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Message: [QUOTE="sutomcat, post: 3658097, member: 27"] Thanks. That article happened days after my post. It is hard to tell how much trash talking is going on when you are watching a game on TV, especially when the announcers are not very interested in discussing what is happening and the director is not interested in showing much of the trash talk that was happening. I mostly just saw SU players shown along on some shots, clearly reacting to something, presumably trash talk from UB players near by. I think the director missed the bump that resulted in the UB technical near the end of the game and I don’t remember them bothering to show a replay that showed who bumped who, how the players reacted and how that technical came to pass. Not impressed by the director or production values of the ACCN broadcasts from the dome this year so far. That is not good because I think the director and most of the crew are from SU (but not the announcers). In the old Big East, trash talking was very common and Syracuse players engaged in it as much as anyone. Perhaps more than anyone. The reason I didn’t mention it was because from what I saw, it was unremarkable behavior. Not big deal. On to your other question. I find it hard to believe simple trash talking by UB would be enough for JB to ban them from appearing in the dome again while he is still the HC. I think part of it is bitterness from losing that last game against Oates. Especially after Oates was so willing to speak publicly about how he thought UB was the better and tougher team and how little his players respected Syracuse. JB just went out of his way to criticize Oats for implying (he didn’t come out and say it, but asked a question implying Coach K had become an advocate for cancelling the season this year because he had suffered a couple of OOC losses early in the season. No doubt he really dislikes Oats on a personal level. JB criticizing UB players for saying they deserved to win is a little weird to me. He has definitely said the same thing multiple times in the past, though much less in recent years. By the time he made those comments, he knew UB had a positive test and it had led to his team getting shutdown for 2 weeks. More than anything, I think that is what made him so mad at UB and so reluctant to ever schedule them again. But that is just a guess on my part. [/QUOTE]

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