Video: Dawn on PLaying UConn

[Wbbfan1]

 

[yanks61]

Good interview !

 

[SCGamecock]

I love Dawn. Especially her ability to stay grounded in the moment. If our team can learn anything from their head coach it's that you should respect your opponent but never fear them.

I hope our team goes into tomorrow's game fearless and resolute. They'll need it versus a juggernaut. Limit the turnovers, play your assignments, keep it clean but most of all have fun.

 

[huskyd]

Always liked Dawn. I know she's been raked over the coals on this board recently for her salty language, but in the public settings in which I've seen her she has always been completely appropriate. She's a serious person, proud (as she should be) of her program and her fans, and speaks w/out braggadocio. She's practical about her team's prospects Monday and complimentary about UConn's talent. Having spoken kindly, I hope the game is a blow-out with the Huskies decimating the Gamecocks, breaking their spirit, demoralizing their fans, and making clear to the nation's best high schoolers that Storrs is the only destination for them. Otherwise, best wishes.

 

[cockhrnleghrn]

Always liked Dawn. I know she's been raked over the coals on this board recently for her salty language, but in the public settings in which I've seen her she has always been completely appropriate. She's a serious person, proud (as she should be) of her program and her fans, and speaks w/out braggadocio. She's practical about her team's prospects Monday and complimentary about UConn's talent. Having spoken kindly, I hope the game is a blow-out with the Huskies decimating the Gamecocks, breaking their spirit, demoralizing their fans, and making clear to the nation's best high schoolers that Storrs is the only destination for them. Otherwise, best wishes.

Demoralizing our fans, lol. We're the fans that survived a 21 game losing streak in football while remaining top 20 in attendance; I think we'll be ok.

I guess the ball is in Geno's court if the series will continue.

 

[FairView]

I would love Dawn if she were the coach of my team.
She is not, so I do not.
Although I liked her in this interview.
It may have helped that she wasn't making any of those crazy game faces.

 

[SCGamecock]

Demoralizing our fans, lol. We're the fans that survived a 21 game losing streak in football while remaining top 20 in attendance; I think we'll be ok.

I guess the ball is in Geno's court if the series will continue.

Exactly. Win or lose, there will still be 15,000+ fans at Thursday's game vs. Florida.. Demoralizing lost? I doubt it. As fans, we've endured worst.

If Monday's game results in a loss, the fans will be there to cheer the team up and refocus them on the real goal at hand.... going undefeated in conference play and winning the SEC tournament.

 

[cockhrnleghrn]

Exactly. Win or lose, there will still be 15,000+ fans at Thursday's game vs. Florida.. Demoralizing lost? I doubt it. As fans, we've endured worst.

For me it was vs. Furman in football my freshman year in 1982.

 

[SCGamecock]

For me it was vs. Furman in football my freshman year in 1982.

Wow. Worse than the infamous Navy game?

I gotta go with the 2011 Auburn loss. Probably my most depressing loss as a student.

 

[jsloanjr]

SC has wonderful fans and they support their team very well and should be very proud of them.......Good luck!!!!

 

[cockhrnleghrn]

SC has wonderful fans and they support their team very well and should be very proud of them..Good luck!!!!

Thanks, Sloan, we've had a lot of bad seasons in a lot of sports! It makes the good seasons that much sweeter.

 

[Farney]

To me Dawn is a lot like Geno. She's fiery and leaves it all out there. I like her more each day and hope this rivalry goes for a long time.

 

[reno tony]

I was just talking to a friend and asked if he was going to watch the big game, he said he was watching it right now. Did anyone else know the Super Bowl is today?

 

[Zorro]

Was looking forward to Puppy Bowl XII, but Animal Planet is not carrying it down here.

 

[JordyG]

How can anyone dislike this woman? She's passionate, inspiring and well schooled in the task of basketball. Women's basketball needs not only more coaches like her, but this game. WBB is slowly fading in popularity. The UCONN/UT rivalry boosted WBB in this country to the point where the WNBA became possible. College needs more rivalries like that, more games like this, more coaches like her, more eyes on the sport, and better appreciation of this game. And of course better educated Doug Gottlieb's

 

[Kaizen]

I like Dawn much much more than Muffet .....

 

[cockhrnleghrn]

Dawn is so popular in Columbia that I know Clemson fans that support our WBB team. If you know rivalries, that is unfathomable.

 

[j66kicker]

Dawn is so popular in Columbia that I know Clemson fans that support our WBB team. If you know rivalries, that is unfathomable.

OMG - that IS imposible. Popular in Columbus does NOT equal popular in Clemson!

 

[ThisJustIn]

OMG - that IS imposible. Popular in Columbus does NOT equal popular in Clemson!

Except, of course, the Clemson women's team has been an embarrassment to basketball for a loooong time.

 

[DaddyChoc]

Football fan and Women's basketball fans are 2 different animals... UConn can make them feel salty but because Dawn and Geno are cool the chances are slim unless South Carolina starts winning against UConn

 

[RockyMTblue2]

It goes by fast, but Dawn said the Gampel atmosphere intimidated her players. She, in turn, is making a lot of their home court advantage. Historically home court has been a big factor in the SEC, so I understand the emphasis.

 

[Waquoit]

I'm just hoping she doesn't have her team goon it up tonight.

 

[cockhrnleghrn]

It goes by fast, but Dawn said the Gampel atmosphere intimidated her players. She, in turn, is making a lot of their home court advantage. Historically home court has been a big factor in the SEC, so I understand the emphasis.

That's because there are a lot of fierce rivalries in the conference across all sports. We all have teams that we hate. For me it is Kentucky's 2 coaches in MBB and WBB and Vandy in MBB, as well. In football it is Clemson (non-conference, but hated), Georgia and Auburn. There is a lot of cross-pollination between sports. It strikes me that many on this board may not be UCONN football fans, for the most part.