PC Coach Kim English Puts Blame on Players
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PC Coach Kim English Puts Blame on Players
PC fell to Seton Hall Friday night at home, getting outscored 6-0 in the final 1:02 and losing 72-67 to drop 0-2 in the Big East.
His comments were focused on his players all wanting to "be the guy."
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“Be in the moment. Be in the game. Accept your role for this team. They have great role acceptance in Indianapolis [Butler] right now, in Newark [Seton Hall] right now. We don't have great role acceptance right now,” said English. PC has lost to both Butler and Seton Hall this season.
“You know, everyone wants to be the guy, and everyone wants to be the guy on offense. Where in this league, that ain't going to get it. That ain't going to get it,” added English.
Third Time
This was English’s third controversial set of comments.
In April of 2024, English took to social media and charged that other coaches were “tampering” with members of the Providence College roster.
English posted, ”Type shii… To all the tampering Head Coaches and Assistant coaches and flunkies… just call me and lmk if you want to recruit our players.
Leave them and their families alone. Call me. I’ll see if they want to play for your programs. Yall have my number.”
In August of 2025, Kim English took to X (formerly Twitter) 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.
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.
