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BostonBengal Founding Member

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Sounds like Pokey and Mulke-Robinson got into a little "tiff" after the game last night. :shock:

Don't know whether Mulke-Robinson was just a little sore at getting their butts handed to them and took things a little too seriously, or if Pokey had perhaps a bit revenge on the mind and said something?

http://sports.espn.go.com/ncw/news/story?id=2312876

BostonBengal, Jan 31, 2006

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Somone posted this on TD...sounds very credible to me:

I just got home (in Waco) on the Baylor charter plane from B.R. I talked with KMR personally on the plane about the confrontation.

First, to the person on the other thread that said "I talk to someone who knew KMR and he said it was about LSU still shooting 3's at the end." That person sounded like they were quoting me since I said exactly that after the game to someone behind me in the stands. I was just speculating what had happened. At the time, I had not talked to Kim. After visiting with Kim, my speculation was not correct.

This is what happened. Before the game, Kim and Pokey were shaking hands and Pokey grabbed Kim's hand real hard and said something like, "look, I'm shaking your hand for the camera's and crowd's sake, but I don't like you and the things you have said about me and that you have done to me." Kim had no idea what Pokey was talking about, but blew it off for the time being.

After the game, Kim reached for Pokey's hand, congratulated her on the game and told her that she [Pokey] had not earned the right to treat Kim in that manner. Pokey raised her arm, brushed off Kim and told her to get lost. Kim then talked to an assistant coach, not Sharky, and Kim said Pokey needed to address in Pokey's press conference what Pokey said to Kim before the game. The assistant coach told Kim to shove it.

Kim walked off the floor. I like both coaches. I talked to Pokey after the game and said good game; however, I think her pre-game comments were totally unwarranted and classless. If she doesn't like Kim, she should act like a professional and keep her comments to herself. A pre-game handshake is not the time to confront another coach. I think Kim had every right to tell Pokey after the game that what Pokey said during the pre-game was inappropriate. Yes, Kim just had her ass handed to her in the game, by a clearly superior team, but there was no reason for Pokey to treat her like that.

Kim and Baylor agreed to this mid-season match-up, in Baton Rouge, against a clearly more talented LSU team. Kim deserved more respect from Pokey than a classless pre-game comment. Pokey owes Kim an apology.

As an aside, I know personally, from Kim, that Pokey was involved in a very suspicious recruiting of the Arlington, Texas player. A player that wanted to attend Baylor, but whose parents refused to let her go to Baylor and made her go to LSU.

That is the real story about what happened tonight. It came staight from KMR's mouth. I'm an attorney and I realize there are 2 sides to every story, but Kim has never lied to me before and I don't think she is lying this time.

I still like Pokey and I will continue to be a die-hard fan for LSU [boys and girls programs]. The players and Pokey were very gracious to me and my daughter after the game and I think the players exhibit a class program all of the time and the coach, most of the time. This time was not one of those.

By the way, I am a life-long LSU fan (since 1963), my daughter was an LSU ball girl at the game tonight and Kim still let us fly down to B.R. with the Baylor team knowing we were LSU fans. I think that shows what class and friendship mean.
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philter, Jan 31, 2006

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I don't know what Pokey said, but I do know that Kim Mulkey was acting pretty cocky in interviews leading up to the game. Stuff like "I didn't have to review any film" (of LSU games before last years Final Four), and she was bragging about how her zone worked in that game.

SabanFan, Jan 31, 2006

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philter Founding Member

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Well here was my summary on the other board as I choose to see it

Let me summarize...

Beforfe the game, Pokey told KMR she's an ass for talking about her, KMR was not sure what she was talking about (perhaps because she's talked so much?)..

After a supreme ass whooping, no doubt worsened by the ill will before the game, KMR felt the need to knock Pokey down a little on teh social totem pole...so she told her 'you're too young and peon-ish to talk to me like that'.

Well anyone who's been spoken down to knows what happens next, you promptly tell that person to f-off..which Pokey did non-verbally by yanking her hand away from the shake and walking on. Basically a blow off.

This pissed KMR off even more, so she tried to go behind PC's back to get some closure...asst. coach told her to f-off too.

Apparently this is really affecting KMR's mental aura...as she spews on about it on the jet back to any person sitting next to her (even if said person promised not to say anything when he got back to his keyboard)...more than likely bringing up the recruiting tactics on the ride home.

All in all...Pokey felt disrespected, told her so before the game - perhaps in a disrespectful manner in her own right - and after the game felt disrespected again by being told she hadn't earned anything.

Frankly, while I wouldn't advice Pokey to say anything to her...given the fact she did, I don't blame Pokey one bit for blasting that ass in the game and giving her the slip shake afterwards.

GO POKEY!!!

philter, Jan 31, 2006

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Looks like words were exchanged before the game, which led to the postgame comments. May have something to do with a recruit out of Texas. A wwl-tv crew supposedly recorded part of the pregame exchange, but I have not seen it nor is it posted on their website.

Pokey/Mulkey Exchange

TigerWins, Jan 31, 2006

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As an aside, I know personally, from Kim, that Pokey was involved in a very suspicious recruiting of the Arlington, Texas player. A player that wanted to attend Baylor, but whose parents refused to let her go to Baylor and made her go to LSU.
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Sounds like KMR was running her mouth indeed.

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When Chatman and Mulkey-Robertson met courtside before the game, a WWL-TV camera recorded their conversation amid the din of the pregame festivities. That conversation included a reference to “Hightower.’’

As in Allison Hightower, a 5-foot-10 guard out of Arlington, Texas, that LSU signed in November. Rated as one of the nation’s top-10 recruits, the hope in the Lady Tigers camp is that Hightower can become LSU’s next Seimone Augustus.
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Looks like that was what it was about. Maybe it was KMR's unprofessional talk about recruiting that led to the exchange and it is her that owes Pokey an apology.

(LINK)http://www.2theadvocate.com/sports/lsu/2257346.html

TwistedTiger, Jan 31, 2006

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I noticed Pokey pulling her hand away in a violent manner, as if Kim was squeezing Pokey's hand and Pokey was trying to free her hand of Kim's grip. I wasn't sure if I had seen it correctly, but this confirms it.

Pure speculation on my part, but maybe Kim slammed Pokey's character or some other aspect of Pokey when persuading Hightower away from LSU and it got back to Pokey. That would seem likely, but again pure speculation.

Tygrr, Jan 31, 2006

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I was just reading some articles in the News section about that. Still not sure what it was about. Just that KMR was having a royal snit fit.

OkieTigerTK, Jan 31, 2006

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Did anyone notice during the game that it was reported by Rebecca Lobo that when a Baylor player came to a time-out with tears in her eyes (must stink to be taking such a beating--just ask any Miami football player), that KMR told her to stop because, "I don't care at all about this game!" Right...

StaceyO, Jan 31, 2006

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