Your right Top of the World, the teacher in me just doesn't tolerate hate well, and the SJFisher loss still fresh in my team's heart and mind just made it worse. My Catholic guilt tells me you're right, the 20hr. days,24/7 got to me at the wrong time. The Coach K analogy you made is not completely  true however, I recommend you find a book called "Blue BLood" by Art Chansky, the story of the Duke-NC rivalry. I was amazed at some of the things Coach K did to control the media and bloggers when he went down in the 1995 season, and more recently in the past decade. If you get a chance read it, a basketball guy like you would really appreciate it. Thanks Again

      First of all, I don't hide who I am as you bravely do, nor was I even intending to post until it was obvious that you have directed venom at me  and my program. I probably will not have to post anymore,because my players past and present will deal with the poison that comes from your pen. I tried to articulate for you the differences in building a program with no team as a part-time coach(which i still am)Rankis and St. John are full-time and have been for a while. Since you took shots at me and my team at least read everything and understand it and not just about the record. I dont deny anything about what Richard means to me and the program, and my record prior to Baptiste was hindered by some of he things mentioned in the previous post. So, should I be nasty and say Rankis is 1-3 in CUNY title games,in over 30 years, or St. John is 3-8  In CUNY FInals, while I'm 2-0 in the 11 years I was allowed to play in the tourney?  You made the posting ugly and when you got called out on it you got nasty. And it seems once again that you ignore facts and only use whateer you find to suit you. So here's another. Brooklyn beat Old Westbury, NJCU and Widener out of conference this season, the last two away. Now i'm truly sorry about the York remark, my fellow posters were of the opinion that you may be a York graduate.  I truly respect and enjoy coaching against Rankis and St. John, Petosa and Fenn, Stampfel and Schulmann, Plevritis and Pursoo, and Winston. Since I believe no one should just throw hate around for no good reason, I think you should restrict your remarks to players and not take shots at programs. I will always be close to Baptiste for everything he meant to me and the program, but his supporting cast was better than you would ever imagine.

   Just to continue and put the Brooklyn and Podias hating to bed, in the last two CUNY FINALS, where BROOKLYN was the lower seed and therefore the underdog, and Brooklyn was up against Queens' favorite team and legendary coaches Rankis and St. John, Brooklyn had no points from Baptiste at halftime, yet they led by six and went on to win by 20 points against an undefeated CUNY team. This year Baptiste vs. York gets his fourth foul with almost 13 mins. to go, sits on the bench and Brooklyn increases the lead until Baptiste gets back with five to go as Brooklyn won again. You call that bad coaching QUEENS! You Say Brooklyn only has Baptiste! These are facts, not ridiculous HATING commentary. How would you like to have two CUNY Championships Back-to Back won against superior teams  as you allege. By the way did Brooklyn lose to Fisher by more than double-digits as you predicted? You are such a WRONG GUY, you should be removed from this Board, especially since everything you say is motivated by HATE, and NOT reality.

For the record Queens, Podias recruited Baptiste out of St. John's Prep and rescued him from a JUCO in Texas where he left unhappy and disillusioned as he has always said in the print media. But since you are not big on facts, and maybe you can't read, perhaps that York education of yours failed you once again. Podias appreciates what Baptiste has done for him and BC, and the reverse is also true. As far as the losing prior to Baptiste, Podias build the program from nothing in 1995, and was not even allowed to participate in the CUNY tourney due to NCAA regulations untill 1999, when Brooklyn became a full-fledged dIII member. Everyone knows how hard it is to recruit when you are not allowed to play for anything for 4 years and then there is how hard it is to get into Brooklyn. York doesn't really stop anyone at the academic door as has been well documented here before. Then the few players Podias got in the early part of this decade when the team was struggling would be academically ineligible before they got to play in 80% of the CUNY schedule. Show me teams in the last few years in CUNY that have had All-Stars on teams that lost 20 games or in that vicinity.
There were never players declared academically ineligible at York or CSI or even Baruch during that time span. CCNY had some nice players and won two chips which proves that coaches need good players to win. So now Podias gets Guerin, Baptiste, Nisbett, John, Russell, Hemingway, Cudjoe, Purisic among others, keeps them together for years and builds a succcessful program and you can't SEE that Queens!                                                                                       

Perhaps I don't understand all of Knight Slappy's criteria, but how can Brooklyn be omitted from the Atlantic when they beat Old Westbury and Baruch head to head,have a better conference record than most of those teams(10-1,tied 1st CUNYAC), have a better strength of schedule than SUNY MARITIME, and have won 12 games in a row to be 17-5. Baruch hasn't beaten anyone good since December. Does head to head play mean nothing?

