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Arizona HC Adia Barnes on profane post-game pep talk: 'I’m not apologizing for it'

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Centerstream said:
Swerve. @HuskyNan , who is your latest avatar? It appears to me to be Jodie Comer, but not really sure. Thanks.
Now, back to the thread.
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Beth Harmon’s gaze across the chessboard, a intimidating challenge. Both my husband and I enjoyed the Netflix series.

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I’m very disappointed that she would do that out where the cameras were rolling. If she felt the need to clap back at the naysayers with profanity and an obscene gesture she should have waited to get in the locker room. Not a good look for the representative of a major University who is supposed to be setting an example for her players! Very disappointing to do it at all, but even more so to act like she’s proud that she did it on national television. A wiser person would understand that and would also understand that the best payback for doubters/haters is the win itself.
 
Sakibomb25 said:
Honestly, the reaction by many people about Barnes’ actions is down right disappointing. Those who oppose fall into one of two camps:

1) Barnes is a woman. Male athletes swear all the time and no one bats an eye. But when females do it, all hell breaks loose and she becomes classless. Give me a break. If you are condemning Barnes, then get ready to also call Kobe Bryant, Brady Quinn, Peyton Manning, Tom Brady and many others as classless. The fact is, Barnes is a woman and this is why it’s getting so much attention.

2) Barnes isn’t affiliated with UConn. If you have a problem with swearing, then where were you during the Taurasi days? She dropped f-bombs like no other on and off the court.

Either way, Barnes as nothing to apologize for. She wasn’t being disrespectful to UConn, but to all those who doubted her team (ESPN and the NCAA def deserve it). Remember folks - you can swear AND still be a role model. SMH.
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What a crock! You are seriously saying this would be OK if Geno had done the same thing? Class isn’t determined by your sex. It’s just a classless act that reflects poorly on her and the University that pays her hundreds of thousands each year to coach these young women.
 
I claim BS on the coach, who exactly is everyone? Everyone disrespected her and her team?, I saw no disrespect, I think they were smart to make it a call to battle, look at little poor us, nobody likes us. Buck up Buttercup, your ploy worked you have done what only one other team in the country has, made it to the big game. The only one to show disrespect to everyone else was you. I hope you play well tonight, a competitive game enhances the sport. I would put that finger away, they often come back to salute the pointer.
 
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Sifaka said:
I made a mistake, a bad one.

I neglected to take my anti-sanctimony pills before reading the many pious posts
attacking Ms. Barnes. Such self-righteousness should not be consumed on an empty stomach. Moralizing of that calibre takes practice, both by the purveyor and their witnesses. I'll gladly keep my amateur status and avoid these unctuous, Pecksniffian complaints.

I applaud the Arizona team and their coach.
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JoePgh said:
The only reason why you wouldn't see it from Geno is that he has enough experience with ESPN's television coverage of high-profile games to realize that saying that while his team is still on the floor will probably cause TV cameras to broadcast it.

Since this is Adia Barnes's first Final Four, I think that she should be forgiven for not having the same instincts about that. It was a spontaneous utterance, aimed at unnamed detractors, and certainly not directed to any specific opponent, or any racial or other commonly maligned group.

Much ado about nothing.
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The issue for me is not so much that she did something inappropriate in the heat of the moment. That (while unfortunate) is understandable. It’s the “I’m not going to apologize” attitude that I am more disappointed in. Why not just say, “Last night in our postgame celebration I made an inappropriate comment and gesture on camera. I apologize to anyone who may have been offended by my actions.” What is so difficult about that?
 
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Sifaka said:
I made a mistake, a bad one.

I neglected to take my anti-sanctimony pills before reading the many pious posts
attacking Ms. Barnes. Such self-righteousness should not be consumed on an empty stomach. Moralizing of that calibre takes practice, both by the purveyor and their witnesses. I'll gladly keep my amateur status and avoid these unctuous, Pecksniffian complaints.

I applaud the Arizona team and their coach.
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This is where we are. Expecting a coach of a major University to not spout -word and/or make an obscene gesture on camera is now “self-righteous, unctuous, and moralizing.” What a world!
 
Cuango said:
This is where we are. Expecting a coach of a major University to not spout -word and/or make an obscene gesture on camera is now “self-righteous, unctuous, and moralizing.” What a world!
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Ay, ¡Dios mío! Oh the horror. A curse word! A gesture! My virgin eyes and ears will never be the same! Where are my pearls again?!

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HuskyNan said:
I guess you guys never saw UConn’s Shabazz Napier after the men won the championship in 2014. The men felt disrespected by the NCAA after they’d been banned from the post season in 2013 because a previous UConn team, before any on the 2014 team were there, hadn’t earned a certain cumulative GPA. Shabazz let the world know what it could do with the disrespect after they won, on TV. Adia didn’t know the cameras were on her, Shabazz did. And it was more than popping his jersey.

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And I loved it!
 
nwhoopfan said:
I just heard Tara say damn. Classless. Worthy of 4 or 5 pages of derision.
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Why didn’t she just save it for the locker room?!
What happened to our pristine Western civilization?!
What would John Wooden, the Pope, the Spanish Inquisitors, and Christopher Columbus say?!?!
 
Well, it's classless, but a powerful way to continue to motivate her team with "us vs. Them." She gave the finger to those who disrespected her team. On one level;, I guess I don't blame her.
 
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oldude said:
For John Wooden a comparable expletive would have been, “GOLLY SHUCKS”, after which he would have apologized for losing his temper.
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It would have been "gracious sakes alive" or some such. He forbade swearing during practices (as did, e.g., Bobby Bowden). Not sure about games.
 
A Baylor player said the same word late in the men's Championship game. Mic picked it up very clearly. Will this get the same kind of reaction as Barnes? Absolutely not.
 
Kaizen said:
I hope you don't teach your kids (if there are any) to grown as jerks. Oh I mean jerky beef teriyaki flavor.
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nwhoopfan said:
A Baylor player said the same word late in the men's Championship game. Mic picked it up very clearly. Will this get the same kind of reaction as Barnes? Absolutely not.
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First, most, if not all of the people who disapproved of the Coach are also disapproving of the player. Second, if you can’t see that there is a big difference between the Coach and the player, then I guess we’ll just have to agree to disagree.
 
nwhoopfan said:
A Baylor player said the same word late in the men's Championship game. Mic picked it up very clearly. Will this get the same kind of reaction as Barnes? Absolutely not.
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It's a player, why would it get the same reaction as a person in charge?
 
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Come on. She was emotional and fired up. Not like she kidnapped the Lindbergh baby. Me personally...I admire the raw emotion of competing versus the interviews with rehearsed and worn cliches. It's better than wondering...what was she really thinking...or what did she really want to say. NOW...we know.
 
nwhoopfan said:
A Baylor player said the same word late in the men's Championship game. Mic picked it up very clearly. Will this get the same kind of reaction as Barnes? Absolutely not.
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Well, she’s a woman and, of course, women are supposed to be the men’s definition of a lady all the time. Otherwise, she’s low class.
 
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