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I will say this, it shocked me.

It did catch me off guard and it may have even lessened my dislike of the "Sky Diggs" persona, as I have always enjoyed watching Skylar Diggins the athlete and competitor.

Sorry, my skepticism meter went sky high on this one. For the entire season, we've watched the scowl, the prima dona, the "this is my F house", etc. My first reaction was that she did that to "look good". I could be totally off base, but that's what I thought. Either way, the end result was all good for UConn.
 
A lot of those posts I found out is editing. Every time you edit it adds to your post count. I edit almost every post I make and some up to six times.

Sorry Padre, but you are wrong. I tested it with my post count by editing a post several times, saving it and then looking at my post count. No change.
 
Thanks, MSF, for pointing out a nice moment. I was sitting down low, but missed it....caught it on replay at your suggestion. I have found the reaction on this thread highly amusing. Naturally, we Husky supporters all tend to hate Skylar on one level, because she's so damned good, so much a historic thorn in our side, and so prone to well-earned swagger when appropriate. Similarly, those qualities induce a higher level of satisfaction on our part when our team beats her, as compared to its beating anyone else. Duh? What your chief critic, who is often wrong on this Board, though never in doubt, conveniently overlooks is that the very qualities that Boneyarders complain about in Skylar could equally be attributed to some of our own, DT in particular. A player has to be great to engender all that hatred, and it pains opponents to credit their skills. As for me, I want players with the kind of warrior mentality that Skylar exhibits on my team, and would have been delighted if she had chosen to play here instead of ND. Anyway, as you pointed out, it was a nice, sportsmanlike moment, and I'm glad you brought it to our attention.
 
Sorry Padre, but you are wrong. I tested it with my post count by editing a post several times, saving it and then looking at my post count. No change.
Does it on mine, doggy. Or I should say did it. Maybe it changed when the 30 minute edit limute went away. I checked it several times to make sure that is what was happening.
 
Nope, just checked and it is still ups the message count on edit postings. Maybe your posts are too perfect to edit.
 
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I think game time interview of players should be OFF-LIMITS. Same for coaches, with an exception of 10 seconds at halftime. It's COLLEGE. The NCAA should have a rule against an athlete getting that special benefit. Ooops.
I think I remember Rebecca tweeting about it during the tourney that they hate it as much as the coaches and players, but it must be in the ESPN agreement to cover the tourney. I dislike it as well. The mid-game ten second interviews (other than half-time) really strike me as useless.
 
Nope, just checked and it is still ups the message count on edit postings. Maybe your posts are too perfect to edit.
I just did it again and nope, no count change.
 
Kelly did have a reaction. She put her right arm around Skylar's waist. Check it out again.
 
I think I remember Rebecca tweeting about it during the tourney that they hate it as much as the coaches and players, but it must be in the ESPN agreement to cover the tourney. I dislike it as well. The mid-game ten second interviews (other than half-time) really strike me as useless.
+10 - I hate the in game interviews with players, the during the time-outs interviews with coaches, but the thing I find most objectionable are the really dopey locker room pre game and halftime coach's pep talks. Those are such cringe worthy moments to me I try to get the sound off before the audio picks up. I blame this all on Vince Lombardi and the Packers (who I have never liked anyway!)
 
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... but the thing I find most objectionable are the really dopey locker room pre game and halftime coach's pep talks. Those are such cringe worthy moments to me I try to get the sound off before the audio picks up.

Ha! I thought I was the only one that did that!
 
+10 - I hate the in game interviews with players, the during the time-outs interviews with coaches, but the thing I find most objectionable are the really dopey locker room pre game and halftime coach's pep talks. Those are such cringe worthy moments to me I try to get the sound off before the audio picks up. I blame this all on Vince Lombardi and the Packers (who I have never liked anyway!)

same here, I am not a fan of listening to the pre/half pep talks.....if I were a coach or a player, I would find it distracting, and, given there is very limited time between halves, I would also find it intrusive. But that's just me.
 
