“@STJCoachLavin: #Stjbb received official notice today from NCAA: Chris O'bekpa led CBB in shot blocking this past season. Congrats to the big fella! Kudos.”
This is the 2nd time in a month that I've seen Lavin type O'bekpa instead of Obekpa. Does he really think his name has an apostrophe in it?
it's the Gaelic spelling
Funny how people tend to assume that coach is wrong.
Well the entire year he was Obekpa. That was signed off on by the SID and the staff and if it was O'bekpa you would think it would have been corrected during the year.
No?
Not necessarily. Perhaps it was an oversight, or not an issue to those in the know to even correct. Happens all the time with individuals with uncommon names and pronouncations from different ethnic and cultural backgrounds. They assimilate to the culture they are in and except their name being mispronounced or misspelled. Yet when around people who are close to that person you hear the proper pronouncation.
This isn't the first or last time the SID info was incorrect, that's also common. If it was the first time Lavin mentioned the name like that then I could understand thinking it was a mistake. Second time however I would think its intentional. There is a undertone from some on the board who believe Lavin is a airhead and because of that unfair assessment, IMO, he often isn't given the benefit of doubt.