FC/OT: LSU Women’s Bball coach Kim Mulkey seems worried about an article about to be published…
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Blindly supporting this coach before the story comes out is as ignorant as believing what the story turns out to be before seeing it.
Bobby Knight was an ******* and a bully. He was always an ******* and a bully. Just because a person chooses to play for a particular doesn’t excuse their treatment by that coach.
I will withhold judgment on this coach because I don’t know her and I don’t know what the story will be.
Good for you! After reading the hit piece, will you feel confident you know her?
I will add it to whatever else I may hear about her. I won’t blindly believe it’s a hit piece just because she’s a coach in the same way that I won’t blindly believe it’s completely true just because the media reported it. You have a pretty strong posting history here of supporting people just because they have the “Coach” title.
Truman and Hoover became close friends and drove together to the dedication of Hoover’s presidential museum. When they got there they had to relieve themselves but the museum was locked. They broke into it to get to the men’s room.
They could have just gone around the corner of the building and pissed in the bushes like normal people.
That ref Teddy. Valentine....still the worst
SOP. As an AD I received many unsigned letters attacking my coaches. They go directly into the circular file.
I'm okay with that characterization. Especially coaches with a sustained record of success. Coaches are mere mortals, like athletes and officials. Only internet warriors are omniscient and omnipotent.
All that you wrote is true. The distraction still sucks for women's college basketball.
Got to know a few D1 WBB coaches in the 82-2000 era. When I was AD, We had 3 girls go full scholarship, Barbara Bootz Georgia, Dolores Bootz Georgia Tech and Jonnah O'Donnell Auburn. Tammy Hohman as well, can't remember the school...Seton Hall I think. One of my best friends Joe Ciampi lost 3 straight NCAA championship finals...he's now if the HOF. It's a rough profession. Lots of pressure and sainthood isn't prevalent.
Because the truth is an absolute defense against a defamation suit. Of course, if you knowingly publish/broadcast lies, you may wind up owing 9 figure damages. Ask Rupert about that.
Mulkey is a public figure. That makes a potential defamation (libel in this case) claim far more difficult to prove. A public figure has to show actual malice, not just negligence.
A valid question to ask: If this were about a male coach would this even be a story?
Believe the writer in question also wrote a not so nice article about Brian Kelly a few years ago. She mentioned that in her statement.
He could dish it out but couldn’t take it. Trait of a bully.
100%. You either kept on kissing Knight’s *** or else you stopped being his friend.
Debatable. Wooden and Coack K certainly 1 & 2. Could also argue Rupp, Williams, Smith, Calhoun as 3. Certainly one of the greatest bullies of all time.
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Yellow journalism is alive and well - the internet has made newspapers obsolete and they have to sensationalize everything to compete with all the others form of instant news so getting it right isn't that important to them as getting it first.
If Knight had 1/10 of the self-discipline that he expected of his players, he would have retired from or died on the bench at Bloomington.
Would have been fun watching him grab a player today. He would be holding pieces of his jaw or knocked out cold.
Typical silliness from you. It’s a shame because you are a good poster in my opinion (in my apparently fallible opinion?) until it comes to anything about a coach. Then it’s just blind faith in the coach.
That head butt nonsense I posted further up in this thread is a great example. That guy should have gotten out of his seat and flattened him.
I have no horse in this race so I could care less but the question I have, after reading what I could find, is: the writer has been chasing Mulkey for 2 years for an interview and she's turned him down every time. Wasnt there some way she could have ended his attempts to contact her?
Right - he gave her two years to comment and address things on the record. She refused and is now lawyering up. Tell me you have something to hide without telling me you have something to hide…
I don’t need to read the article to know she’s a POS, but I am interested to see what they write about her. It likely won’t be enough to get her canned, but it will likely be enough to solidify my opinion of her. When a team consistently has no class, there’s a good chance that the coach has no class (hello Dawn Staley as well).
The article to which Mulkey referred wasn't about Kelly. It was about LSU, it's priorities, how it treats African Americans, and their existence in the Baton Rouge community. Kelly and his fat contract were used as a counterpoint for comparison. There no was discussion of him per se.
Reading Comp a la La Tech.
