Bill Koch Leaving the Cin. Enq.

[xudash]

Per the Cin. Bus. Courrier:


Bill Koch, a sports reporter who writes about University of Cincinnati basketball and was a sports columnist for the Cincinnati Post, which closed in 2007.

Don't have to read his drivel anymore, not that I read much of it anyway.

[Juice]

Per the Cin. Bus. Courrier:


Bill Koch, a sports reporter who writes about University of Cincinnati basketball and was a sports columnist for the Cincinnati Post, which closed in 2007.

Don't have to read his drivel anymore, not that I read much of it anyway.

So is he leaving so he can take a full time position s*cking Mick Cronin's nuts?

[xudash]

So is he leaving so he can take a full time position s*cking Mick Cronin's nuts?

Major restructuring going on at the Enquirer, which is the primary reason for the staff reductions and exodus for early payouts. Thank you Internet and changing business models.

As for the YTG, perhaps they're trying to negotiate something along those lines: Koch needs work and Mick needs....attention.

[coasterville95]

So you mena internet paywalls didn't right the ship? ;).

[xudash]

So you mena internet paywalls didn't right the ship? ;).

Imagine that...

[Masterofreality]

According to one of our esteemed posters...who was an "ink stained wretch" Koch had a deep abiding hatred of Xavier.

He and PDoc purposely asked the leading questions that prompted the Tu response in the press conference after the Brawl game. While that doesn't absolve Tu's answer necessarily, it was abhorrent that a supposed "responsible reporter" would try to provoke controversy from a college kid after such an emotionally charged situation.

Good bye and good riddance Mr. Koch.

[LadyMuskie]

Not to take a detour here to beat a dead horse, but neither Tu nor his answer on that day need to be absolved of anything.

But, yeah, Bill Koch is a terrible writer. I haven't read anything he's written in some time, but I can't believe it's gotten better with age.

[GoMuskies]

Tu looked like kind of an idiot sitting there at the podium that day talking about us being gangstas.

I still love the guy. And he inspired the name of my fantasy football team the next year with his quotes that afternoon.

[paulxu]

Not to take a detour here to beat a dead horse, but neither Tu nor his answer on that day need to be absolved of anything.

This.

[Masterofreality]

Not to take a detour here to beat a dead horse, but neither Tu nor his answer on that day need to be absolved of anything.


You know......You're right.

Gangsta.

[wkrq59]

Weep not nor curse Bill Koch. It's his second buyout as Post also paid him to leave. if that the case. Enquirer undergoing big changes which may rob this city of any daily other than Useless Yesterday. And let's forget about Tu and the alleged heathens. It's over. Let's move on.

[waggy]

Indy Star recently went thru the same thing. I think they're owned by the same corporate.

[Juice]

Indy Star recently went thru the same thing. I think they're owned by the same corporate.

Yeah but they hired Greg Doyel from CBS. I imagine that would involve taking on a considerable salary.

[JTG]

Yeah but they hired Greg Doyel from CBS. I imagine that would involve taking on a considerable salary.

Gannett owes The Star, and Doyel, like his predecessor Kravitz, will do double duty, also writing for USA Today.

[Emp]

Tu looked like kind of an idiot sitting there at the podium that day talking about us being gangstas.

I still love the guy. And he inspired the name of my fantasy football team the next year with his quotes that afternoon.

This, not that.

Blaming Koch for the street vernacular quote is ludicrous. One would have hoped that a fifth year Xavier- educated athlete would know the difference between appropriate formal press conference language and street ball lingo, however charged the situation. Mack and Eiser should never have put Holloway in front of the mic. The firestorm was a needless discredit to Xavier and the program, in addition to letting the gooncats off the hook for the assault and battery.

It ruined a potentially great season for the team and Tu. Still Pretending it was just great is loco.

[Juice]

This, not that.

