First-year Coastal Carolina baseball coach Kevin Schnall referred to as Florida coach Kevin O’Sullivan a bully and disrespectful for his expletive-filled rant directed at website directors earlier than an elimination recreation on the NCAA Conway Regional.
O’Sullivan was upset concerning the begin time of his workforce’s Sunday elimination recreation in opposition to East Carolina being pushed again an hour. East Carolina had performed a recreation Saturday that ended at midnight.
O’Sullivan declined to touch upon the confrontation after his workforce’s 11-4 loss to the Pirates. Requested if he needed to publicly apologize, he stated, “I dealt with it correctly, , on the finish of the sport, sure.”
Schnall, whose workforce eradicated the Pirates with a 1-0 win Sunday evening, stated he felt compelled to “get up for what’s proper” and touch upon O’Sullivan.
“What transpired this morning on our area, one other coach disrespected our affiliate AD, who works as arduous as anyone in our total program, he disrespected our area crew, who’re the salt of the earth. These guys would do something for our program,” Schnall stated. “It is not OK, and this must be introduced up.”
Schnall stated O’Sullivan’s tirade, circulated extensively on social media, was disrespectful and unacceptable.
“It is a nationwide champion coach who thinks he can are available in right here and attempt to bully individuals round,” Schnall stated. “Disenchanted. Disenchanted anyone that a variety of coaches look as much as, for him to behave that manner.”
Requested about O’Sullivan, East Carolina coach Cliff Godwin stated, “It wasn’t simply directed at us. It was directed at everyone. No matter, man. We received. We get to play once more, in order that’s all that issues.”
Coastal Carolina, the No. 13 nationwide seed, will play No. 4 Auburn in a best-of-three tremendous regional this week.