You know what's really fun? Spending money on old-school Grant Hill shoes you totally forgot existed. Know what might be even more fun than that? Watching a coach wage open battle with the media, a fight that a) the coach will never win and b) is, after the dust eventually settles, probably pointless in the first place. In the endless struggle by college basketball chieftains exert influence on the press, sometimes things spill over. And, like I said, that's when it gets really fun.

The latest battle? Bobby Gonzalez vs. Adam Zagoria. Gonzalez is the head coach at Seton Hall, while Zagoria is a recruiting and general hoops reporter for SNY.tv in New York. (Zagoria's blog is a must-read for recruiting info and random daily tidbits.) Gonzalez, apparently not a very nice guy in the first place, is especially peeved at Zagoria over some perceived slight in a radio interview Zagoria gave to Seton Hall's student station. Gonzalez's response? According to Zagoria, it's all-out war:

Twice in recent days Gonzalez has openly threatened to cut off this reporter and SNY from covering his team because of comments I made during a recent interview with WSOU, Seton Hall's student radio station, the full transcript of which is available on my blog for anyone to read. Gonzo made these threats once in an expletive-filled, three-way phone call with one of his assistants last Friday, and a second time in front of several Seton Hall staff members in a hallway at the Prudential Center after the Pirates beat Columbia on Sunday.

"Who the f--- are you?" Gonzalez screamed into the phone at me last week, with his assistant on the line. "Who the f--- do you think you are? I'll cut you off. I'll cut you off from my players." He also said he would somehow find a way to cut me off from the AAU coaches whose players consider Seton Hall.

Yes! Media fight! We're officially intrigued. Keep going, Zagoria:

Twice I asked Gonzalez -- once during his expletive-laced phone call and again after the Columbia game -- if he could name a single thing I wrote that was inaccurate or untrue. He couldn't. He doesn't care about truth and accuracy. He cares about who is toeing his party line on recruiting.

What follows is a bunch of detailed stuff about why Gonzalez is mad, who he's mad at, and why he's wrong, but that's all just the appetizer for Zagoria's piping hot entreé of sonnage:

Recruiting is all about people skills, and maybe that's as far as you have look to explain Seton Hall's situation. 

Oh. Snap.

I can already imagine how this ends: Gonzalez reads this, has some sort of Nixonian freak-out, calms down, realizes that he has to deal with the media if he's ever going to get out of Seton Hall alive, and apologizes accordingly. I imagine this apology will last about two weeks. Then he'll pick a fight again.

Frankly, I can't wait.

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