Leave Barry Alone

(St. Louis, MO) – Well Barry Hinson made Sports Center and his video has gone viral.  It’s just not the way he would have liked and many people have over reacted to the Southern Illinois Carbondale Head Coach’s recent evaluation of his team. Some called it “Barry being Barry” and some called it shameful.  Watch the video, make an evaluation and then read mine.

 

Could Coach Hinson have been more kind and more positive?  Sure.  He began the press conference saying he wanted to hold back because he might get too mad after his team’s defeat to Murray State and then after answering a few questions he got more worked up than maybe he should have.

The next day he apologized for singling out one of his players by name, but not for the rest of the comments. Members of the media love Barry Hinson for being honest, controversial and using unusual descriptions in his basketball evaluations. Why, when he’s in a good mood is that called endearing and refreshing and when things go south should he be ridiculed and called ‘out of control’ and mean.

Sporting News college basketball guru Mike Decourcy agrees with me. When responding to some of the “Hinson Hangers” Decourcy says,”This is ridiculous. The man used no curse words, no epithets, no slurs. He didn’t use any inappropriate metaphors of the sort that were so rampant on the Rutgers practice tapes that were unearthed last March. None of us has even the slightest reason to be offended by what Hinson did in his postgame press conference after the Salukis fell to 2-8.
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Now, should Hinson have gone nuclear on his team?  Should he have called them some of things he did?  Time will tell if his comments will help or hinder his team, but what everyone that knows Barry Hinson knows that he will battle and he will work to make his team better.  His players will graduate, his players will leave Carbondale with a degree, an appreciation for hard work and they will learn to win.

Will it be this year?  I don’t know, but Hinson’s Egyptian Dogs will regain their bite.

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