The College Basketball Post

[winstondon]

yea...sorta crazy

i knew he was going to miss

edit again

ultimate fail for the freshman

 

[lazy b]

Damn, Chris tore his ACL?

My brother played for Rice until this year. He regrets going there altogether because it's always stacked. He played Gauchos with all of them too.

 

[kickzlikekarateflickz]

cant wait for stephen curry to beat up on Oklahoma tonight

 

[wings90]

I knew he was going to miss the first. The intentional miss was good.

 

[ValarMorghulis]

Wings you think we should start a UT basketball thread...... Allen made a georgetown thread

 

[messiahchild]

I see after a one-year hiatus from D-1 basketball, Unibrow had 16 and 7 against Mansfield...I guess you have to get in where u fit in

 

[vabigpoppa]

big south at 2pm

cant wait to check out seth curry, let the hypemachine begin.

 

[philballa09]

Originally Posted by VABigPoppa

big south at 2pm

cant wait to check out seth curry, let the hype machine begin.

 

[DCAllAfrican]

Originally Posted by Lazy B

Damn, Chris tore his ACL?

My brother played for Rice until this year. He regrets going there altogether because it's always stacked. He played Gauchos with all of them too.

Chris who? What are yall watching........

 

[yungmatt]

Originally Posted by DCAllAmerican

Originally Posted by Lazy B

Damn, Chris tore his ACL?

My brother played for Rice until this year. He regrets going there altogether because it's always stacked. He played Gauchos with all of them too.

Chris who? What are yall watching........

NY high school ball

 

[ThaxbyChamblis]

^ Chris Fouch, He commited to Drexel and went to Rice

 

[N41D]

Originally Posted by KickzLikeKarateFlickz

cant wait for stephen curry to beat up on Oklahoma tonight

Willie lockin that dude down.

 

[i nasmatic i]

What time is the Davidson/Oklahoma game tonight?

 

[worldbeefreeg]

Originally Posted by VABigPoppa

big south at 2pm

cant wait to check out seth curry, let the hype machine begin.

It's so funny that he goes to Liberty because as a school that is about as far away as you can get from Davidson.

 

[ricardo malta]

Willie lockin that dude down.

I HIGHLY doubt that. I can almost guarantee Willie gets overly excited to be matched up against Curry and gets buckets upon buckets dumped on hishead for overplaying him.

It's so funny that he goes to Liberty because as a school that is about as far away as you can get from Davidson.
How is VA considered far from NC? They're next door neighbors

 

[worldbeefreeg]

Originally Posted by Ricardo Malta

Willie lockin that dude down.

I HIGHLY doubt that. I can almost guarantee Willie gets overly excited to be matched up against Curry and gets buckets upon buckets dumped on his head for overplaying him.

It's so funny that he goes to Liberty because as a school that is about as far away as you can get from Davidson.
How is VA considered far from NC? They're next door neighbors

I meant far away in the type of school. Davidson is a small liberal arts school, while liberty is a crazy right wing institution. Let's just say thestudent bodies at those two school's couldn't be more different.

 

[allen3xis]

I'd get right up in Steph's face and pressure him full court. See if he can handle it... Hopefully being outa ACC country

...they'll let Oklahoma actually be physical against "Cinderella"

 

[philballa09]

can these women stop fouling

this game is gonna carry over thebeginning of the LU game

 

[craftsy21]

Marc Birmingham, AL: What are your thoughts on UAB and Arizona tonight? Do Vaden and Delaney pull the upset?

SportsNation Andy Katz: (1:04 PM ET ) I really wouldn't term it an upset.
Paul Delaney III and Robert Vaden are better than what Arizona has on the perimeter. The key will be can they defend not just Chase Budinger but keep JordanHill off the boards. I'll predict a UAB win.




Yikes.

I don't disagree, but it's still weird to see how the mighty have fallen.

 

[allen3xis]

Was a fan of him with Manhattan...not at all anymore. He won't make it through the year.

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Zagoria: Gonzo being Gonzo

Excitable coach is, well, excited

By Adam Zagoria / SNY.tv

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[/td] [/tr][tr][td]Bobby Gonzalez has not been afraid to ruffle some feathers during his time as head coach at Seton Hall. (AP)[/td] [/tr][/table]
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NEWARK, N..J. -- Gonzo Being Gonzo.
It's kind of like Manny Being Manny.

Except Manny Ramirez just loafed around a baseball field.

Seton Hall coach Bobby "Gonzo" Gonzalez is openly threatening to extinguish the free press unless it bends under his dictatorial will.

Twice in recent days Gonzalez has openly threatened to cut off this reporter and SNY from covering his team because of comments I made during a recent interview with WSOU, Seton Hall's student radio station, the full transcript of which is available on my blog for anyone to read.

Gonzo made these threats once in an expletive-filled, three-way phone call with one of his assistants last Friday, and a second time in front of several Seton Hall staff members in a hallway at the Prudential Center after the Pirates beat Columbia on Sunday.

"Who the f--- are you?" Gonzalez screamed into the phone at me last week, with his assistant on the line. "Who the f--- do you think you are? I'll cut you off. I'll cut you off from my players." He also said he would somehow find a way to cut me off from the AAU coaches whose players consider Seton Hall.

That same scene was essentially repeated after the Columbia game with Gonzalez threatening to cut off SNY, the official home of the Big East Conference, with several staff members looking on.

