The Prez and the Orange

[LPOrange]

I was watching the post game interviews and MCW said the President tried to visit the locker room to congratulate the team but wasn't allowed. Can you imagine some $12/hr security person turning away the President because he didn't have the proper laminate!

 

[RF2044]

I was watching the post game interviews and MCW said the President tried to visit the locker room to congratulate the team but wasn't allowed. Can you imagine some $12/hr security person turning away the President because he didn't have the proper laminate!

That seems hard to believe.

Not shooting the messenger, but I find it incredibly difficult to believe.

 

[No Hoyas]

I was watching the post game interviews and MCW said the President tried to visit the locker room to congratulate the team but wasn't allowed. Can you imagine some $12/hr security person turning away the President because he didn't have the proper laminate!

ahhh...no security guard is keep the president from a photo op- he probably didnt want to be upstaged by MCW

 

[ImperialOrange]

POTUS could have that security guard "disappear" immediately if he wanted to. I'm not buying it either

 

[LPOrange]

Don't know how to imbed the video here, but it's at about the 1:50 mark.
POTUS

(BTW, MCW doesn't say why the President wasn't allowed in)

 

[Gabjon]

The secret service won't allow the president to go anywhere they deem insecure.

 

[JJReddawg]

The secret service won't allow the president to go anywhere they deem insecure.

And there's no telling what bombs Dirty was dropping in there.

 

[themole]

Thamel mentions this...said secret service (as opposed to Verizon center security) wouldn't let it happen, so cantor came in and told the team Barack said hi or something.

I am guessing they would have had to have sweapt the locker room for weapons or something beforehand

 

[LPOrange]

That makes more sense

 

[JeremyCuse]

Thamel mentions this...said secret service (as opposed to Verizon center security) wouldn't let it happen, so cantor came in and told the team Barack said hi or something.

I am guessing they would have had to have sweapt the locker room for weapons or something beforehand

Bingo, those guys are watching him like a hawk if there not 100% sure hes not going. Secret Service is really good at what they do, hard to argue with there results

 

[HoustonCuse]

He was probably worried that Biden was in there and would just crack the door open and let fly with two blasts from his shotgun when they knocked to get in.

 

[Todd Gack]

From Thamel's article:

The only disappointment, players said, came when Syracuse Chancellor Nancy Cantor came in and told the team that President Barack Obama's security detail wouldn't let him come congratulate them.

"Can't I go see the 'Cuse?" Obama asked. Cantor told the team: "The President of United States watched every bit of it. He said you were fabulous."

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Read More: http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/college-basketball/news/20130330/syracuse-marquette-elite-eight-final-four-thamel/#ixzz2P5VGoT4j​

 

[BLEEDORANGE727]

It's all good. They'll be back to visit him at his house!

 

[OrangeJEM]

Don't blame the Secret Service, I've heard MCW mentioned as the Baby Faced Assassin several time's this year.

 

[jekelish]

The secret service won't allow the president to go anywhere they deem insecure.

I guess they'll never let him attend a high school dance then.

BAM! Geddit?!

 

[orangeinjersey]

Had the president been allowed to visit the team after the game, would the NCAA have fined him 50k like they did Jay-Z for visiting the Kentucky locker room in Newark after the Eastern Regional there a few years ago??

 

[retro44]

one of the players couldn't pass the criminal background check from the secret service

 

[edowd26]

I guess they'll never let him attend a high school dance then.

BAM! Geddit?!

yea i get it.. you were insecure in high school... get some gd confidence you little girl.

 

[carlschmarl2]

It's not that POTUS wasn't ALLOWED into the locker room...they didn't want him in there stinking the place up...

 

[seanmac1844]

They thought he was world wide Wes

 

[4evaOrange]

Why couldn't the team go outside the locker room to see him??? Lol

 

[CusefanATL]

Thamel mentions this...said secret service (as opposed to Verizon center security) wouldn't let it happen, so cantor came in and told the team Barack said hi or something.

I am guessing they would have had to have sweapt the locker room for weapons or something beforehand

I sat just above POTUS and was shocked at how lax security was. Shocked.

Nobody was frisked, no metal detectors. And POTUS was literally sitting 8 feet max away from regular joes.

Unbelievable.

 

[HtownOrange]

I sat just above POTUS and was shocked at how lax security was. Shocked.

Nobody was frisked, no metal detectors. And POTUS was literally sitting 8 feet max away from regular joes.

Unbelievable.

There was a lot more security than you saw. The Secret Service is seen when they want to be seen and blend in very well when they do not want to be seen.

I had friends who performed the military sweeps in conjunction with the Secret Service prior to the Prez/Veep appearances. They are very in depth and thorough. They are also good with handling the masses without disrupting everything.

 

[rocklloyd]

I sat just above POTUS and was shocked at how lax security was. Shocked.

Nobody was frisked, no metal detectors. And POTUS was literally sitting 8 feet max away from regular joes.

Unbelievable.

Did you have cell service during the game?

 

[orange79]

The secret service won't allow the president to go anywhere they deem insecure.

This. If anyone said he couldn't go in the locker room, it was the SS.

Or JB.