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cockhrnleghrn said:
I've heard some older fans gripe about Dawn liking to curse like a drunken sailor during games, but we had over 17,000 at our last home game, so it isn't hurting attendance too much. It's certainly the coaches' decisions, I just don't think it's a big deal.
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It's not a big deal at all. Personally I love it. Seriously. Geno is known for using colorful language and it's one of the bigger pet peeves our orange friends seemed to have with him - that Pat was the epitome of class while Geno was on par with a drunken sailor. Frankly, as I said, I think it's terrific that she not only cusses like a sailor, but directs it at her players. In order to be the very best in WCBB, you can't pretend it's all puppies, kittens and teddy bears.
 
ericsandiego said:
It's not a big deal at all. Personally I love it. Seriously. Geno is known for using colorful language and it's one of the bigger pet peeves our orange friends seemed to have with him - that Pat was the epitome of class while Geno was on par with a drunken sailor. Frankly, as I said, I think it's terrific that she not only cusses like a sailor, but directs it at her players. In order to be the very best in WCBB, you can't pretend it's all puppies, kittens and teddy bears.
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I'm with you; there is no reason to coddle women's players, they need to be tough. Basketball is not a sport for the weak of heart. We have a world class equestrian team at USC - I bet their coach doesn't coddle them, either.
 
cockhrnleghrn said:
I'm with you; there is no reason to coddle women's players, they need to be tough. Basketball is not a sport for the weak of heart. We have a world class equestrian team at USC - I bet their coach doesn't coddle them, either.
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UConn Polo:
Women's National Champions 1996, 1997, 1998, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008
Men's National Champions 1972, 1973, 1974; Men's Final Four 1996, 1998, 2004, 2011;
MEN AND WOMEN FINAL FOUR 2009
http://www.polo.uconn.edu/
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Seriously, Geno's attitude is that he's going to treat his players as basketball players - period, not as girls who play basketball. From this article:

Listen to Auriemma talk about his method, and what emerges is a relentless attention to the details of execution. They have to tie their hair a certain way, and literally hit marks he tapes on the floor. So why don’t more programs teach like he does?

“That’s a good question, and it’s hard to answer,” Auriemma said the day before the title game, hanging in a back hallway of the Bridgestone Arena.” One reason, he believes, is the lingering problem of low expectations, a gender bias in the women’s game. Too many coaches ease up and demand less because they view their players through a female lens.

“I know guys in women’s basketball, and I know women in women’s basketball, who treat them like women,” Auriemma said. “And that’s being disrespectful to them, instead of just treating them as elite athletes and demanding that they reach a certain level.”
 
It is a different world today. Body art has become body ART and not traditional tattoos. Below is a pic of one of our pastors in Denver. She 6'1" and rows crew and does power lifting and most importantly is a good theologian and pastor. She is, also, a published author. Her body art is largely the liturgical year told through stained glass window panes.

http://www.nadiabolzweber.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/nadia-frame5-229x300.png
 
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There is one player with a very personal tatoo, as mentioned on an SNY show last year. I can't tell if it is covered. Because of what it means to the player, I hope it is not.
 
ericsandiego said:
Are you f*ing kidding me??!!
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HuskyNan said:
UConn Polo:
Women's National Champions 1996, 1997, 1998, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008
Men's National Champions 1972, 1973, 1974; Men's Final Four 1996, 1998, 2004, 2011;
MEN AND WOMEN FINAL FOUR 2009
http://www.polo.uconn.edu/
:)

Seriously, Geno's attitude is that he's going to treat his players as basketball players - period, not as girls who play basketball. From this article:

Listen to Auriemma talk about his method, and what emerges is a relentless attention to the details of execution. They have to tie their hair a certain way, and literally hit marks he tapes on the floor. So why don’t more programs teach like he does?

“That’s a good question, and it’s hard to answer,” Auriemma said the day before the title game, hanging in a back hallway of the Bridgestone Arena.” One reason, he believes, is the lingering problem of low expectations, a gender bias in the women’s game. Too many coaches ease up and demand less because they view their players through a female lens.

“I know guys in women’s basketball, and I know women in women’s basketball, who treat them like women,” Auriemma said. “And that’s being disrespectful to them, instead of just treating them as elite athletes and demanding that they reach a certain level.”
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I agree with Geno's approach; there is no reason they shouldn't be treated any other way. I'm sure it instills toughness in them, too.
 
boontonbomber said:
There is one player with a very personal tatoo, as mentioned on an SNY show last year. I can't tell if it is covered. Because of what it means to the player, I hope it is not.
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If you are thinking of Chong's tattoo on her wrist which is a tribute to her brother it is not covered. Geno stated that due to the small size and meaning of the tattoo that he would not make Chong cover it.
 
ed4ourgirls said:
A large fraction of UConn fans are seniors, grandparents, and parents with little kids
to which the "sugar and spice and everything nice" characterization is very appealing.
Geno and CD promote this public persona to attract this fan base. Perhaps Dawn
Staley does too.
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I agree and I think it's a good policy, personally, I think the more ink a person has the more trashy they look.
 
ericsandiego said:
UCONN does not allow their players to have visible tattoos during games.

