Fun with analogies and fist-shaking!

Jason Whitlock is taking issue with Jim Calhoun's weekend press conference spat in connection with a question regarding his salary.

Jim Calhoun's "got to feed his family," too.

[Let the misplaced analogizing begin!]

Sprewell submarined the last few years of his NBA career when he foolishly claimed insult over a three-year, $27 million contract offer from the T-Wolves and uttered words that live in infamy: "I got to feed my family." Calhoun blabbered words equally as brainless on Saturday when a citizen journalist/activist slipped into Calhoun's postgame news conference and wondered how Calhoun felt about being the state's highest-paid employee when the state is going bankrupt and government employees are being terminated, laid off, pink-slipped and separated from their health insurance.

[These are two fairly different situations, right? (1) A guy responding to an *offered* amount of money, and (2) a guy responding to a query about an amount of money he *already* makes (as a result of a bilaterally negotiated contract). But, yeah, let's just pretend they are the same. It's easier that way.]

But Sprewell and Calhoun share a common characteristic.

[Ummm, that they were/are both prominent basketball figures?]

They deserted reality years ago and have a deep belief in their own importance.

[That was my next guess!]

Only arrogance and greed would make a man take the bait. Calhoun believes he's underpaid. That's why he ranted about his basketball program generating $12 million.

[Let the fist-shaking begin!]

Jim Calhoun is doing the entire state of Connecticut a gigantic favor funneling kids through the academic charade and winning basketball games for the entertainment of alumnus, boosters, faculty and students.

[I know Whitlock is being sarcastic here, but hasn't he kind of stumbled upon the kill-shot to his own tirade? For a state that is "going bankrupt," isn't Calhoun ACTUALLY doing said state a "gigantic favor" by generating $12 million dollars while only be paid about 10% of that amount?? Seems like the state would welcome that kind of return, no?]

No one wants Calhoun to refund any of his money.

[Then what's the point of this article? That Calhoun needs sensitivity training? Great scoop.]

Calhoun isn't Roger Goodell.... Goodell recently accepted a 20 percent pay cut from his $11 million salary. Does Roger feel your pain? Maybe. Maybe not. He's probably just negotiating with the NFLPA. Goodell's league is headed toward an economic showdown with its players. He'll soon be asking the players to take a lot less than what they're expecting, and he'll be able to say he's in the same boat.

[Again, something that Calhoun will NOT have to do. He's a state employee.]

Goodell is smart. Calhoun is arrogant and delusional.

[Why do I even bother reading this stuff? Where is Nils already? Stop making me read Whitlock.]

And I'm equally sure that Geno Auriemma, Connecticut's women's coach, and his peers were Calhoun's most frequent callers. The most passionate supporters of Title IX are the overpaid women's basketball coaches who play in front of volleyball crowds and get paid every two weeks as if they're filling Michigan's football Big House.

[We get it! You have a problem with coaches' salaries.]

I don't have a problem with the salaries of coaches....

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Sorry. I just hurled my laptop out of the window. Surprisingly sturdy.]

I have a problem when coaches/athletes lose touch with reality, rub their ble$$ing in our faces and carry themselves like they're above being queried about the economic flaw in our democracy.

[Whitlock doesn't have a "problem" with coaches' salaries, he only thinks that they are an "economic flaw in our democracy."

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