PC Coach English Posts That Newspaper’s Article Is “Click Bait,” Then Closes His X Account

PC Coach English Posts That Newspaper’s Article Is “Click Bait,” Then Closes His X Account

Providence College Men's Basketball Coach Kim English took to X (formerly Twitter) on Thursday and criticized Providence Journal sports reporter Bill Koch.

The trigger to English's frustration seemed fairly innocuous.

First, Koch had tweeted a quote from the PC Coach.

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Koch posted, “Kim English — ‘I don’t want a replay of last season.’” Koch added more — read Koch's full tweet below.

It was all pretty vanilla.

English, however, did not respond well. The Friar coach posted, “Click bait is alive and well in 2025. Twitter is officially the equivalent of a 2010 message board.”

“‘Replay of last season’ …was about rotational issues. Go off and get the clicks.”

English’s Tweet seemed a bit of an overreaction to the Koch quote — which were English's own words. 

 

 

Shortly after English’s Tweet, he closed his X account.

GoLocal asked Providence College’s Arthur Parks, the Sr. Assoc. Athletic Director/Media Relations, if the Department had asked English to close his X account.

Parks wrote in an email to GoLocal, “Coach English was not asked to delete his X account. He manages all his personal social media accounts. He determines what accounts he has and how and when he uses those accounts.”

English came off a difficult season with the uncertainty of Bryce Hopkins, and the Friars finished 12-20 overall and 6-14 in the Big East.

Koch’s paper also had a difficult year, with its print circulation during the week falling to 16,000 papers.