Lenn Robbins is a clown

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 His latest article in the Post wherein he unjustfiably takes a shot at Mo Hicks and quotes a Big East source makes it clear that the Redmen should limit his access to the team and give other writers first dibs on interviews, etc. going forward.
His article may has well have been written by Calhoun or some of the other whiners in the big East who are sweating the Redmen Revival.
 
I agree, he's trying to make a story out of nothing. He's trying to make Moe Hicks and St. John's look bad. I lost a lot of respect for him with that article. And that quote from the "Big East person" was completely absurd.
 
 Agree with both posts in this thread.
A very weak article and a lousy quote to throw in.
Does not deserve to be around the team going forward.
 
 Sometimes when news is lean and paper needs to be filled, some of these writers manufacture a story. LR is one of the writers who does that much more often than he should.
 
 Sometimes when news is lean and paper needs to be filled, some of these writers manufacture a story. LR is one of the writers who does that much more often than he should.
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Len Robbins writes for a rag of a paper. He lacks the creative talent to manufacture ANY story! He owes coach Hicks an apology and until he does he should be given limited access to the program. If he wants to write about a NY college team let him focus on Syracuse! Maybe he can manufacture a story about their athletes' academic achievements or lack thereof that would have prevented them from participating in the NCAA under new rules.  
 
 Sometimes when news is lean and paper needs to be filled, some of these writers manufacture a story. LR is one of the writers who does that much more often than he should.
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Len Robbins writes for a rag of a paper. He lacks the creative talent to manufacture ANY story! He owes coach Hicks an apology and until he does he should be given limited access to the program. If he wants to write about a NY college team let him focus on Syracuse! Maybe he can manufacture a story about their athletes' academic achievements or lack thereof that would have prevented them from participating in the NCAA under new rules.  
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Post may be a rag to some people but it still has the best sports section in NY. 
 
 Hicks a dot in this story if that. If Lenn wants to pretend he's a journalist Shalala got to be the story. Her reason for pulling Miami out of BE and into ACC had to do with there being less pressure to win. Her claim was the sports programs could be ordinary and come out ok in ACC where as they had to excel in the BE. She was committed to bringing in more student athlete types then the hard cases that had necessary in the past. It was about the ACC having a better TV contract is all. Well Donna did not bother to follow through after going on the record. She should be gone, and thats the story.
 
 His latest article in the Post wherein he unjustfiably takes a shot at Mo Hicks and quotes a Big East source makes it clear that the Redmen should limit his access to the team and give other writers first dibs on interviews, etc. going forward.His article may has well have been written by Calhoun or some of the other whiners in the big East who are sweating the Redmen Revival.
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Robbins article could not be more innocuous or straight forward. All he does is state the same facts about Hicks that were stated in the Yahoo article and he quite reasonably points out that bad publicity and rumors about recruiting violations are the last thing a suddenly on the rise program would like to see. Nowhere in the article does Robbins "take a shot" at Hicks; he describes SJ involvement as peripheral and notes that SJ is not at all implicated and faces no liability. Short of the gentle treatment he gave it - a bland story released on Friday afternoon - he could not have been less hostile. A more gentle treatment would have involved not mentioning the the story at all. Which, considering that the story is about the involvement of a NY born arch criminal in the corruption of a then BE school, would have been journalistic malpractice.

The fact is that if Hicks did nothing wrong - and there's no indication that he did - then no harm can come to SJ. If that's the case there's no reason to be concerned if Hicks is mentioned in one story in the Post or a hundred. The idea of banning Robbins and his paper from covering the team on the basis of 10 or 12 sentences in which he reports that a non SJ employee is not implicated a scandal in which SJ is not implicated is paranoid and borderline insane.

Perhaps SJ has been a mom and pop operation too long. Because the first whiff of the rigors of big time college athletics has fans calling for an innocent man to be fired and the guy who reported his innocence to be ostracized. Genyiouses like Jim Calhoun - you call him a whiner, I call him the greatest coach of his generation and perhaps the greatest coach in the history of college basketball - laughs off stories like this. If it happened to Jim Boeheim he’d roll his eyes and call the reporter a nitwit. Mike Screwshrenski would suffer a debilitating back injury while running up the clock to get away from the farmer's wife and blame the whole thing on Pete Gaudet. Hopefully TGAPL has a similar strategy for dealing with adversity. Because the great ones are great in part because they know how to react ingratiatingly when things aren't necessarily going their way. Hopefully TGAPL doesn't start wetting his pants at the first sign of rough going, which seems to be the course of action recommended by at least part of his fan base.
 
 His latest article in the Post wherein he unjustfiably takes a shot at Mo Hicks and quotes a Big East source makes it clear that the Redmen should limit his access to the team and give other writers first dibs on interviews, etc. going forward.His article may has well have been written by Calhoun or some of the other whiners in the big East who are sweating the Redmen Revival.
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Robbins article could not be more innocuous or straight forward. All he does is state the same facts about Hicks that were stated in the Yahoo article and he quite reasonably points out that bad publicity and rumors about recruiting violations are the last thing a suddenly on the rise program would like to see. Nowhere in the article does Robbins "take a shot" at Hicks; he describes SJ involvement as peripheral and notes that SJ is not at all implicated and faces no liability. Short of the gentle treatment he gave it - a bland story released on Friday afternoon - he could not have been less hostile. A more gentle treatment would have involved not mentioning the the story at all. Which, considering that the story is about the involvement of a NY born arch criminal in the corruption of a then BE school, would have been journalistic malpractice.

