Jeffrey @#%@# Parsons

[boyshocker]

"He is a big GM fan" he has to say that, can't imagine what GM would do to him one on one. I'm sorry I missed the 1410 interview, did he make an appearance on 1240 this week?

[martymoose]

I'm pretty sure that Parsons went to WSU. I remember him writing articles for the Sunflower.

This would have been probably 94-97?

So, his tenure as the Sunflower "sports editor" was colored by the bad basketball being played in the Roundhouse. I was frankly surprised when he was picked up by the Eagle.

Writing for the Sunflower doesn't say much...didn't the Sunflower have to go through a house cleaning recently due to idiotic articles being written by its writers?

[BA2929]

I wonder what he thought of Jimmy Valvano's end line to end line celebration?

I know. I know. Jimmy was unprofessional.

It is quite fascinating that a sports reporter has zero understanding of the full dimensions and emotions of jubilation in sports. It is not just reserved for national championships.

I think this is a little different.


Jimmy V had just won the NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP after a last second, miracle tip-in. You can do whatever you want in celebration after winning a National Title. GM acted like an excited monkey who just found the last banana on the island after beating lowly Evansville to become 3-6 in Valley play and not tied for last place. It's no where near the same. Not even close. Should he have been excited? Yes, it was a pretty fantastic finish. But perhaps he should have toned it down a little bit. Even just one double fist pump would have sufficed, but GM decided to go with 4, then carry off the AD like he was Rudy. I don't know JP at all, but he's paid to give his opinion and I agree with him. I usually enjoy GM's antics, but this time I believe GM went a little overboard and was a little unprofessional.

[tropicalshox]

For me no other sport matches college basketball. The energy and enthusiasm of the players, fans and a few of the coaches is unmatched. I'm glad our coach is one of them.

[Ricardo del Rio]

I wonder what he thought of Jimmy Valvano's end line to end line celebration?

I know. I know. Jimmy was unprofessional.

It is quite fascinating that a sports reporter has zero understanding of the full dimensions and emotions of jubilation in sports. It is not just reserved for national championships.

I think this is a little different.


Jimmy V had just won the NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP after a last second, miracle tip-in. You can do whatever you want in celebration after winning a National Title. GM acted like an excited monkey who just found the last banana on the island after beating lowly Evansville to become 3-6 in Valley play and not tied for last place. It's no where near the same. Not even close. Should he have been excited? Yes, it was a pretty fantastic finish. But perhaps he should have toned it down a little bit. Even just one double fist pump would have sufficed, but GM decided to go with 4, then carry off the AD like he was Rudy. I don't know JP at all, but he's paid to give his opinion and I agree with him. I usually enjoy GM's antics, but this time I believe GM went a little overboard and was a little unprofessional.

Why don't you simply say that you would not have behaved as Coach Marshall did?

Besides, it was not a tip in.

Caps in the middle of a sentence are not necessary. I was Ms. Opal Chase's student.

[ShockerFever]

I wonder what he thought of Jimmy Valvano's end line to end line celebration?

I know. I know. Jimmy was unprofessional.

It is quite fascinating that a sports reporter has zero understanding of the full dimensions and emotions of jubilation in sports. It is not just reserved for national championships.

I think this is a little different.


Jimmy V had just won the NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP after a last second, miracle tip-in. You can do whatever you want in celebration after winning a National Title. GM acted like an excited monkey who just found the last banana on the island after beating lowly Evansville to become 3-6 in Valley play and not tied for last place. It's no where near the same. Not even close. Should he have been excited? Yes, it was a pretty fantastic finish. But perhaps he should have toned it down a little bit. Even just one double fist pump would have sufficed, but GM decided to go with 4, then carry off the AD like he was Rudy. I don't know JP at all, but he's paid to give his opinion and I agree with him. I usually enjoy GM's antics, but this time I believe GM went a little overboard and was a little unprofessional.

Maybe you should think in hindsight what it would be like to be in Marshall's shoes. I take it that you've never been a college basketball coach or any type of higher level coach. Given the rough last 20 months, the dramatic ending, and a lot of other variables, I don't think it's fair to call out a guy on being 'unprofessional'. Like Ricky said, maybe you wouldn't have done it, but then again, you aren't Gregg Marshall. He wasn't thinking about doing the politically correct thing. Who cares? He didn't rub it in anyone's faces so please, please GET OVER IT.

