Olde Coach
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I just want to salute the UConn coaches for dressing like coaches the past three days -- rather than like chaperons for a Junior Prom.
(Websters New World Dictionary): "chaperon, n. a person, especially an older or married woman, who accompanies young, unmarried people in public or is present at their parties, dances etc. for the sake of propriety or good form."
For the past three days, the UConn coaching staff looked like real coaches. They wore pants, and T shirts (with and without collars), and Nikes. They were dressed to do their job of coaching. They looked like athletes and leaders of athletes. They could walk like normal human beings, not like runway models in 4-5 inch spiked heels --- which some idiots, long ago, decreed were a necessary fashion accessory for coaching basketball on television.
I have no problem with athletic women (players and coaches) "dressing up" for appropriate social occasions. "Our Girls" and their coaches, look great when they dress up to visit the White House or attend the WNBA draft etc. But they all look silly and uncomfortable when dressed up to play or coach basketball -- regardless of how many people are watching them on TV.
But silk dresses, and stockings, and spike heels to coach a basketball game? These fashion shows are silly and stupid and simply out of place for the act of coaching a basketball game.
Tennis coaches and soccer coaches and lacrosse coaches and swimming coaches and track coaches and --- well, you get the idea -- they all wear coaching attire to coach the sports they coach. Why do basketball coaches have to get all dressed up? And even Rosemary, The Head Athletic Trainer wears spike heels and fancy dresses for games. She had spike heels on last night. Why did she not qualify for the "comfort dress code" in Puerto Rico?
And it isn't just the women whose dress up fashion shows drive me nuts. The male basketball coaches are just as bad. Some are ridiculous "clothes-horses."
Whatever -- my rant here on the Boneyard will not change the stupid dress codes of the sport.
But I feel better for venting about my pet peeve in Women's Basketball -- and men's as well.
I thought our female coaches looked great last night in their gray t-shirts. They looked "dressed for work" or more specifically for the work they do. The white, collared "golf shirts" they wore on Friday night were more classy, but were also appropriate for coaching basketball.
Kudos to Geno and CD (who, I am sure had a veto vote but did not exercise it) for approving "Island Fashions" for the UConn coaches at the Paradise Jam Tournament.
P.S. A happy after-thought:
Maybe when he has his new 5 or 6 year contract, Geno can exercise some real leadership in his sport by establishing some new and reasonable dress codes. No one person in the sport could have a bigger effect on coaches' fashions than Geno.
(Websters New World Dictionary): "chaperon, n. a person, especially an older or married woman, who accompanies young, unmarried people in public or is present at their parties, dances etc. for the sake of propriety or good form."
For the past three days, the UConn coaching staff looked like real coaches. They wore pants, and T shirts (with and without collars), and Nikes. They were dressed to do their job of coaching. They looked like athletes and leaders of athletes. They could walk like normal human beings, not like runway models in 4-5 inch spiked heels --- which some idiots, long ago, decreed were a necessary fashion accessory for coaching basketball on television.
I have no problem with athletic women (players and coaches) "dressing up" for appropriate social occasions. "Our Girls" and their coaches, look great when they dress up to visit the White House or attend the WNBA draft etc. But they all look silly and uncomfortable when dressed up to play or coach basketball -- regardless of how many people are watching them on TV.
But silk dresses, and stockings, and spike heels to coach a basketball game? These fashion shows are silly and stupid and simply out of place for the act of coaching a basketball game.
Tennis coaches and soccer coaches and lacrosse coaches and swimming coaches and track coaches and --- well, you get the idea -- they all wear coaching attire to coach the sports they coach. Why do basketball coaches have to get all dressed up? And even Rosemary, The Head Athletic Trainer wears spike heels and fancy dresses for games. She had spike heels on last night. Why did she not qualify for the "comfort dress code" in Puerto Rico?
And it isn't just the women whose dress up fashion shows drive me nuts. The male basketball coaches are just as bad. Some are ridiculous "clothes-horses."
Whatever -- my rant here on the Boneyard will not change the stupid dress codes of the sport.
But I feel better for venting about my pet peeve in Women's Basketball -- and men's as well.
I thought our female coaches looked great last night in their gray t-shirts. They looked "dressed for work" or more specifically for the work they do. The white, collared "golf shirts" they wore on Friday night were more classy, but were also appropriate for coaching basketball.
Kudos to Geno and CD (who, I am sure had a veto vote but did not exercise it) for approving "Island Fashions" for the UConn coaches at the Paradise Jam Tournament.
P.S. A happy after-thought:
Maybe when he has his new 5 or 6 year contract, Geno can exercise some real leadership in his sport by establishing some new and reasonable dress codes. No one person in the sport could have a bigger effect on coaches' fashions than Geno.