The fact is that if Hicks did nothing wrong - and there's no indication that he did - then no harm can come to SJ. If that's the case there's no reason to be concerned if Hicks is mentioned in one story in the Post or a hundred. The idea of banning Robbins and his paper from covering the team on the basis of 10 or 12 sentences in which he reports that a non SJ employee is not implicated a scandal in which SJ is not implicated is paranoid and borderline insane.

Perhaps SJ has been a mom and pop operation too long. Because the first whiff of the rigors of big time college athletics has fans calling for an innocent man to be fired and the guy who reported his innocence to be ostracized. Genyiouses like Jim Calhoun - you call him a whiner, I call him the greatest coach of his generation and perhaps the greatest coach in the history of college basketball - laughs off stories like this. If it happened to Jim Boeheim he’d roll his eyes and call the reporter a nitwit. Mike Screwshrenski would suffer a debilitating back injury while running up the clock to get away from the farmer's wife and blame the whole thing on Pete Gaudet. Hopefully TGAPL has a similar strategy for dealing with adversity. Because the great ones are great in part because they know how to react ingratiatingly when things aren't necessarily going their way. Hopefully TGAPL doesn't start wetting his pants at the first sign of rough going, which seems to be the course of action recommended by at least part of his fan base.
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Starting to agree with you fun. Maybe it's just me. We're not used to winning. I guess this stuff comes with the territory. They say "act like you've been there before". Maybe I'm just being a weenie...
 
Well put, Fun.

I don't necessarily like or agree with everything Robbins writes, but the important thing is that he, more than any other journalist, keeps the spotlight on us in the sports pages. On the whole, I find him to be pro-St. John's (to a fault according to fans of other local programs) and to restrict his access to the team would be ridiculous, bush league, and counterproductive. 
 
 He devotes a column to the Miami fiasco and then nothing about our receiving a new commitment.
Come on.
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Zach Braziller did:

http://www.nypost.com/p/sports/college/basketball/sg_wood_commits_to_storm_940Hw4k15OuKEL0qWasJbP
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If this were an in-season weekend, one might have a beef. But news of Wood's commitment broke on a mid-August weekend, so it's not unusual (or sinister) that someone other than Robbins would write about it. The commitment wasn't even mentioned in the Daily News, Newsday, the Times (no surprise), or on ESPN.com.

I think a good deal of the resentment shown toward Robbins is based in his unswerving defense of Roberts' stewardship of the program. But to suggest he's anti-St. John's and should be punished and not given access to the team simply for opining on a story that's in the national spotlight is absurd.
 
 We should all be very happy that Robbins is publishing articles about SJU. I will tell you that if you read the SHU boards, they are paranoid and think that Lavin and Robbins have some sort of conspiracy against them. I kid you not. Lenn Robbins loves our staff and SJU. Be thankful that we're in the papers.
 
 We should all be very happy that Robbins is publishing articles about SJU. I will tell you that if you read the SHU boards, they are paranoid and think that Lavin and Robbins have some sort of conspiracy against them. I kid you not. Lenn Robbins loves our staff and SJU. Be thankful that we're in the papers.
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I saw that, MCN. Most of the posters on that particular board are clowns! I had nothing against Seton Hall, but I'd love to see that program continue to be one of the bottom-feeders of the conference. Sheesh!
 
 We should all be very happy that Robbins is publishing articles about SJU. I will tell you that if you read the SHU boards, they are paranoid and think that Lavin and Robbins have some sort of conspiracy against them. I kid you not. Lenn Robbins loves our staff and SJU. Be thankful that we're in the papers.
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I want SJU in the papers, but not like this. Lenn may very well be a strong supporter of SJU, but he's not showing it here. He is going out of his way to make Moe Hicks and St. John's look bad by writing a story that has no real legs.
 
 We should all be very happy that Robbins is publishing articles about SJU. I will tell you that if you read the SHU boards, they are paranoid and think that Lavin and Robbins have some sort of conspiracy against them. I kid you not. Lenn Robbins loves our staff and SJU. Be thankful that we're in the papers.
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I saw that, MCN. Most of the posters on that particular board are clowns! I had nothing against Seton Hall, but I'd love to see that program continue to be one of the bottom-feeders of the conference. Sheesh!
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That board really is sad to read. It reminds me so much of this board in the last few years of Norm's career. They have posters trying to justify Willard's recruiting and saying mediocre recruits are diamonds in the rough, while still holding onto a glimmer of hope that they will land the big fish (KA to our Lance Stephenson). Not saying Willard is or will be as bad as Norm, but I notice a lot of similarities between SHU and the SJU of the Norm years.
 
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