The Cincinnati Kid Posted December 11, 2011 Posted December 11, 2011 What were people's reactions to the Xavier and Cincinnati basketball brawl yesterday? I am a Xavier Alum. I think XU looks really bad in all of this, but UC for not standing strong on their post game words looks weak. http://www.cbssports.com/collegebasketball/gametracker/recap/NCAAB_20111210_CIN@XAVIER/brawl-ends-game-in-cincinnati http://bleacherreport.com/articles/977367-uc-xavier-fight-video-crosstown-shootout-marred-by-shocking-on-court-brawl Just curious on Public Opinion.
Beerball Posted December 11, 2011 Posted December 11, 2011 The brawl itself was an embarassment. I thought that the XU player's post game comments were almost as bad as the brawl itself. Bearcat who cheap shotted the XU player should be gone for the season (IMO).
Captain Hindsight Posted December 12, 2011 Posted December 12, 2011 Fights piss me off. I understand rivalries and all but at that point the game was well in hand, no reason for a fight there
boyst Posted December 12, 2011 Posted December 12, 2011 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OgbvdFW5qoQ Blablabla, where we from someone don't put their hands in my face, we gangsta, we gangsta, blablabla. NCAA should lifetime banhammer these wannabe-thugs.
Miyagi-Do Karate Posted December 12, 2011 Posted December 12, 2011 What were people's reactions to the Xavier and Cincinnati basketball brawl yesterday? I thought Cincy came out as the bad guys in this, especially Gates and that one freshman who kicked XU's big on the ground. Those two needed to be gone for the season, not just 6 games, which is what I think they got.
BuffaloBill Posted December 12, 2011 Posted December 12, 2011 Pathetic .... made only worse by the "gansta" attitude in the presser.
Buftex Posted December 12, 2011 Posted December 12, 2011 Yes, absolutely disgusting on all sides. Liked what the coaches had to say afterwards, but lets' see how they follow through.
Observer Posted December 12, 2011 Posted December 12, 2011 (edited) Huggins created that absurd excuse for a "program" at Cincinati. Here's a nice synopsis: In all, according to the University of Cincinnati, there had been no less than 21 players under Coach Huggins who have had, to use their term, “significant encounters with law enforcement.” These “encounters” included arrests for domestic violence, rape and DUI. One guy even punched a police horse. Another, Donald Little, taped his roommate to a lawn chair, threw weights at his head, clubbed him with a whiskey bottle and burned him with a heated coat hanger. He then stabbed him for good measure. Even after his contract was not extended in May 2005, and Huggins was considered to be on probation by the university, he still saw an incoming player charged with statutory rape, less than a month after forward Roy Bright was arrested for bringing a concealed weapon on campus. As for academics, 27 of 95 Huggins' players graduated from Cincinnati or another university in his 16 years. That’s a 28% graduation rate overall, including those students who transferred. Huggins also had four seasons where the NCAA reported the Cincinnati men’s basketball graduation rate to be zero. Even at the time Huggins was forced to resign, again according to university officials, one of his players had been maintaining a 0.0 GPA, and another would have had a 0.0 if not for two incompletes. Finally, Cincinnati was placed on probation by the NCAA in 1998, citing a lack of institutional control. When he signed at KState, he got an 800K bonus if he didn't do anything to jeopardize the university's reputation. Basically, a "don't Joe Paterno us over a child rapist and you'll get a million bucks" clause. Both schools should be tossing kids off the team immediately for the violence and postgame comments. But just like at Penn State, the programs' survivals are too important to the "schools." Edited December 12, 2011 by Observer
Observer Posted December 12, 2011 Posted December 12, 2011 Kids should be kicked out of school. "School." Cincinnati hasn't cared about it's hoops player's educations in forever.
Joe Miner Posted December 12, 2011 Posted December 12, 2011 "School." Cincinnati hasn't cared about it's hoops player's educations in forever. No doubt. But I would still like to have seen that happen. If these were non-basketball kids that started/participated a fight like that on campus, there is a good chance they would get kicked out of school. At least put on double secret probation.
Nanker Posted December 12, 2011 Posted December 12, 2011 I heard the local prosecutor was looking at charging the combatants.
C.Biscuit97 Posted December 13, 2011 Posted December 13, 2011 It was pretty bad, but you can see worse fights and stick work every week in hockey.
udonkey Posted December 13, 2011 Posted December 13, 2011 What were people's reactions to the Xavier and Cincinnati basketball brawl yesterday? I am a Xavier Alum. I think XU looks really bad in all of this, but UC for not standing strong on their post game words looks weak. http://www.cbssports.com/collegebasketball/gametracker/recap/NCAAB_20111210_CIN@XAVIER/brawl-ends-game-in-cincinnati http://bleacherreport.com/articles/977367-uc-xavier-fight-video-crosstown-shootout-marred-by-shocking-on-court-brawl Just curious on Public Opinion. And I'm a UC alum and I want to punch you in the face.
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