Mississippi coach allegedly attacks cabbie

[hoyalove4ever]

Article up on ESPN.

Of course, I have no idea if these allegations are true or not, but I was not shocked to see that Kennedy had formerly worked for Bob Huggins.

[Elvado]

At least unlike Huggy, he had the sense to take a cab while sh#@faced drunk.

[lichoya68]

oh my god and jimmy b will now hire him at the cuse wowowwowowowowo

[HoyasAreHungry]

Dec 18, 2008 11:42:24 GMT -5 Elvado said:

At least unlike Huggy, he had the sense to take a cab while sh#@faced drunk.

well played sir

[hifigator]

They just announced on our Noon sports show that he will not coach tonight. I think they are playing Louisville, if I heard correctly.

On a side note, I wonder if the cabbie was a "Mr. Taxi-cab over-accessorizor?"

[PDRHoya99]

sports.espn.go.com/ncb/news/story?id=3777703

As a former resident of the Queen city I have a few insights here:

1. At least he didn't punch a police horse.

2. The Lodge Bar (the place from which his "Director of Basketball Operations" was being ejected for being disorderly) is quite the interesting scene. I happened to be there last month for a Bengals game and grabbed some drinks there. The entertainment featured two dudes on acoustic guitars playing bad covers from the 90s pop genre (with a healthy dose of twang). They could not have been more well received by the crowd of 20-somethings that were packing the wood-paneled place til nearly 3am. Given that my 31 year old self felt about 5 years too old to be hanging out there I can only imagine what exactly the 40 year old Kennedy was doing there.

3. It's quite nice to see the nightlife of downtown Cincinnati is now bustling enough on a Wednesday night to draw national attention. Who knew you could even hail a cab in Cincinnati?

4. Where exactly was Kennedy and his staff taking a cab? Given that their game is being played downtown, and they were out drinking downtown, one has to imagine they were staying at a hotel downtown. Now for those of you that have never visited Cincinnati (which includes a good portion of this board given how often its spelling is butchered), I'll let you in on a little secret -- it's not that big! Any downtown hotel they would have been staying at couldn't be more than 4-5 blocks from the lodge bar (which is practically in the dead center of downtown).

So, to recap, Andy Kennedy:
a) should have realized that any decent defense attorney can get former bearcats off if they strike an animal (person might be tougher.
b) shares the sweaty ones love of trolling for strange at bars he is far too old to frequent (perhaps if the MD gig ever opens he'll be interested).
c) wastes Mississippi taxpayers' money by unnecessarily taking cabs when he doesn't have to.

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But you have to take a cab across the river to Kentucky to visit certain types of bars...

[CTHoya08]

Does anyone else think Kennedy looks a little like Professor Levinson in the economics department?

[hifigator]

I'm not sure what happened, but apparently he did coach last night. In any case, they did an interview with a journalist covering the story and basically he said that Kennedy's party got in the cab and then for some reason, they had 5 people and were told they couldn't have 5 people. For those cab-savvy in the group, is that normal? Either way, they had verbal altercations and in his words, going both ways. He said "there's two sides to every story and usually the truth lies somewhere in the middle." The tone was pretty clear that he thought that Kennedy acted inappropriately, though he did stop short of saying that he did in fact hit the cabbie. Kennedy still denies striking him.

Also, someone mentioned not needing a cab. The journalist questioned where they were going at that particular time and related the good old story about being tought that nothing good happens in the middle of the night. The bottom line was that while stopping short of placing full blame on Kennedy, there was a clear implication that Kennedy was to blame.


On Edit: and yes, they did mention that he was an understudy for Huggins. Hee hee hee