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Message: [QUOTE="JordyG, post: 2566199, member: 6819"] Again, if you think Geno has gotten "Particularly ornery this past year" you are clearly new to UConn. Geno has gotten softer over the years, not harder, and any former player will tell you so. 1) Hard to criticize success. As Colin Cowherd says Nick Saban is a bit of a jerk. Bill Beli(at least write "I quit as HC" on the back of a check)chick is a bit of a jerk, Jim Harbaugh is a bit of a jerk, Greg Popovich is a bit of a jerk, Kim Mulkey is a bit of a jerk, Muffet McGraw is a bit of a jerk. What do these people have in common? All of these guys do things wrong. No one is perfect. Where they are rarely wrong is in plying their craft. In sports, as Belichick says, stats are for losers. The only stat that matters are the W's. Many people here criticized Geno when he put the AEH matter on blast in a private conversation. However, it didn't necessarily make what he said wrong, although the context may have been. How he handles his charges is one place where he has [B]consistently[/B], year after year, been proven a genius. "[I]Maybe he can mold the group he has and teach them in practice, and keep them happy[/I]". I asked you this question before and you had no answer then, and of course you'll have no answer now. Name one year where he has been wrong. Name one player that has stayed the full four who he has failed to pull their greatest potential from. [B]Have the courage of your convictions [/B]and pull [B]one[/B] name out your ahhh, hat. Let's be clear. A good, winning coaches job is not to make all of his players happy. If you are happy getting 5 mins a game you are not UConn material. You should use that unhappiness to become all the player you can be. Earn your minutes by going hard, harder and smarter in practice. Hone your game in practice. Support your teammates in practice and in games. As has been said here before in a quote from John Wooden, "The bench is a great teacher". 2) Geno doesn't need our protection. He is universally considered the greatest coach in the history of WCBB. However, it is easy to defend against ill considered, ill informed, ad hominem attacks that are so obviously based not any fact, but informed only by ignorance or self interest. Perhaps even irrational self interest. 3) Here you are correct. Any system that has won twice the number of championships than the rest of the coaches in WCBB [B]combined [/B]is were my money would go. Every time. A coach that has brought his team to [B]10 consecutive Final Fours, [/B]well, I'd say that his system is the best and easiest to trust. Put my coin right on the nose. 4) Since you are new to The Boneyard and new to UConn WCBB this perception is specious and naive. Perhaps if you'd even bothered to look past the last 8-10 years on this site you'd have seen a lot of criticism of Geno from a lot of quarters. [personal attack deleted] [/QUOTE]

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