The saga of Aubrey Coleman was supposed to be over. Alas, it is not, as the Houston Chronicle's The Z Report captured these quotes of Houston coach Tom Penders claiming ESPN doctored the footage of Coleman stomping on Arizona forward Chase Budinger's face.

"Yeah, I saw it. I thought it was a real -- they doctored it up. They put this X-ray vision thing in to make it look like Aubrey [Coleman] was looking down, which painted a very poor picture of what actually happened. You have replays from the game where they went through the entire sequence and slow motion and everything else and Aubrey's eyes never look anything but straight ahead and up to the ceiling when the officials give him the charge signal. ESPN made it look like he was looking down. I thought it was a total distortion.

"And I think it was intentional on their part, because I've worked there, and I've seen them do these kinds of things. You can do a lot with television, they can doctor it up, they can make it look like someone's looking in another direction. It's very easy to do for them. And I called the producer up there that I know, named Norby Williamson, he's pretty high up there. I called him at least three times and left messages with him, and since he hasn't returned the phone call and it's a very newsy thing I feel it was intentionally done to harm Aubrey, to make him look like he is a real villian. In other words, he was tried and conviced without a jury, without a defense."

Yes, Penders is convinced that ESPN was out to make Coleman look like a villian, and that they intentionally doctored the footage to that aim. It's more than a little farfetched, but it isn't completely impossible, either. The vision-cone ESPN used to show Coleman's vision was a bit dramatic. It's possible to see that as a "distortion," I guess. Still, it's not as though ESPN can plainly doctor footage without anyone noticing. In short, I have no idea what to make of this.

In any case, you can hear the entire audio after the jump and re-watch the footage to see for yourself. Either Tom Penders is on to something, or that's the craziest thing a professional basketball coach has said since Bob Knight was employed.

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