Prank calls end Cornell teleconference early
March 23rd, 2010 | 
Author: By LARRY VAUGHT
Cornell scheduled a 45-minute national teleconference with coach Steve Donahue and players Randy Wittman and Mark Coury Tuesday to talk about the upcoming NCAA East Region game with Kentucky.
However, the call only went about 20 minutes before being stopped due to prank callers, not exactly what I was hoping for since I got to the Cincinnati airport three hours early for my flight to Syracuse so I could listen to all 45 minutes and obtain information and insights for you.
First came a caller that got the teleconference number and pass code somehow. He shouted into the teleconference and added a few vulgar words. When the moderator tried to get him off the line, the caller said, “What are you going to do about it? You want to fight pal. No, I am not going to mute it. Can we reschedule this for another day?”
Once that caller was finally disconnected, another caller interrupted the teleconference and frustrated Donahue so much that he hung up and then the caller tried to pretend he was the Cornell coach. That prompted this exchange between the caller and the moderator:
“How do you know I am not Steve Donahue?”
“I am going to have it (the call) traced.”
“I am on a pay phone.”
“There is no such thing.”
“Yes there is.”
“I am going to another phone so I can get the Cornell police and have this phone traced.”
Not sure if the moderator did that or not, but he ended the call after that.
Posted in UK Basketball
Is it being assumed that these callers were UK fans?
No, I don’t think so. Didn’t sound like a Kentucky accent. Think it was from the east
They were from Mississippi State.
As Cousins said, “That’s a middle school move.”
They call that the “Princeton Offense” or “Princeton Offensive”.
“Princeton, the Mississippi State of the Ivy League”.
It wasn’t me.
It was probably a NY Republican congressman still mad about the vote yesterday!
How sad. It never ceases me how some people can be plain jerks. Sad, sad and sad.
Is there any correlation to many college students having to take remedial reading, Believe me it didn’t use to be that way, what rock did all of these idiots come out from under? I cannot imagine a BBN fan doing something like this.
It was pretty bizarre. HOpe nothing else like that happens this week