ESPN College GameDay reacts to Rodney Terry's response to UCF doing horns down
UCF players celebrated their win over Texas earlier this week by throwing up horns down, a gesture that Longhorns coach Rodney Terry referred to as “classless.”
Terry not only criticized UCF players during his postgame press conference but also voiced his displeasure in the handshake line after the game.
The ESPN College GameDay crew responded to Terry’s remarks Saturday morning. Needless to say, they weren’t a fan.
“You just lost three out of four, two of them at home, one of them was to West Virginia. So you are obviously stressed out and you’re a little bit more sensitive to anything that happens,” ESPN analyst Seth Greenberg said.
“Coach your own team. Control your controllables. End of conversation. If I’m Rodney Terry, I’m more concerned about taking care of the basketball and defending the 3 than worrying about what UCF is doing. Horns up, horns down, who cares?”
Fellow ESPN analyst Andraya Carter took it a step further, calling the comments by Rodney Terry “soft.”
“It looked to me like the players were doing it to the student section. The student section was right behind them. Students get crazy. Student sections are doing horns up constantly. So if the players at UCF want to do horns down, I don’t think it’s that big of a deal,” Carter said.
“Louisville has Ls up. People are going to do Ls down. That’s what happens. … You don’t think Baylor’s going to want to do Horns down? Coach Terry in that moment – it’s soft.”
Finally, Jay Bilas offered his thoughts on the situation. According to Bilas, it was much ado about nothing.
“Who cares about this horns down thing? It’s a team celebrating that just won on an opponent’s home court,” Bilas said. “I’ve known Johnny Dawkins for over 40 years. He’s all class. There’s nothing about him that’s not class.”
Rodney Terry explains anger in UCF handshake line
UCF outlasted Texas 77-71 in the Moody Center on Wednesday night, overcoming a 16-point deficit to hand the Longhorns its second-straight loss.
In the postgame handshake line, Longhorns head coach Rodney Terry took exception to a few UCF players that celebrated the win with ‘Horns Down.’ He gave the Knights roster a piece of his mind, calling their actions classless while shaking their hands.
“We don’t do that because when you do those kinds of things, it looks very classless and it also looks like you would just hoping to win,” Terry said. We never go into games trying to hope to win. We go into games expecting to win. So we don’t act like that. We expect to win, we don’t jump up and down like we won a national championship.
“We don’t step on anyone’s home court deal in that crazy trying to show them up in any way. We don’t do that. So that’s what I was angry about.”