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#271
03-27-2007, 09:46 AM
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Re: Tubby Smith resigns, taking Minnesota job
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Breaking news: www.kentuckysportsradio.com and www.catspause.com reporting a deal is already in place to bring Billy Donovan to Kentucky, even as he is coaching in the Final Four. [/ QUOTE ] Not likely: LEXINGTON, Ky. – A message-board post on a Web site devoted to covering University of Kentucky athletics caused a stir last night and this morning by reporting a rumor that UK was close to naming Florida’s Billy Donovan its head basketball coach. Darrell Bird, the general manager of The Cats’ Pause – a magazine and Web site that covers UK sports – posted on the site’s message board a rumor that he’d been hearing about the impending hire of Donovan to replace Tubby Smith, who resigned last week. The story was picked up by several other media outlets and attributed to The Cats’ Pause, but Bird said this morning that the post was intended only to update his site’s subscribers on the status of a rumor he was finding difficult to disprove. “Somehow it went from a discussion on our subscriber-only message board to (being reported as) done-deal fact,” Bird said. “We talk about rumors every day on our message board.” Bird posted a link to the message board thread from the site’s home page. That link appeared under a headline: “Blockbuster deal done?” And Bird’s initial message-board post included several details, including rumors of a seven-year contract for Donovan that would pay him $3.5 million annually. Bird wrote that the deal was “reportedly brokered Thursday and Friday during a meeting with Donovan’s agent in Lexington.” That post also said that the news wasn’t coming from official sources such as UK athletics director Mitch Barnhart or university president Lee Todd. But Bird wrote that “if this were the Kentucky Derby we’d be close enough to smell the blanket of roses.” Still, Bird said he didn’t intend the story to be treated as a news report. Instead, he said, his intent was to keep subscribers updated on the status of a rumor that already had made the rounds on the site’s message boards over the weekend. Bird called the story “a solid rumor,” but said he wouldn’t have printed it in his weekly column in The Cats’ Pause. He said he sees a distinction between posting a rumor on his site’s message board and reporting news on the site’s front page or in the printed edition of the magazine. “To me, the message boards are almost like the radio call-in shows,” Bird said. “It’s, ‘What are you hearing?’ It’s a back-and-forth medium.” 
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#273
03-27-2007, 12:07 PM
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Re: Tubby Smith resigns, taking Minnesota job
It looks to me as if Greg Doyle at CBS Sportsline "gets it."
[ QUOTE ] These are my people -- Florida's my alma mater -- but they've lost their minds. After winning his second consecutive national title in the next week, Donovan might not leave for Kentucky. But if he stays it won't be because Florida is a better job. It's not. It's not close. Next time I'm in a bad mood and in need of a giggle, I'm going to tell myself the Florida basketball job is as good as the one at Kentucky. That'll have me in stitches. Do you understand why Florida is such a good job? Because Donovan's the one who has it. [/ QUOTE ] http://www.sportsline.com/columns/story/10091235/1
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#274
03-27-2007, 02:19 PM
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Re: Tubby Smith resigns, taking Minnesota job
this board will be done a huge service if no one ever links a Greg Doyle article again.
He doesn't even believe what he writes. He writes stuff sure to stir the pot. He is the O'Reilly or Olbermann of college basketball.
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#275
03-27-2007, 02:20 PM
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Re: Tubby Smith resigns, taking Minnesota job
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this board will be done a huge service if no one ever links a Greg Doyle article again. He doesn't even believe what he writes. He writes stuff sure to stir the pot. He is the O'Reilly or Olbermann of college basketball. [/ QUOTE ] But it proves his point, he must be right. The guy posted an article from sportsline, gotta be true ^^.
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#276
03-27-2007, 03:01 PM
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Re: Tubby Smith resigns, taking Minnesota job
Believing/posting any rumors about Billy D at this point is laughable. He WILL talk to UK AFTER the Final 4, but he won't be speaking to them until afterwards. UK fans are worse than Michigan fans tracking recruits and coaches via airplanes.
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#277
03-27-2007, 04:11 PM
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Believing/posting any rumors about Billy D at this point is laughable. He WILL talk to UK AFTER the Final 4, but he won't be speaking to them until afterwards. UK fans are worse than Michigan fans tracking recruits and coaches via airplanes. [/ QUOTE ] ummm....this situation is eerily similar to Roy Williams having Kansas in the Final Four for the second year in a row IIRC, but still sewing up the North Carolina job in his free time that week.
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#278
03-27-2007, 04:13 PM
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Re: Tubby Smith resigns, taking Minnesota job
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[ QUOTE ] Believing/posting any rumors about Billy D at this point is laughable. He WILL talk to UK AFTER the Final 4, but he won't be speaking to them until afterwards. UK fans are worse than Michigan fans tracking recruits and coaches via airplanes. [/ QUOTE ] ummm....this situation is eerily similar to Roy Williams having Kansas in the Final Four for the second year in a row IIRC, but still sewing up the North Carolina job in his free time that week. [/ QUOTE ] "I could give a [censored] about Carolina right now."
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#279
03-27-2007, 04:55 PM
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Re: Tubby Smith resigns, taking Minnesota job
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[ QUOTE ] Believing/posting any rumors about Billy D at this point is laughable. He WILL talk to UK AFTER the Final 4, but he won't be speaking to them until afterwards. UK fans are worse than Michigan fans tracking recruits and coaches via airplanes. [/ QUOTE ] ummm....this situation is eerily similar to Roy Williams having Kansas in the Final Four for the second year in a row IIRC, but still sewing up the North Carolina job in his free time that week. [/ QUOTE ] Or maybe similar to courting Urban Meyer while his Utah team was preparing for a bowl game?
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#280
03-27-2007, 04:57 PM
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Re: Tubby Smith resigns, taking Minnesota job
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Believing/posting any rumors about Billy D at this point is laughable. He WILL talk to UK AFTER the Final 4, but he won't be speaking to them until afterwards. UK fans are worse than Michigan fans tracking recruits and coaches via airplanes. [/ QUOTE ] I agree with every part of this post. I shared some rather funny (and somewhat stalker-scary) posts with TFG from the UK message boards yesterday. Overall, I wish this issue would just totally die till after Monday is over and Florida brings home their 2nd straight National Championship. It would be better for all parties involved for this story to just die for a few short days.
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