Monday Morning Mock Draft: God I Hate That Guy

This weeks’ draft comes from Scotchnaut, a frequent contributor to these topics and local hobo control.  The less said about the latter the better I suppose, but as to the former he’s got a solid topic this week, so here we go.

This week we’re picking players or coaches that you love to root against.  We did something similar last year with schadenfreude for teams, but in this version we’re not doing teams, and there’s no specific instance of the individual losing necessary.

No real restrictions on this one, if there was a guy in Little League you hated go right ahead and pick them.  We’re big fans of petty here.  Unless your pick is Richard Petty, (can’t be Kyle Petty; guy never won anything), in which case you go right ahead and pick him.

Scotchy came up with the topic, so he gets the first pick.  Fortunately he already gave me his pick so I don’t have to worry about his never checking his DMs, (probably because he had to pull the battery out of his phone so as to keep his whereabouts from those busybody authorities), and I can therefore report from Scotchy:  “My example would be Pat Ewing at Georgetown-hated that team, hated that guy but loved watching college ball back then so I’d watch him and hoped he’d fuck up.”

With the second pick I’ll take the ol’ nose-picker himself, Jimmy Boeheim.

Look, Boeheim is a Hall-of-Fame coach.  Literally.  I used to hate him because Syracuse would always whip up on UConn, then UConn got good and Syracuse stayed good, so I hated him because there was a rivalry, with real consequences to every game.  That’s good sports hate.  Now I want Boeheim to fail because he’s an arrogant ass who has stayed well past his expiration date, who backstabs players not named Boeheim, and who storms out of press conferences when asked perfectly legitimate questions.  Watching them lose by 20, (and it wasn’t that close), to Georgia Tech, as GT rained threes over Jim’s beloved zone, was truly a good time.

I love watching Boeheim fail, and as a Uconn fan I hope he never retires.

The rest of you are on the clock.  Ten picks or 30 minutes, and beware the witching hour.