Thanks, MSF, for pointing out a nice moment. I was sitting down low, but missed it....caught it on replay at your suggestion. I have found the reaction on this thread highly amusing. Naturally, we Husky supporters all tend to hate Skylar on one level, because she's so damned good, so much a historic thorn in our side, and so prone to well-earned swagger when appropriate. Similarly, those qualities induce a higher level of satisfaction on our part when our team beats her, as compared to its beating anyone else. Duh? What your chief critic, who is often wrong on this Board, though never in doubt, conveniently overlooks is that the very qualities that Boneyarders complain about in Skylar could equally be attributed to some of our own, DT in particular. A player has to be great to engender all that hatred, and it pains opponents to credit their skills. As for me, I want players with the kind of warrior mentality that Skylar exhibits on my team, and would have been delighted if she had chosen to play here instead of ND. Anyway, as you pointed out, it was a nice, sportsmanlike moment, and 'm glad you brought it to our attention.

Leaving the floor after a victory at Duke and flashing the "call me" sign is very different from shouting at fans in Connecticut and saying "This is my house."
 
Thanks, MSF, for pointing out a nice moment. I was sitting down low, but missed it....caught it on replay at your suggestion. I have found the reaction on this thread highly amusing. Naturally, we Husky supporters all tend to hate Skylar on one level, because she's so damned good, so much a historic thorn in our side, and so prone to well-earned swagger when appropriate. Similarly, those qualities induce a higher level of satisfaction on our part when our team beats her, as compared to its beating anyone else. Duh? What your chief critic, who is often wrong on this Board, though never in doubt, conveniently overlooks is that the very qualities that Boneyarders complain about in Skylar could equally be attributed to some of our own, DT in particular. A player has to be great to engender all that hatred, and it pains opponents to credit their skills. As for me, I want players with the kind of warrior mentality that Skylar exhibits on my team, and would have been delighted if she had chosen to play here instead of ND. Anyway, as you pointed out, it was a nice, sportsmanlike moment, and I'm glad you brought it to our attention.

It was a nice sportsmanlike moment. Special? No. Something that was unusual? No.
 
Leaving the floor after a victory at Duke and flashing the "call me" sign is very different from shouting at fans in Connecticut and saying "This is my house."
honestly... it was her " house"
 
Sorry, my skepticism meter went sky high on this one. For the entire season, we've watched the scowl, the prima dona, the "this is my F house", etc. My first reaction was that she did that to "look good". I could be totally off base, but that's what I thought. Either way, the end result was all good for UConn.
Did any of you Skylar haters ever see Diana play?

 
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Diana >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Skylar

There aren't enough "greater than" signs, really.

The thing that annoyed me about Skylar is that she has the swagger of a player with national championships, NPOY awards, etc., but never did any of those things. She's a very good player who thinks she's D or Candace. She's just not.

I will give her credit for losing graciously, however. That is not easy to do.
 
I will give her this too: this year's ND team needed her swagger the way the 2003 and 2004 UConn teams needed D's. But D has three NC rings to prove her swag is well-earned.
 
Diana >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Skylar

There aren't enough "greater than" signs, really.

The thing that annoyed me about Skylar is that she has the swagger of a player with national championships, NPOY awards, etc., but never did any of those things. She's a very good player who thinks she's D or Candace. She's just not.

I will give her credit for losing graciously, however. That is not easy to do.
I'm not comparing their talent; I'm comparing the attitude. Notre Dame is young a team with only two seniors, one that lost 3 starters to graduation. In addition, it has only 3 players over 6 feet; heck, it only has 3 forwards and 7 guards yet the Irish were able to beat UConn and its coterie of big girls three times this season. Skylar Diggins and her "attitude" :rolleyes: willed Notre Dame into the Final Four.

Really, folks, how much would you hate the attitude if UConn had won those games? Let's give Diggins her due. She won and she earned the right to her swagger.
 
