Is it time to fire Geno?

[Vowelguy]

After reading the Boneyard for the past week, the sentiment is clear:

• Geno has not developed his players
• He plays his starters too long, thereby causing Paige's injury
• Everyone knows that players improve only thru game experience and he is unwilling to play his extended bench
• The offense stinks

I have not heard about anything that he does well. So it begs the question: why is he still coach?

 

[CocoHusky]

 

[oldude]

It appears that you’re posing this question with an air of cynicism, but I must ask, do you really want to open up this can of worms again?

 

[fireford]

 

[ScottCT]

Everyone get in the bunker! Shots are about to be fired from everywhere!

 

[Aluminny69]

This assumes that Chris Daily and the other coaches have no input whatsoever.

 

[PAHuskeyFan]

After reading the Boneyard for the past week, the sentiment is clear:

• Geno has not developed his players
• He plays his starters too long, thereby causing Paige's injury
• Everyone knows that players improve only thru game experience and he is unwilling to play his extended bench
• The offense stinks

I have not heard about anything that he does well. So it begs the question: why is he still coach?

Your "title" of :BY Contrairan" is fitting. Way to support the team. Make sure you wear your lifejacket as you abandon ship.

 

[donalddoowop]

Everyone get in the bunker! Shots are about to be fired from everywhere!

I think that was his intention.

 

[JellyBean]

I swear we have been on this road before.

 

[victor64]

I get your point.

But, with NIL, the portal, social media and reporters asking questions to provoke a response, retirement is looking more and more like a viable option.

 

[Centerstream]

It's deja vu all over again.

 

[Happydad745]

 

[Mirmir]

 

[LoboDays]

After reading the Boneyard for the past week, the sentiment is clear:

• Geno has not developed his players
• He plays his starters too long, thereby causing Paige's injury
• Everyone knows that players improve only thru game experience and he is unwilling to play his extended bench
• The offense stinks

I have not heard about anything that he does well. So it begs the question: why is he still coach?

Although your bullet points are spot on, I don’t believe Geno should go. First, let’s give him a chance to take this injury riddled but still very talented team up to UCONN standards, meet their potential and emerge victorious..

Second, his halftime interviews on SNY are always amusing.

I vote we keep him.. let’s re-access after the Butler game. If we don’t beat them by 60 points, maybe a more serious look at the situation is warranted.

 

[sun]

Geno would never be fired, not now and not ever.
It would require a scandal of Olympic or Penn State proportions for Geno to lose his job at UConn.
It's more likely that there will be a statue, building or monument honoring him after he retires or dies.
Maybe they'll even make a Hollywood movie about him.

 

[cohenzone]

Some (all?) Yarders need to get a life. Too much time thinking about how fans react to the sport on a chat board.

 

[ochoopsfan]

show him the door!!

 

[CTBballfan243]

I get your point.

But, with NIL, the portal, social media and reporters asking questions to provoke a response, retirement is looking more and more like a viable option.

When Geno retires UConn WBB will go the way of LaTech, and Old Dominion faster than you can shake a stick. Be careful what you wish for. The only reason players come to UConn is because of Geno.

 

[msf22b]

To pen a somewhat serious answer...

Geno has always been masterful out of managing what he has
He's in quite a tough spot now.
It may take a few games to sort out exactly how the group that is left functions.
And there very well could be losses ...which will further the howling to the moon.

In a strange sort of way, I could imagine him relishing moments like this.
Coaching is easy when you've got Stewie, Tuck and Moriah able to dominate
any situ.
This is different; there aren't enough bodies physically present...3 guards is one or two, too few. And he usually plays 3...now he can't

Its a real dilemma...He's got to put people on the floor who he doesn't really trust.

If he makes it work...medals and accolades...If he doesn't .....probably no one else could.

If another player breaks down...and I worry about Momma E...bloody disaster.

 

[cabbie191]

Seems to me that VG was primarily pointing out all the negativity others have been posting. Reread the post - VG never expressed the opinion that he thought Geno should be let go.

Comments such as wear a life jacket when you abandon ship are therefore really unwarranted.

 

[GoUconn7961]

Apparently some don't appreciate, or understand, your tongue-in-cheek approach to starting a prickly thread.

 

[cohenzone]

Apparently some don't appreciate, or understand, your tongue-in-cheek approach to starting a prickly thread.

It’s tongue in cheek but a relatively indirect way of putting down posters who he thinks are stupid.

 

[Sifaka]

A contrary hypothetical:

Keep Geno (and his staff and the players, in sundry states of health) and dismiss the Nattering Nabobs of Negativity that infest these hallowed halls of humdrum humanity. Or give them what their finger pointing has earned—

A. Indifference
B. Mockery
C. All of the above, if one can find a way though that logical maze

 

[John]

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