EtomicB
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Post by EtomicB on Feb 22, 2024 15:42:47 GMT -5
I don't understand how a lot of these reporters go about their jobs, Gtown is on an 11 game losing streak that has seen a bunch of slow starts. Cooley gets asked what changed that allowed them to get back in the game, his answer is just "will & want to" To me that begs the next question to be "Why do you think they didn't have the urgency from the start?" The next question is about Epps hurting his foot. smh... No follow ups when Cooley talks about the defense either. Skip to 17:16 if you don't want to listen to Pitino talk for 15 minutes www.youtube.com/live/1hyTes022Q8?si=3fTTzFMR3s8sjKWMwww.youtube.com/live/1hyTes022Q8?si=3fTTzFMR3s8sjKWMThis hits on a good point. There are some good sports reporters out there, but they are few and far between. This is generally true across all sports, but even worse for college basketball since there are so many different teams and so the talent pool is widely dispersed. I know coaches get crap sometimes because they don’t answer questions with probing answers, but the journalists often don’t ask the questions that should be asked or they just don’t follow up. But with college sports it’s a really delicate balance too. As a journalist, you want access so your incentive to probe and ask tough questions is inherently limited. After all, it’s easy to cut journalist access, in which case you cannot ask any questions at all. My feeling is the John Thompson Jr., Ronny, Ewing regime didn’t like reporters that did that—at least when things are tough (it’s easy when things are good because you don’t have to ask tough questions). How Cooley and his staff and media staff handle this is an open question. I agree with this take but it's still frustrating I also think the problem is that they've written down post game questions to ask and aren't paying attention to what others are asking & what Cooley is saying. Gtown is 313th in defense the coach says "it's unfortunate we're not better defensively this late in the season" and the next question is about Rowan.
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Post by hoyasaxa2003 on Feb 22, 2024 17:33:16 GMT -5
This hits on a good point. There are some good sports reporters out there, but they are few and far between. This is generally true across all sports, but even worse for college basketball since there are so many different teams and so the talent pool is widely dispersed. I know coaches get crap sometimes because they don’t answer questions with probing answers, but the journalists often don’t ask the questions that should be asked or they just don’t follow up. But with college sports it’s a really delicate balance too. As a journalist, you want access so your incentive to probe and ask tough questions is inherently limited. After all, it’s easy to cut journalist access, in which case you cannot ask any questions at all. My feeling is the John Thompson Jr., Ronny, Ewing regime didn’t like reporters that did that—at least when things are tough (it’s easy when things are good because you don’t have to ask tough questions). How Cooley and his staff and media staff handle this is an open question. I agree with this take but it's still frustratingI also think the problem is that they've written down post game questions to ask and aren't paying attention to what others are asking & what Cooley is saying. Gtown is 313th in defense the coach says "it's unfortunate we're not better defensively this late in the season" and the next question is about Rowan. Yes, it's frustrating because it's not that hard. An easy follow up to your point above is, "in your mind, what are the reasons the team is not defensively better this late in the season?" That's not even a hard-hitting a question. Just basic follow up, but for whatever reason the questions do not get asked. I do not know who is in the room at these post-game press conferences, but I don't get the sense it's full of people waiting to ask probing questions. I really think for the type of answers you would like to see a more long-form interview is a better format. It's hard to ask those sort of things in post-game press conferences, particularly if you cannot ask follow ups (I have no idea if people are allowed to). After the season is over, I would hope that Cooley would do at least a couple of those types of interviews that end up in a longer-form article somewhere. It's good publicity, and it'll give him a chance to tout whoever we get from the portal and the freshman.
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jwp91
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Post by jwp91 on Feb 22, 2024 19:19:46 GMT -5
I don't think Cooley can answer these questions truthfully in a press conference....because he has more class than Rick Pitino.
As much as everyone wants public performance evaluations of the players from Cooley, he would be an idiot to do it.
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astrohoya
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Post by astrohoya on Feb 22, 2024 20:09:03 GMT -5
Press conferences suck because the reporters are in competition. They have different agendas and are not going to work together to follow up or expand on a coach’s comment. Most decide on their one question beforehand.
You see this in politics where press conferences are often competitions between reporters to see what question gets the biggest rise out of the politician.
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hoyajmw
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Post by hoyajmw on Feb 23, 2024 18:33:54 GMT -5
Looks like Hoyas are 4.5 point favorites with an over/under of 150.5
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Post by hoyaboya on Feb 23, 2024 18:57:58 GMT -5
Looks like Hoyas are 4.5 point favorites with an over/under of 150.5 Take the Hoyas -4.5 and the over.
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jwp91
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Post by jwp91 on Feb 23, 2024 19:02:39 GMT -5
How far has the program fallen? We don't have a game thread 24 hours before the game for perhaps the most important game of the season.
We can't tie for 10th with that team.
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