Coach Staley and Coach Yo will not be right here for the disrespect from the announcer. The Ole Miss coach says she’s “really grateful” for her progress.
South Carolina ladies’s basketball coach Daybreak Staley publicly defended Yolett McPhee-McCuin after an announcer made a shady remark in regards to the Ole Miss ladies’s basketball coach throughout Sunday’s recreation towards Vanderbilt.
After McPhee-McCuin referred to as a timeout for Ole Miss with simply 54.7 seconds remaining of Sunday’s face-off towards Vanderbilt, announcer Andrew Allegretta had a choose selection of phrases to explain the 42-year-old’s teaching fashion. “I say this respectfully,” Allegretta stated in a clip from the reside stream. “And he or she’s achieved an unbelievable job. She has three consecutive NCAA tournaments. I can see why a few of Coach Yo can be an acquired style. It’s loads of bombastic motions on the sideline and all of that form of stuff. Working the officers. Timeouts if you’re up by, what, 15 factors. All of that form of stuff.”
Allegretta, Vanderbilt’s director of radio broadcasting, referred to as the sport alongside Drew Maddux for SEC Community+.
Coach Staley, a three-time NCAA champion and the highest-paid coach in ladies’s basketball, as beforehand talked about by BLACK ENTERPRISE, took Allegretta’s remark about McPhee-McCuin as a private assault.
“Awoke this [morning] to this and got here again to it as a result of it’s simply unsuitable,” Staley wrote on X. “A private assault on one in all our[s] is a private assault on all of us, together with who you might be broadcasting for.” She tagged the Ole Miss coach in her put up with a reminder for McPhee-McCuin to maintain being her “genuine self,” adopted by a fast message for the Vanderbilt announcer: “Broadcaster, maintain being your self as a result of we see you!”
Awoke this am to this and got here again to it as a result of it’s simply unsuitable. A private assault on one in all our is a private assault on all of us together with who you might be broadcasting for. @YolettMcCuin maintain being your genuine self. Broadcaster maintain being your self as a result of we see you! pic.twitter.com/MtL0j90YIQ
McPhee-McCuin has been with The Rebels for 17 years and stood by her determination to name the last-minute timeout. On X, she defined that she was making an attempt to keep away from a turnover. “We had been being pressed with 15 [seconds] to go,” she wrote. Nevertheless, as for the disrespect from Vanderbilt announcers, Coach Yo feels the habits was “classless, pointless, and uncalled for.” She said on Sunday evening that she is “really grateful” for her progress “in lately and occasions.”
The disrespect from Vanderbilt’s television announcers was classless, pointless and uncalled for! Im really grateful for my progress in lately and occasions! In order that’s all I’m going to say about it! God Bless!
The Ole Miss coach and her workforce walked away with the win towards the Nashville workforce, 76-61. The sport marked the 57th matchup between the 2 groups, with The Rebels boasting its longest profitable streak within the collection towards The Commodores, which started in 1978.
Daybreak Staley Defends Ole Miss Coach Amid Announcer’s Remark
by Stacy Jackson
February 6, 2025
Coach Staley and Coach Yo will not be right here for the disrespect from the announcer. The Ole Miss coach says she’s “really grateful” for her progress.
South Carolina ladies’s basketball coach Daybreak Staley publicly defended Yolett McPhee-McCuin after an announcer made a shady remark in regards to the Ole Miss ladies’s basketball coach throughout Sunday’s recreation towards Vanderbilt.
After McPhee-McCuin referred to as a timeout for Ole Miss with simply 54.7 seconds remaining of Sunday’s face-off towards Vanderbilt, announcer Andrew Allegretta had a choose selection of phrases to explain the 42-year-old’s teaching fashion. “I say this respectfully,” Allegretta stated in a clip from the reside stream. “And he or she’s achieved an unbelievable job. She has three consecutive NCAA tournaments. I can see why a few of Coach Yo can be an acquired style. It’s loads of bombastic motions on the sideline and all of that form of stuff. Working the officers. Timeouts if you’re up by, what, 15 factors. All of that form of stuff.”
Allegretta, Vanderbilt’s director of radio broadcasting, referred to as the sport alongside Drew Maddux for SEC Community+.
Coach Staley, a three-time NCAA champion and the highest-paid coach in ladies’s basketball, as beforehand talked about by BLACK ENTERPRISE, took Allegretta’s remark about McPhee-McCuin as a private assault.
“Awoke this [morning] to this and got here again to it as a result of it’s simply unsuitable,” Staley wrote on X. “A private assault on one in all our[s] is a private assault on all of us, together with who you might be broadcasting for.” She tagged the Ole Miss coach in her put up with a reminder for McPhee-McCuin to maintain being her “genuine self,” adopted by a fast message for the Vanderbilt announcer: “Broadcaster, maintain being your self as a result of we see you!”
McPhee-McCuin has been with The Rebels for 17 years and stood by her determination to name the last-minute timeout. On X, she defined that she was making an attempt to keep away from a turnover. “We had been being pressed with 15 [seconds] to go,” she wrote. Nevertheless, as for the disrespect from Vanderbilt announcers, Coach Yo feels the habits was “classless, pointless, and uncalled for.” She said on Sunday evening that she is “really grateful” for her progress “in lately and occasions.”
The Ole Miss coach and her workforce walked away with the win towards the Nashville workforce, 76-61. The sport marked the 57th matchup between the 2 groups, with The Rebels boasting its longest profitable streak within the collection towards The Commodores, which started in 1978.
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