I think realistically the USA coach probably does have more say than anyone on the roster. Therefore, if Geno is the USA coach, then playing for UConn DOES give an automatic advantage.
Ok. You Vol fans can continue to live on past laurels. We will give you that. Seems that's is what keeps vol fans motivated or is it the possiblities of future recruits?
Hold on, when referring to UConn Women's basketball in relation to P5 schools, UConn actually has more resources allocated than all of them with only slight exception of a few who match the media training, travel budget, team administration budget, and full staff salaries. All of this has been earned with the success the program has had under Geno. Just please don't play that UConn does more with less. The do more with as much.
Not! You have to develop these women and what does Tennessee know about making these players better? Very little. So true now but it was also true in Pat Summit's prime. I think there's very few players that became Vol's who wouldn't have been appreciably better, had they come under the tutelage of Geno and his very able coaching staff. Their choice! The Vols have had many highly ranked teams in the past ten years that were nothing but mediocre despite their high ratings entering their program. That holds true for other programs, as well. There is not too many players entering UConn over the years who didn't leave as substantially better players and most certainly, people. That's another thing that you find. How media savvy do they become? On every level, UConn has done a great deal making these fine young ladies into very special women who become quite worldly.
Coco, don't use logic it will only hurt their brains. Never mind the fact that USA Basketball chooses the coach (like Coach K who has also done a few Olympics). And yes Tenn and Candace when you produce the best team players, they tend to be ask to join the USA Team. So besides the 5 UConn women who had all won a NPOY which should not have made it?
....and this is pertinent....how?
I absolutely agree with your point, but one nagging issue; that wouldn't be a LV laurel, since she was in High School at the time. That would be a Naperville Central High School laurel.
Exactly right. Just look at the company she was with on that show. They only get watched because they are crass and stir up stuff. Like psuedo media does.
Yes, playing for UCONN does give college players an automatic advantage with USA basketball... that's because they learned to play as a team and they learned to play hard every possession... How many WNBA Coaches say that the UCONN players are the most prepared when entering the WNBA??? You would never hear ANY former UCONN player make the same remarks that Candace did about another program... Because Geno not only makes you a better basketball player, he makes you a better person... They asked Geno to coach a second Olympics... So don't complain about Geno, complain about the people who asked him!!! The USA basketball committee...
