{"id":2817,"date":"2024-11-25T19:23:57","date_gmt":"2024-11-25T19:23:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ventil.rs\/blog\/sports\/cooley-calls-comment-about-illinois-poor-choice\/"},"modified":"2024-11-25T19:23:57","modified_gmt":"2024-11-25T19:23:57","slug":"cooley-calls-comment-about-illinois-poor-choice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ventil.rs\/blog\/sports\/cooley-calls-comment-about-illinois-poor-choice\/","title":{"rendered":"Cooley calls comment about Illinois &#8216;poor choice&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"article-meta\"><span class=\"timestamp \">Nov 23, 2024, 08:14 PM ET<\/span><\/div>\n<p>WASHINGTON &#8212; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/mens-college-basketball\/team\/_\/id\/46\/georgetown-hoyas\">Georgetown<\/a> coach Ed Cooley acknowledged he made a mistake for a derogatory comment he made about <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/mens-college-basketball\/team\/_\/id\/356\/illinois-fighting-illini\">Illinois<\/a> after his team beat <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/mens-college-basketball\/team\/_\/id\/2598\/st-francis-pa-red-flash\">Saint Francis<\/a> at home earlier Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Cooley used colorful language to disparage Illinois when talking about junior guard <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/mens-college-basketball\/player\/_\/id\/5105791\/jayden-epps\">Jayden Epps<\/a>, who played his freshman season there.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"inline editorial float-r\" data-behavior=\"article_related\">\n<h2 class=\"editorial-title\">Editor&#8217;s Picks<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><a name=\"&amp;lpos=story:editorspicks:inline:1\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/mens-college-basketball\/story\/_\/id\/42510695\/mens-college-basketball-power-rankings-2024-25-marquette-wisconsin\" class=\"img-link\"><\/a><\/li>\n<li><a name=\"&amp;lpos=story:editorspicks:inline:2\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/mens-college-basketball\/story\/_\/id\/42534364\/top-25-mens-college-basketball-freshman-seasons-25-years-flagg-davis-zion\" class=\"img-link\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/a.espncdn.com\/combiner\/i?img=\/photo\/2019\/0331\/r522259_1296x1296_1-1.jpg&amp;w=130&amp;h=130&amp;scale=crop&amp;location=center\" width=\"65\" height=\"65\"\/><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>1 Related<\/p>\n<\/aside>\n<p>&#8220;His development defensively, it&#8217;s almost like it&#8217;s a new player,&#8221; Cooley said of Epps after the Hoyas&#8217; 82-65 victory.<\/p>\n<p>He then made the comment about Illinois, without naming the school.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m pretty sure that&#8217;ll make national news when I say that, but I never said the school it was,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>Shortly afterward, he went on social media and acknowledged he erred.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;My comment today was said in jest with one of my players, but I admit it was a poor choice of words,&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/HoyaCoachCooley\/status\/1860430659539329096\">Cooley wrote<\/a>. &#8220;I have the utmost respect for the University of Illinois, its men&#8217;s basketball program, coaches and players.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Illini coach Brad Underwood, when asked about Cooley&#8217;s remarks, said he was more focused on upcoming opponents.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;That&#8217;s not even worth a waste of my time on,&#8221; Underwood said. &#8220;I don&#8217;t know what he was referencing that about, and Jayden had a productive freshman year here. But I&#8217;m not going to get into all that. I&#8217;ll let our fans and everybody else have some fun, which I&#8217;m sure they probably are.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><i>Information from The Associated Press was used in this report.<\/i><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/mens-college-basketball\/story\/_\/id\/42571072\/georgetown-cooley-apologizes-comment-illinois\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nov 23, 2024, 08:14 PM ET WASHINGTON &#8212; Georgetown coach Ed Cooley acknowledged he made a mistake for a derogatory comment he made about Illinois after his team beat Saint Francis at home earlier Saturday. 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