I am just giving an example) more on the inconsistencies with Powell (which I don't think ESPN has mentioned at all) then people would be less likely to ask "what did Pitino do this time?" And more likely to ask "what's going on with that hooker?"
I think the media should be more responsible. They have the ability to make people bash us more or less. If they focused (I am not saying they should, I am just giving an example) more on the inconsistencies with Powell (which I don't think ESPN has mentioned at all) then people would be less likely to ask "what did Pitino do this time?" And more likely to ask "what's going on with that hooker?"
Hence, wherein lies the problem. Nobody knows the "hooker's" name and probably not many people outside Louisville can recall Sypher's name but most do know the name Pitino.
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