Recent content by Bigboote

I sure wouldn’t want to go to a school where $400 of my tuition was going to the football coaches. (Yes I know that’s not literally true.) I wouldn’t be crazy about 40 bucks to unload a women’s basketball coach’s ill-advised contract either.

Yeah, Wow! I was kind of shocked when I found out that Rutgers had hired Coquese. She had a few good years at Penn State, but I'm not sure she's ever had a winning season without Maggie Lucas and Alex Bentley on her team. Her last few years at Penn State were dismal. Then to find out she got...

I think the rotation will continue to be nine players. Blanca, Kayleigh, and Allie are givens, and as has been pointed out, Serah tends to play only around 20 minutes, so Jana ought to be getting ten or more, especially against the bigger teams. Strong can't put the necessary energy into...

Most of all I'm really happy with Serah's performance. UConn will need games like that from her in the Dance. Also glad she and Kayleigh shone bright at MSG. It hadn't occurred to me until the announcers mentioned it that this is Serah's first opportunity to play meaningful postseason games...

Williams. UConn needs her to play like that henceforth.

Saying that the perturbations to the S curve are wrong implies that the committee’s initial seedings are right. Just sayin’. 😜

UConn 90 SJU 47 MoV 43

Man, Parchment and Heiden were fun to watch last night.

There's a striker in soccer. One might occasionally hear a hitter called a spiker in volleyball, although I haven't heard it in a couple of decades.

going downhill quarter-court offense (what happened to half-court offense?) the nail Things change. You might want to read Like Literally Dude, Arguing for the Good in Bad English about the evolution of the English language. It’s really entertaining and enlightening.

I don’t want to like Candace, but I’m really growing to. One thing about the game: I’ve complained a couple of times about Serah not coming to meet passes. Well last night, late third or fourth quarter, Ashlynn passed the ball right to Serah. The ball hit her right in the hands and just...

I’m all-in for Azzi, too. She seemed to be wherever UConn needed her to be, offense and defense.

Absolutely brilliant! Shea demonstrates that she really did learn a lot from Geno and CD. "Resilience" There aren't too many UConn alumnae who have more than Shea. "It's not about us (the coaches)." Many coaches haven't really learned that. She makes it about the players, giving them...

Do you know how long Kieger's contract runs? All I could find was that she signed an extension in 2022.

Well, this year they have "win it for Caroline and Azzi" and possibly Ayanna and Ice, all of whom have had just brutal careers at UConn. Of course Caroline is unlikely to be playing in the final three games in crunch time as Paige did, but if I were a Husky, there is nobody I'd be playing...