Doyel and Boeheim

[Uncle.Ruckus]

Love this tweet from Doyel:

Minutes after a loss in title game, Trey Burke was asked if he's leaving. He said not sure, then said, "thanks for your interest." He's 20.

It's a different question to Burke than it is Boeheim. You know it, Doyel knows it, we all do.

Different enough to warrant Boeheim's reaction?

 

[imjustagirl]

I just wish those of you on here are doing it would stop acting like this was out of character for Boeheim. That he's normally such a great guy, but this one question just rankled him.

 

[H.L. Mencken]

Boeheim has been bullying reporters all season with his fake tough guy bullshirt. Here is an instance where someone gave it back to him a little.

As for the deadline beat hacks, Doyel gave them a lot better anecdote that they'd have gotten without him asking that question.

No one, including Boeheim, was harmed by what occurred. I agree that he wasn't going to get a genuine answer, but you never know. Sometimes a hesitation, a pause, a moment of silence says more than words could.

 

[Norrin Radd]

I just wish those of you on here are doing it would stop acting like this was out of character for Boeheim. That he's normally such a great guy, but this one question just rankled him.

If Doyel had not been there, Boeheim would not have answered one f$#%ing question!

Not ONE!

 

[Alma]

Love this tweet from Doyel:

Minutes after a loss in title game, Trey Burke was asked if he's leaving. He said not sure, then said, "thanks for your interest." He's 20.

It's a different question to Burke than it is Boeheim. You know it, Doyel knows it, we all do.

Different enough to warrant Boeheim's reaction?

Different enough that, if you've said "smooch" to a coach after getting in a big argument with him, you don't drag out to Twitter your petty, juvenile point one night later.

 

[armageddon]

Love this tweet from Doyel:

Minutes after a loss in title game, Trey Burke was asked if he's leaving. He said not sure, then said, "thanks for your interest." He's 20.

It's a different question to Burke than it is Boeheim. You know it, Doyel knows it, we all do.

Different enough to warrant Boeheim's reaction?

Different enough that, if you've said "smooch" to a coach after getting in a big argument with him, you don't drag out to Twitter your petty, juvenile point one night later.

Ironic to see Doyel attempt to tweak Boeheim via Twitter with Burke's comment.

In doing so the columnist merely reaffirmed his maturity level doesn't rise to the level of Burke's.

Burke's 20. Doyel's older. One handles himself with class. The other? Not so much.

 

[Norrin Radd]

Watching it again and knowing Boeheim's past meltdowns . . .

I'm not impressed. There's really nothing special about this one.

 

[armageddon]

Watching it again and knowing Boeheim's past meltdowns . . .

I'm not impressed. There's really nothing special about this one.

His comment to Katz earlier this season was much more personal.

 

[Mizzougrad96]

I just wish those of you on here are doing it would stop acting like this was out of character for Boeheim. That he's normally such a great guy, but this one question just rankled him.

As someone else pointed out, his Katz rant was much worse. I saw him go on a rant after they made the Final Four in 1996 that was a thousand times worse than this one. I wish I remember the name of the writer it was geared at, He was from one of the NY papers and he had long hair, and Boeheim forking shredded him seconds before the cameras came on. If memory serves, he called him "a stupid fork".

This deal with Doyel was no big deal at all.

 

[Alma]

Love this tweet from Doyel:

Minutes after a loss in title game, Trey Burke was asked if he's leaving. He said not sure, then said, "thanks for your interest." He's 20.

It's a different question to Burke than it is Boeheim. You know it, Doyel knows it, we all do.

Different enough to warrant Boeheim's reaction?

Different enough that, if you've said "smooch" to a coach after getting in a big argument with him, you don't drag out to Twitter your petty, juvenile point one night later.

Ironic to see Doyel attempt to tweak Boeheim via Twitter with Burke's comment.

I'm not sure it is ironic. Doyel's revisiting of a poor analogy makes me wonder if his original intent was to make that comparison, along with some of the usual commentary about poor, downtrodden college athletes vs. entitled coaches. Perhaps that's why his retort to Boeheim was so quick in the press conference.

 

[Riptide]

Next time Doyel fires back a retort, I hope he doesn't sound like a scared little kid.

I'm no fan of Boeheim. But talk about the game first. That's the first order of business.

 

[JackS]

Having read Doyel's theory, I could've asked a much better question than he did, although I probably would have tried to ask it outside a press conference setting...

"Coach, a few years ago at Big East media day you were talking about conference realignment and anticipating that Syracuse could be gone from the league within 5 years I believe, but that you wouldn't be around by then. Will you be back next year?"