Putting yourself in the coaches shoes, during the middle of a regional, I don't blame him. They've proven their they're there to compete.
Yeah- poor question for a short segment- focus on what they did. But as others have said, don't act ungrateful. If you want, turn it back around to focusing on games, whatever. But just saying.... "yeah we got it, didn't use it. Wrong color." Super rude- that'd be if it were us or something completely unrelated- tornado relief, whatever.
And, if you can't use it, hopefully you let those donating know so they can pick out what they want to do with it. It's not a deal where you get to trash it or just hand away to whoever and they get to keep it as an extra.
I hate how we always have to make kind gestures like this nothing more than a huge publicity stunt.
The JSU coach could have and should have handled that better. That being said it made me a little uneasy the way our giving them the equipment was publicized. To me that's the kind of thing you do quietly. I don't think the publicity was coming from our athletic department necessarily, but it did seem like some people were making quite the show of us donating equipment to them in their time of need.
Yeah, but a simple "That was a nice gesture and we thank them, but now we have to beat them" or something along those lines would have sufficed. He came off as ungrateful.
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