The New Orleans Saints scored a touchdown when they shouldn't have, and everyone seems to feel some type of way about it.
Count LSU women's basketball coach Kim Mulkey on the side of the: "If the coach tells you to do something, you do it," side of the equation, as she explained to Bobby Hebert this week on WWL.
Listen to the full interview with Kim Mulkey in the player above. Can't see the embed? Click here.
“You put your knee on that ground and you do exactly what you’ve been told to do from the head coach," Mulkey said. "I don’t want to hear it was his first touchdown. You can tell me if he scored a touchdown he was gonna get a million dollars, no, you don’t do that. That is disrespectful not just to your head coach, it’s disrespectful to the other head coach and the other team, because what goes around in this business comes around. And I just didn’t even read the articles. I don’t want to hear anybody defending what they did, because that sends the wrong, wrong message.”
The situation being referenced was a touchdown handed to Jamaal Williams after head coach Dennis Allen called for a kneeldown to end the game. Instead the offense, led at that point by quarterback Jameis Winston, decided differently and ran a play out of the "victory" formation. It's widely considered to be a low blow move, with the defense laying back and the game being conceded. Mulkey compared it to basketball in the sense of a team that's leading by multiple scores and the shot clock turned off.
Related
She's always taught her teams that you'd better be standing just past halfcourt and dribbling the ball out. That's what you do. If another team didn't follow that blueprint and scored meaningless points just to rub it in, she'd certainly have some words for the opposing coach.
"What lessons are you teaching right there? No. I come, you can call it old-school, you can call it whatever you want. I tend to call it disrespectful," Mulkey said. "That is why, truthfully, the Kim Mulkeys and the Nick Sabans can’t coach in the pros.”
At the end of the day, Mulkey's lessons have typically been received by her teams. She won two national titles and an Olympic gold as a player, then followed that up with four national titles as a coach. Her most recent came in just her second season at LSU following her departure from Baylor. This year's Tigers are 15-1 and ranked No. 7 in the nation.
Related
"Pro sports ... That’s not my cup of tea. And yet, I am a coach that believes this: Coaches are only as good as their players. I’ve always believed that," Mulkey continued. "But if you don’t have those players running in a disciplined system, and they’re following your lead, then what do you have? Just throw the ball out there and don’t have any plays. Do what you want to run. Get to shotgun, get in the old wing T, get in whatever you want, do your thing. No, no. I was totally opposed to what they did.”