CCU coach calls UF's O'Sullivan 'bully' for rant

First-year Coastal Carolina shot manager Kevin Schnall called Florida manager Kevin O'Sullivan a bully and disrespectful for his expletive-filled rant directed astatine tract administrators earlier an elimination crippled astatine the NCAA Conway Regional.

O'Sullivan was upset astir the commencement clip of his team's Sunday elimination crippled against East Carolina being pushed backmost an hour. East Carolina had played a crippled Saturday that ended astatine midnight.

O'Sullivan declined to remark connected the confrontation aft his team's 11-4 nonaccomplishment to the Pirates. Asked if helium wanted to publically apologize, helium said, "I handled it properly, you know, astatine the extremity of the game, yes."

Schnall, whose squad eliminated the Pirates with a 1-0 triumph Sunday night, said helium felt compelled to "stand up for what's right" and remark connected O'Sullivan.

"What transpired this greeting connected our field, different manager disrespected our subordinate AD, who works arsenic hard arsenic anybody successful our full program, helium disrespected our tract crew, who are the brackish of the earth. These guys would bash thing for our program," Schnall said. "It's not OK, and this needs to beryllium brought up."

Schnall said O'Sullivan's tirade, circulated wide connected societal media, was disrespectful and unacceptable.

"This is simply a nationalist champion manager who thinks helium tin travel successful present and effort to bully radical around," Schnall said. "Disappointed. Disappointed idiosyncratic that a batch of coaches look up to, for him to enactment that way."

Asked astir O'Sullivan, East Carolina manager Cliff Godwin said, "It wasn't conscionable directed astatine us. It was directed astatine everybody. Whatever, man. We won. We get to play again, truthful that's each that matters."

Coastal Carolina, the No. 13 nationalist seed, volition play No. 4 Auburn successful a best-of-three ace determination this week.