     You know that people seem to care more about who is who on this broad than what is being said, so for the record swingO and Defense are related and one is an alumnus of Brooklyn College. So there for all you CSI-NY fans-I hope you make it on television, but for the record Brooklyn doesn't deserve to get bashed by Xalva every chance he gets because in the place where it counts, the court , without Weismuller, Brooklyn beat Hunter by 19 points!!!!!!! So much for non-conference! Hunter didn't beat CSI or York yet ,and Brooklyn beat both! Since the size of the Court argument didn't work, I guess Xalva needs to be a snoop. By the way Xalva, I actually know who you are, but I'm not classless like some who write on this board. By the way, at The College of New Jersey-Brooklyn 76 CNJ 60

 Brooklyn beat York at York by forcing 32 turnovers, Lehman at Lehman by forcing 28 turnovers and are 3-0 in Conference play on the road. Check the Box Scores.So which of these gyms is small and adds 15 points to Brooklyn's press, Xalva? Good Defense travels on the road as well, and when last seen the floor at York is made of the same stuff as that at CCNY

 Fresh Perspective and Pat Coleman deserve kudos for pointing out the flaws in Coach AG's "cheap shot" at Brooklyn College where he himself played, graduated and coached and was always treated well by Coach P. One could ask why Coach AG left CSI to play and graduate at Brooklyn,but We won't stoop to that level. He also played with the older Weismuller in his Senior Season. By the way, leveling accusations at people without knowing the facts and the current NCAA rules is not a way to do business. In fact there is an article in December from the Staten Island Advance which articulated the fact that Weismuller's transfer was done properly between the two schools and Jason Fein(CSI AD) was actually quoted as saying as much. Coach AG has always been a class act, but his post was wrong and somewhat hateful.

 Brooklyn defeated Greensboro early in the year just before they beat at that time #3 Guilford, and then Brooklyn beat York, at York, a week after York beat NYU. So much for the non-conference argument. Besides, perhaps Coach Podias knows how tough January could be with their style of play and thus schedules a Berkeley in between a tough stretch of games(they have 13 in January) for the purpose of resting players and getting them re-energized for the long haul. You can always make a case either way, I just thought of the irony of that  game being scheduled right in the middle of that 13 game stretch.

 Baptiste has some injuries which he plays thru so it's quite probable Coach Podias rested him in order to be healthier for Lehman and City Tech. He went out after hurting his foot a few times vs. Baruch.

 I agree with Rhodes because there is parity all over the Conference and John Jay added two good players in Desir and Garcia who played huge roles in John Jay's win at Brooklyn. It was Sean Weismuller's first game with Brooklyn and he fouled out in less than 20 minutes. It looks like Weismuller has a ways to go to fit into Coach Podias' all out defensive pressure system, because the Bridges seemed to drop back the pressure when he was in the game vs. John Jay. There may be a lot of truth to what knight says about incorporating new players in mid-stream no matter how good the chemistry is.

 The tournament was a DIII type tournament which featured Pratt when they were pretty decent in the early 90's, Medgar Evers, Polytechnic Univ. and St. Joseph's College. Now with Brooklyn College and New York City Tech, the idea is to get a local rivalry tournament going since these DIII games between the schools are very competitive and now they all belong to conferences.  If you're looking for DI tourneys in Brooklyn, only two schools fit the profile. So as far as DIII fans go, King of Kings would be the best of DIII Brooklyn Schools.

The Coach at Brooklyn College intends to revive it as soon as their new Athletics complex is finished, which may be late in 2008. He already has gotten verbals from most of the Brooklyn Schools about it and everyone wants to bring it back.

Hey Coach AG:


                 I know who you are because I'm related to the person who runs that system-by the way didn't you play for that coach? He always talks about how good you were.Good Luck with CSI in the tourney.

Asked of a few players who were aware of the situation.