I think it's a matter of class more so than a matter of attitude.

Compare the respectful business like celebration when UConn ended Skylar's career with the obnoxious jersey thumpin in the stands one by ND when they ended Maya's. When UConn won Sunday they celebrated for about 5 seconds than went right over to shake the ND team's hands and give Skylar their respect and even hugged her. When ND beat us in 2011 they went into the stands to celebrate and basically did not pay respect to one of the greatest WCBB players to ever play whose career they just ended.

UConn could have easily given them some of their own medicine after watching them over celebrate their recent wins but didn't.
 
It doesn't really matter to me if Uconn won or lost on January 5. Gampel Pavillion is a lot of things: a cathedral of basketball, a little worse for wear, criminally under-equipped with seat backs, etc. But one thing it damn sure isn't is Skylar Diggins's house. It is Geno Auriemma's house, Jim Calhoun's, Ray Allen's, Rebecca Lobo's, Jen Rizzoti's, Rip Hamilton's, Khalid El-Amin's, Kara Wolters's, Nykesha Sales's, Shea Ralph's, Svet Abrosimova's, Sue Bird's, Swin Cash's, Diana Taurasi's, Emeka Okafor's, Maya Moore's, Tina Charles's Renee Montgomery's, Kemba Walker's, Kaleena Mosqueda-Lewis's, Bria Hartley's, Stef Dolson's, Breanna Stewart's, and everyone else who contributed to 11 national championships and 17 final fours during its existence. It definitely isn't Skylar Diggins's.
 
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I think it's a matter of class more so than a matter of attitude.

Compare the respectful business like celebration when UConn ended Skylar's career with the obnoxious jersey thumpin in the stands one by ND when they ended Maya's. When UConn won Sunday they celebrated for about 5 seconds than went right over to shake the ND team's hands and give Skylar their respect and even hugged her. When ND beat us in 2011 they went into the stands to celebrate and basically did not pay respect to one of the greatest WCBB players to ever play whose career they just ended.

UConn could have easily given them some of their own medicine after watching them over celebrate their recent wins but didn't.
So, you're saying those college-aged kids acted in a more mature manner than the much older folks on the Boneyard. Got it.
 
Diana >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Skylar

There aren't enough "greater than" signs, really.

The thing that annoyed me about Skylar is that she has the swagger of a player with national championships, NPOY awards, etc., but never did any of those things. She's a very good player who thinks she's D or Candace. She's just not.

I will give her credit for losing graciously, however. That is not easy to do.

She's the same caliber of player that has won NPOY and national championships in other years. She led Notre Dame to three consecutive Final Fours. She consistently beat a deeper and more talented UConn team. She has just as much right to have a swagger as anybody else in WCBB history.
 
But it's more than her swagger. Part of it is about Skylar making it all about Skylar. Would Diana draw attention to herself with something like the headband thing...changing her hair and/or headband when things weren't going well? Wearing different shoes? It's more than the basketball swagger.
 
This forum is a riot! I understand that the Board has a split personality. Many signed on thinking it was all about women's basketball in general, and UConn women's basketball in particular, only to learn that for many others, it was primarily a "we love our girls" kind of an exercise. For those in the former camp, those who love and appreciate the game, giving a player like Skylar her due poses no problem. It is a matter of indifference to them whether or not one finds her personality objectionable, her greatness as a player and as a competitor are undeniable. For those in the latter category, on the other hand, "our girls" are models of good citizenship and altogether lovable, while Skylar is a bad girl, so crediting her with greatness comes at too high a price. In the meantime, lost in all this foolishness, is the original post which simply tried to draw attention to a moment of classiness and good sportsmanship...which it was!
 
But it's more than her swagger. Part of it is about Skylar making it all about Skylar. Would Diana draw attention to herself with something like the headband thing...changing her hair and/or headband when things weren't going well? Wearing different shoes? It's more than the basketball swagger.
thats up to Muffett to handle... and maybe she thinks that help her play better.
 
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