Comparing the present GENO with the past GENO......

[RSHERMVIKES]

With the undefeated/championship UConn teams of 2002-2003, 2003-2004, & 2014-2015, 2015-2016 coming back to Storrs to be honored it calls for comparing the past Geno and the present Geno!
I've heard players from the earlier years of Geno's time at UConn come back to practice and games and afterwards tell Geno, "You aren't as big an SOB now as you were with us!"
The thought that Geno has "mellowed" in the eyes of his alumni is (to me) hilarious!
His cutting wit has impacted many a star player, who still love and respect him for making them better players/people now in their adult lives! See Rebecca Lobo's and Swin cash's Hall of Fame speeches!
Paige talked about Geno at tonight's post game press conference!

 

[Skeets]

Geno has mellowed. How many times has he been "T" up the last few years? Heck, CD doesn't even have to wrestle him to the bench anymore. Where is the fun?

 

[CL82]

I don't know that Geno has mellowed so much as has adapted to a new reality in which most players will not thrive in the methodology the team employed 20 years ago.

 

[Bone Dog]

Geno lets Paige get away with so much more than earlier great ones. It may be one of Paige’s greatest magic tricks to have pulled a rabbit out of Geno’s hat. Like Bullwinkle, many have tried and failed.

 

[topogigio]

Aging has a way to make you look at and react to things in a different way. Natural progression.

 

[HuskyNan]

From 20 years ago. 60 Minutes was actually reading the Boneyard and contacted me to be interviewed for the fans’ angle but I ended up on the Editing Room floor. Morley Safer did get a Boneyard hoodie that he wore wile jogging. Very nice man.

 

[CL82]

From 20 years ago. 60 Minutes was actually reading the Boneyard and contacted me to be interviewed for the fans’ angle but I ended up on the Editing Room floor. Morley Safer did get a Boneyard hoodie that he wore wile jogging. Very nice man.

I remember this at the time, and I remember a picture that was posted on The Boneyard which, for some inexplicable reason had grasshoppers photo shopped all over it. Do you remember that, or have I had a stroke or something?

 

[TN-Gamecock]

I don't know that Geno has mellowed so much as has adapted to a new reality in which most players will not thrive in the methodology the team employed 20 years ago.

SPOT ON!!!

 

[HuskyNan]

I remember this at the time, and I remember a picture that was posted on The Boneyard which, for some inexplicable reason had grasshoppers photo shopped all over it. Do you remember that, or have I had a stroke or something?

Sounds like a @Biff special

 

[Centerstream]

From 20 years ago. 60 Minutes was actually reading the Boneyard and contacted me to be interviewed for the fans’ angle but I ended up on the Editing Room floor. Morley Safer did get a Boneyard hoodie that he wore wile jogging. Very nice man.

Are there Boneyard products available for purchase for us fans of the BY?

 

[CL82]

Are there Boneyard products available for purchase for us fans of the BY?

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[uconnfan68]

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Wrong Boneyard.

 

[HuskyNan]

Are there Boneyard products available for purchase for us fans of the BY?

Not any more. I had boxes of tees, hoodies, and hats in my basement for ages that I couldn’t sell. We stopped trying to sell them.

 

[CL82]

Wrong Boneyard.

That was the joke, such as it was.

 

[Bone Dog]

That was the joke, such as it was.

I enjoyed your joke, even though it's a universally accepted truth that "nothing improves a joke more than being asked to explain it." Now let me add an emoji or a gif to signal that I'm speaking ironically lest I be asked to explain my joke.

 

[CL82]

I enjoyed your joke, even though it's a universally accepted truth that "nothing improves a joke more than being asked to explain it." Now let me add an emoji or a gif to signal that I'm speaking ironically lest I be asked to explain my joke.

There was a time on The Boneyard when a request like that would resulted in this link. That, at least, is a little bit less ambiguous.

 

[FormerCTrez]

From 20 years ago. 60 Minutes was actually reading the Boneyard and contacted me to be interviewed for the fans’ angle but I ended up on the Editing Room floor. Morley Safer did get a Boneyard hoodie that he wore wile jogging. Very nice man.

Thanks Nan, this “review” is greatly appreciated.

 

[Bone Dog]

From 20 years ago. 60 Minutes was actually reading the Boneyard and contacted me to be interviewed for the fans’ angle but I ended up on the Editing Room floor. Morley Safer did get a Boneyard hoodie that he wore wile jogging. Very nice man.

As always, Yogi turns out to be right!

 

[Bone Dog]

Watching a replay of a 2004 game against Tennessee, and Ann Meyers observed that Taurasi was “remarkably efficient, averaging 18 pts a game on 12 shots.” Sound familiar? And then she remarked that “Geno wants her to be less unselfish.”

 

[Steelerone]

Has Geno changed. Why don't you ask yourself what you were like thirty years ago and if there is any difference today? Then lie and say "No."

 

[Rowdy831]

Geno has always been very funny but in his youth he would say things before really thinking about how it would be heard. When he talks now he always stops to make sure what he about to say is going to be received like a message from the leader of the sport should be heard. His attention to detail on the floor is still very high and if he has softened anywhere it is how he communicates with his players.

In my mind he is still the best coach in college basketball and will be until he retires. The bar is set so high people evaluating him have no chance of doing it fairly or accurately. He is the Tiger Woods, Michael Jordan and Wayne Gretzky all rolled into one. I love to critique him on the Boneyard but that is about where my credentials end.

 

[TCC Kid]

With the undefeated/championship UConn teams of 2002-2003, 2003-2004, & 2014-2015, 2015-2016 coming back to Storrs to be honored it calls for comparing the past Geno and the present Geno!
I've heard players from the earlier years of Geno's time at UConn come back to practice and games and afterwards tell Geno, "You aren't as big an SOB now as you were with us!"
The thought that Geno has "mellowed" in the eyes of his alumni is (to me) hilarious!
His cutting wit has impacted many a star player, who still love and respect him for making them better players/people now in their adult lives! See Rebecca Lobo's and Swin cash's Hall of Fame speeches!
Paige talked about Geno at tonight's post game press conference!

Coach there is little comparison that can be made of the Geno of 1990's and now. Girls were stumbling overr themselves to join the Handsome charmer from Philly. He got tossed out of more games then. He had the best of the best players then. He played a game few if any other WCBB teams played. His competition was weaker.
Sue Bird like the Wes B of the past sunk 3/4 court shots,. None have done that recently