[ShoxFan963]

Does anyone know where I can find the EU ending video that is CLEARand not taken on a camera phone?

[ShockerFever]

Does anyone know where I can find the EU ending video that is CLEARand not taken on a camera phone?

http://www.shockernet.net/sn/viewtopic.php?t=13361

[ShoxFan963]

Thank you, that is an awesome expression by GM and ES, unprofessional or not.

[Ricardo del Rio]

I wonder what he thought of Jimmy Valvano's end line to end line celebration?

I know. I know. Jimmy was unprofessional.

It is quite fascinating that a sports reporter has zero understanding of the full dimensions and emotions of jubilation in sports. It is not just reserved for national championships.

I think this is a little different.


Jimmy V had just won the NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP after a last second, miracle tip-in. You can do whatever you want in celebration after winning a National Title. GM acted like an excited monkey who just found the last banana on the island after beating lowly Evansville to become 3-6 in Valley play and not tied for last place. It's no where near the same. Not even close. Should he have been excited? Yes, it was a pretty fantastic finish. But perhaps he should have toned it down a little bit. Even just one double fist pump would have sufficed, but GM decided to go with 4, then carry off the AD like he was Rudy. I don't know JP at all, but he's paid to give his opinion and I agree with him. I usually enjoy GM's antics, but this time I believe GM went a little overboard and was a little unprofessional.

I have some news for you. Wake Forest defeated Duke tonight and won the 2009 NCAA Championship Tournament.

In celebration, the fans, students, coaches and players stormed the court.

Thank God, they did not get carried away over a win of a routine conference game.

[ShockerFever]

Maybe JP should do a report on the 'professionalism' of Bradley basketball players shooting 3's at the buzzer.

[pinstripers]

Are we really gonna make a big deal of that?

[ShockerFever]

Are we really gonna make a big deal of that?

Nah. I didn't think what Marshall did after the EU game was a big deal either.

[bloodgold]

BA2929--

Uproot yourself and your family, leave a job you've held for nearly a decade. Come into a pressure cooker of an occupation, carrying the hopes and expectations of hundreds of thousands of fans with you on a 24 hour per day basis. Go from always winning to always losing. Rely on a bunch of kids to make your living and satisfy your own competitive makeup, as well as those of your boss and an entire city. Spend every waking hour worrying and fretting. Jump on a plane and go watch some 16 year olds and think about staking your career on them. Have a recruit die in front of you. Work for 18 months to fight corruption and red tape in Nigeria. See game film in your restless sleep. Be told "no" 30 times for every "maybe." Lose scores of close games. Take some calls from "fans" wondering why you didn't go man to man in the last 30 seconds of the last game or whether you ever have the players shoot free throws in practice. Compete cleanly against other programs with envelopes stuffed with crispy hundreds. Make sure 15 teenagers stay out of trouble, go to class and represent the university properly. Then, after you have completed the above items, criticize a coach for celebrating a dramatic, come from behind win a little too exuberantly.

[ShockerGorilla]

BA2929--

Uproot yourself and your family, leave a job you've held for nearly a decade. Come into a pressure cooker of an occupation, carrying the hopes and expectations of hundreds of thousands of fans with you on a 24 hour per day basis. Go from always winning to always losing. Rely on a bunch of kids to make your living and satisfy your own competitive makeup, as well as those of your boss and an entire city. Spend every waking hour worrying and fretting. Jump on a plane and go watch some 16 year olds and think about staking your career on them. Have a recruit die in front of you. Work for 18 months to fight corruption and red tape in Nigeria. See game film in your restless sleep. Be told "no" 30 times for every "maybe." Lose scores of close games. Take some calls from "fans" wondering why you didn't go man to man in the last 30 seconds of the last game or whether you ever have the players shoot free throws in practice. Compete cleanly against other programs with envelopes stuffed with crispy hundreds. Make sure 15 teenagers stay out of trouble, go to class and represent the university properly. Then, after you have completed the above items, criticize a coach for celebrating a dramatic, come from behind win a little too exuberantly.

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