“@SJUCoachLavin: Barclays Tournament guarantees #stjbb 2 opponents from power conferences. We schedule the 2 other opponents: This year Cuse and Wisconsin.”
“@SJUCoachLavin: Good to have the Johnnies non conf schedule being bantered about by high profile expert pundits. Another indication #stjbb making strides.”
I honestly think it looks amateurish to have our coach indirectly responding on twitter like this.
Disagree. I thought it was great. He's doing it in a beyond professional manner. Gotta stick up for the team!
I don't mind coach responding. He thinks young, and Twitter fits him. Lotta kids see his posts. They are relevant. As we do better on the court, they'll be more relevant.
I agree. It's a new age.
Do other coaches respond to pundits like that?
I can't remember ever seeing that before. And I agree, on first glance it seems beneath a coach to respond to a commentator on twitter.
It could become a good thing though if we get on a role. If we're winning and the topic du jour for cbb analysts is "well, St Johns has talent, and they've beaten the teams they should beat, .. but have they really been challenged ??" If that's what Bilas and co. are talking about all season, and if Joe Lunardi is saying we're
only a 3 seed because we have a 'cupcake' schedule; then in that case I'm glad coach defended the schedule and sparked a conversation.
But obviously I don't know that's how things are going to play out