But it's par for the course for Gonzo. He has also verbally abused and threatened my colleagues at SNY as well as writers from ESPN.com, SI.com, The Star-Ledger and the Courier News.

And that doesn't even cover what he says openly about The New York Post, which he tells everyone has an "agenda."

An agenda? No one's out to get Gonzo.

We're simply reporting what's going on around the team.

He blames the media, the other coaches and sometimes even his own hardworking assistants and players for his recruiting situation.

Twice I asked Gonzalez -- once during his expletive-laced phone call and again after the Columbia game -- if he could name a single thing I wrote that was inaccurate or untrue.

He couldn't. He doesn't care about truth and accuracy.

He cares about who is toeing his party line on recruiting.

He muttered the name of a guard at Seton Hall Prep in New Jersey in reference to something I reported last year. The head coach at Seton Hall Prep said on the record that Gonzalez had never been to his gym during his tenure at Seton Hall.

Recruiting is all about people skills, and maybe that's as far as you have look to explain Seton Hall's situation.

Here are the facts, the ones Gonzo can't --and won't -- possibly dispute when he's cursing out journalists.

Gonzalez has landed several impact recruits in Jeremy Hazell, Eugene Harvey and Jordan Theodore. He has also brought in talented transfers Robert "Stix" Mitchell, Herb Pope and Keon Lawrence. Mitchell is playing this year after sitting out and Lawrence is hoping for an NCAA waiver that would allow him to play later this year. Pope has already been denied such a waiver by the NCAA -- twice.

Yet Seton Hall is the only team in the 16-team Big East without a single recruit signed for the fall.

Seton Hall has eight eligible players at this point pending the NCAA's decision on Melvyn Oliver.

One of his recruits, Michael Glover, recently withdrew from school after a failed lawsuit against the NCAA and the Big East failed to make him eligible.

Since Gonzalez has come to the school, three players have transferred in and three have transferred out. Several others never made it to campus.

"It's almost as if the Pirates ... should have a lawyer on the end of their bench instead of a priest," Roger Rubin of the Daily News wrote the other day.

Three key potential Seton Hall targets for 2009 -- Arsalan Kazemi (Rice), Karron Johnson (Oklahoma State) and Dominic Cheek (undecided) -- all opted to say thanks, but no thanks. Kazemi felt unduly pressured to commit during his visit to Seton Hall, and ultimately said no. A St. Anthony coach said Cheek wasn't comfortable with the "situation" at Seton Hall.

"I know that a lot of the attention we get right now isn't for the best reasons," Gonzalez told the Daily News. "I know that's going to change whenever all our players are able to play. I know we're knocking on the door of being a player in this conference."

When Gonzo isn't blaming the media, he's not above taking shots at referees, opposing coaches or even his own players.

Last year Big East Commissioner Mike Tranghese said he was "embarrassed" with Gonzalez's behavior in the season finale against Rutgers. Gonzalez openly criticized a referee, and will serve a one-game, school-imposed suspension on Dec. 30 against Syracuse.

He hasn't eased up this year, either. Here's Gonzo on the two other Big East coaches in the New York area.

"I could sit here and say there's a couple of guys in the metropolitan area who don't have winning records who got extensions -- I'm not knocking them. I'm just comparing," Gonzalez said at Seton Hall's media day. "I could say there are guys who haven't proved themselves by having no postseason wins."

And here's a comment about one of his own players, Brandon Walters.

"I think he's a borderline Big East player," Gonzalez told a room full of reporters at media day. "I don't have a ton of confidence in him right now, but he is a forward."

Just more examples of Gonzo being Gonzo.

With the way he treats people -- reporters, referees, coaches and players -- is it really any wonder that Seton Hall is still seeking its first commitment in this year's recruiting class?

Adam Zagoria is a regular contributor to SNY.tv. Read his blog at ZagsBlog.net.

 

[messiahchild]

Originally Posted by allen3xis

Was a fan of him with Manhattan...not at all anymore. He won't make it through the year.

I feel the same exact way. When Luis Flores was there, Manhattan had the MAAC on locked and Gonzo was puttin himself on the map....Ever since hegot to Seton Hall, dude just been feelin himself a little too much...

 

[lazy b]

allen,

Ever since Bobby G arrived in Jersey he became an $#+*!+#. Players that would have played under the coach prior to Gonzales got benched or transferred out. Noone likes the man. If Seton Hall keeps him after this year, a lot of prospects are going to stay away from that school.

EDIT:
Bobby G is about to Mike Jarvis that program. No one from NYC or Jersey will consider going there unless they have no choice.

 

[allen3xis]

Yeah, And they fire Louis Orr who made the tournament in 2 of his last 3 years there..and by all accounts was a good man.

 

[lazy b]

I previously commented w/o reading the article but now that I read it

. Any pipeline that was established is going to dry up and get cut off. AAU and HScoaches are definitely going to keep their players away from Seton Hall as long as Gonzales is there. If the AD and alumni are smart they'll have him goneby the college winter break.

 

[jordanxi2001]

just so you are all aware...

BEWARE: ST. BONAVENTURE BONNIES BASKETBALL IS BACK (finally)!

2-0, throttled Robert Morris in the season opener, and dominated Marist on the road by 23. the Bonnies are a team full of ballers, they are gonna do damage inthe a-10 this yr. it'll be a beautiful sight to see when they return to glory!