There I am, suddenly 6-9, interviewing Rutgers’ Greg Echenique. Wait till you see the video footage.
As promised this morning, some hoops stories. I couldn’t possibly get them all (or even half), but here’s a decent sampling.
Morgantown, New York City, both home. Who would’ve thunk? Nova’s the preseason no. 1, there aren’t 38 star seniors, but give the Big East time. Cream always rises. (SNY.tv)
John Marinatto has a sense of humor. Or maybe Mike Tranghese does. (NJ Newsroom)
Rick Pitino was obviously the draw of the day. Sex scandals tend to do that. (NY Daily News)
Pitino talked about thoroughbreds’ blinders and he promised no more distractions. Fat chance. (Providence Journal, USA Today, AOL Fanhouse)
Maybe to deflect some of that, maybe just to be honest, Pitino figured it was as good a time as any to knock Rutgers’ facilities. (Star-Ledger)
It wasn’t so much quality of the truly good teams yesterday as it was quantity of the truly good. (Journal Inquirer)
Jay Wright thinks his team is prettier than last year’s. (Philadelphia Inquirer)
Jim Calhoun’s lost 500 pounds. In two players. (Hartford Courant)
There’s a shift in Big East power. (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette)
Honestly, I thought this was the lightest coverage of a Big East Men’s Basketball Media day I can ever remember seeing. Certainly from a Rutgers standpoint it is but a team that gets picked to finsih 15th ought to bring that about I guess.
Well, FatCat, I know I tried to talk to Rutgers’ coach, Fred Hill, but I wasn’t successful. First he had to go to ESPN, then I couldn’t find him and when I thought I had him, he sat down with Syracuse’s Citrus TV. Citrus TV kept him on air for a while and when he was done, he said he was already late for the print side and I have to respect that. I will, however, have a Seton Hall story soon.
Well, its certainly no criticism of you. :) Just a general criticism of the program itself and the interest level in it I guess. Perhaps its all coming for when Rutgers has its media day but to read almost nothing about the team yesterday was disappointing.
I really couldn’t care what the Slickster has to say about the RAC. The RAC isn’t the issue at Rutgers. Almost 20 years of bad coaching and poor performance has that covered.