Blaming Koch for the street vernacular quote is ludicrous. One would have hoped that a fifth year Xavier- educated athlete would know the difference between appropriate formal press conference language and street ball lingo, however charged the situation. Mack and Eiser should never have put Holloway in front of the mic. The firestorm was a needless discredit to Xavier and the program, in addition to letting the gooncats off the hook for the assault and battery.

It ruined a potentially great season for the team and Tu. Still Pretending it was just great is loco.

No, one would hope that normal human beings could tell the difference between normal language and street ball lingo and not take everything so literally.

[paulxu]

It ruined a potentially great season for the team and Tu. Still Pretending it was just great is loco.

Not this.

No one is pretending that what happened at the press conference was "great." Everyone understands it was a poor choice of words, and it would have been best to have Mack address the media...not emotional players who just went through a meltdown fight with the opposition.

But fights happen all the time. Rather than focus on it, understand it for what it was...everybody decided to focus on Tu's choice of words, and blew them way out of proportion.

The responses were so over the top I am still amazed. And the responses by the press and school, if anything at all, ruined the season.
Not what Tu said.

[muskienick]

Not this.

No one is pretending that what happened at the press conference was "great." Everyone understands it was a poor choice of words, and it would have been best to have Mack address the media...not emotional players who just went through a meltdown fight with the opposition.

But fights happen all the time. Rather than focus on it, understand it for what it was...everybody decided to focus on Tu's choice of words, and blew them way out of proportion.

The responses were so over the top I am still amazed. And the responses by the press and school, if anything at all, ruined the season.
Not what Tu said.

Paul gets it right once again!

[gladdenguy]

I don't care what Tom Eiser has done. He should have been fired a day after that press conference. Another Xavier mistake of many over the last couple years. Never forgotten nor "let's move on" because the black eye will always be there. And Tu got the biggest shaft while the Xavier employees have "moved on". Bulls$&t.

[Muskie]

I don't care what Tom Eiser has done. He should have been fired a day after that press conference. Another Xavier mistake of many over the last couple years. Never forgotten nor "let's move on" because the black eye will always be there. And Tu got the biggest shaft while the Xavier employees have "moved on". Bulls$&t.

What shaft did Tu get? Even if X let them go out there, can't they still act like adults under pressure? Blame the admin all you want, but these weren't bright eyed 18 year old freshman at the podium. Tu and Lyons had done many of these conferences. They had a good idea how to act. They acted poorly. Blame whoever you want, but you can't absolve some but blame others. It was a colossal screw up on all fronts.

[LadyMuskie]

Not this.

No one is pretending that what happened at the press conference was "great." Everyone understands it was a poor choice of words, and it would have been best to have Mack address the media...not emotional players who just went through a meltdown fight with the opposition.

But fights happen all the time. Rather than focus on it, understand it for what it was...everybody decided to focus on Tu's choice of words, and blew them way out of proportion.

The responses were so over the top I am still amazed. And the responses by the press and school, if anything at all, ruined the season.
Not what Tu said.

Precisely!

[SM#24]

This, not that.

Blaming Koch for the street vernacular quote is ludicrous. One would have hoped that a fifth year Xavier- educated athlete would know the difference between appropriate formal press conference language and street ball lingo, however charged the situation. Mack and Eiser should never have put Holloway in front of the mic. The firestorm was a needless discredit to Xavier and the program, in addition to letting the gooncats off the hook for the assault and battery.

It ruined a potentially great season for the team and Tu. Still Pretending it was just great is loco.


No, one would hope that normal human beings could tell the difference between normal language and street ball lingo and not take everything so literally.
This x 1,000

http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=5gpS7PSYWcM

This forced me to listen to the press conference again. Unbelievable the over reaction to the comments. I mean, Tu says "gangsta" and immediately explains what he means.

[Masterofreality]

Koch and PDoc are asses.

The luring of Tu into comments was precisely to take the attention away from XU's beat down of the Borecats. The ESPN played the comments up for the same reason...to take attention away from the fact that one of their vaunted Big East properties got their asses boat raced.