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[QUOTE="M2MPrinciples, post: 4553386, member: 928"]
Media like to circle the wagons when they sense one of their own is being attacked, even if it's a student who may or may not go into the industry professionally. Heck, if it's a student, that probably exacerbates it since it's not a full-time job. That's why this is a story (to the extent it is one), not because Boeheim lashed out.

And I will quibble a little with the student reporter's phrasing of the question. "What's the status on Benny Williams" is pretty shabby (and, yes, overly aggressive) wording if the goal is to elicit a straightforward response from JB. A better way would be to say something like "Benny Williams took a personal day today, do you expect him back at practice this week?" Being a beat reporter involves asking tough questions, but it also involves building and maintaining a relationship with your subject, which in turn involves being able to gauge how you should approach the subject to get what you need.

Boeheim isn't going to change after 47 years of being the big chief. I can and have accepted that, but that doesn't mean it doesn't reflect poorly on the program. And while it's not realistic to expect Boeheim to change, it absolutely reflects poorly on Pete Moore that he didn't sense that people would be asking follow-up questions and distribute some kind of message about Benny's status moving forward.
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