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Friday, April 21, 2006
More fun at Lehigh
We're not linking to this Morning Call story because it says Lehigh's Billy Taylor is talking to Penn about its vacant head coaching job. That is old news.

What makes this story worth commenting on are a couple of little lines that typify what the media covering Lehigh has had to deal with all year:
He had no further comment.

School officials said they would not allow players to comment, either
Please Billy, take the job. Not because we want to see the league lose a talented young coach. Not, as many Brown and Yellow fans would love to believe, because we want to see Lehigh's program suffer.

No, we want Billy to take the job for one reason only: So we can watch the fun when he tries to duck the Philly media, which will never give him the free pass he gets in the Lehigh Valley.

Imagine Taylor trying to get through a Joe Knight-type situation without commenting, without telling the truth about why a star player is missing in the season opener. Imagine trying to tell Philly reporters covering a Penn game that questions have to be limited to that night's game during a postgame press conference.

Back in Bethlehem, Lehigh will still get away with the you can't talk to our players stuff because the Morning Call will continue to give them that free pass. But Billy in Philly will get the education in dealing with the media that he needs before moving on to the big time, as many think is his destiny.

By the way, the Philadelphia Inquirer is calling Taylor Penn's leading candidate in today's editions.
Published at 6:38 AM by Hoop Time.
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