It's the UCONN way, and something CD and the other coaches enforce...
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Correct. It is not the tattoo necessarily, but anything that sets you apart from the other players. No fingernail polish, no heavy makeup, lipstick, funny-colored hair, ostentatious 'doos...nothing. Goes along with the nameless unis and the familiar Bun. I've actually wondered about Nurse, Lou and Chong's 'doos...they seem to push the envelope at times.

manfredonia said:
I believe Shea Palph has a small tattoo on her ankle.
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It's a daisy with a basketball for a pistil. Hardcore fans may remember the "Lumbar Tattoo" (aka Tramp Stamp) wardrobe malfunction scandal early in her first season as a coach at UConn.
 
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Simply don't understand the tattoo thing....................I've been telling my daughter that she needs to open up a chain of tattoo removal offices after college.................gonna be a whole lot of regretful moms and dads wanting to erase that bad body art when they have kids of their own..............as far as Gabby goes, she's been wearing that tape to cover it since her freshman year so nothing new about that
 
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ericsandiego said:
Did we know she had one? I did not. It's on her left shoulder. In games she covers it with the kinesio athletic tape, but I saw it on the Geno show when they were showing clips of a practice.
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If you had been poolside with the team at St. Thomas or Estero, you would have seen tattoos on several players.
 
Jpmel said:
I agree and I think it's a good policy, personally, I think the more ink a person has the more trashy they look.
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They aren't called tattoos by the young people; it's body art, and a part of self-expression. It's no more trashy than any other fashion, IMO.
 
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Bigpetunia said:
You may call it art, Nan, and maybe it is, but when those young folk are in their 60's, the artist is gonna bring Salvador Dali to mind:
https://www.startalkradio.net/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/The-Persistence-of-Memory-1931.jpg
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No one ever said a man will regret a tattoo when he's older; why is it only women that need to worry about it? Could it be people are judging women by their appearance? That's a double standard and, frankly, I'm tired seeing worthwhile people being judged by their looks.


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HuskyNan said:
No one ever said a man will regret a tattoo when he's older; why is it only women that need to worry about it? Could it be people are judging women by their appearance? That's a double standard and, frankly, I'm tired seeing worthwhile people being judged by their looks.


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Lots of people will disagree with my take on this. But frankly it all looks like bad cartoon art to me. Excessive tattoo's always seemed to me more a cry for attention and/or help in a society hell bent for narcissism. I'm convinced future tattoo-less generations will look upon tattooed grandma and grandma as embarrassments. I see some people with so many tattoo's I wonder why they just didn't paint themselves blue and have it over. Or at least tattoo "Eat McDonald's on their foreheads and try to get paid for it. And all that ink is a poison slowly seeping into your body as that thing fades over time. Younger people ask me why haven't I ever tattooed myself and I say 1) You know how everyone looks in the mirror and hates their nose or teeth or facial sculpture etc. Well these things can be changed with surgery often without scarring. Over time, just like your nose, you will come to dislike or tire of looking at your tattoo. Tattoo's to me are a permanent scar that can only be changed by more scarring or removed by a bigger scar 2) Life has naturally scarred me enough I don't need to self inflict any. More frankly, I live in NYC. Over time if I didn't judge just about everything and everyone initially by its or their looks I'd have long been be dead by now.
 
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Huskies Rule said:
One of my favorite kids, Bria Hartley, has, among others, a large stylized basketball tattooed on her inner hip. After UConn, Stef tatted her inner forearm. Is that a negative reflection on them? I have to believe in 30 years at UConn others have also had discrete, less prominent tattoos. So Gabby has a shoulder tattoo. What does it really matter?? I know Geno (THE best WCBB coach ever) likes to control the UConn image and culture for his players (routines, dress, social media, etc) and I bet he believes (and I won't argue) that it has contributed to UConn's team-first focus and unparalleled success in WCBB. But unlike 25-30 years ago, when practically no girls had tattoos, today it is a socially acceptable way kids express themselves, their individuality etc. Almost forty years ago, I refused to talk to my son for pretty much an entire school year because he came home with a small tattoo on his arm (honoring his grandparents murdered in Auschwitz). I was irrational, I freaked out. He was a great young man (then and now) but I couldn't get past that darn tattoo. I have since learned not to judge people (kids or adults) because they choose to do things that harm nobody, I don't agree with, or I simply don't understand. (A Mike Tyson facial tribal tattoo excluded).

If all things were the same but DT or Maya had impossible-to-cover tattoos, would Geno have decided not to recruit them? Lauren Cox? I don't know. But if a kid is a really good kid, with her head "screwed on right," with solid family values, respectful of others, a team-first not a me-first kid, and a helluva basketball player - an out-there for-everyone-to-see neck tattoo or full sleeve shouldn't mean beans. That which matters is inside, not outside.
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Great post. Just tell me though. What's an inner hip? I'm having enough trouble with my outer hip.
 
Chong's tattoo is a very small one in memory of her passed brother. I fully support and bless her.
 
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It's a double standard; you don't see MBB players having to cover up their tattoos so women shouldn't have to, either.
 
JordyG said:
Lots of people will disagree with my take on this. But frankly it all looks like bad cartoon art to me. Excessive tattoo's always seemed to me more a cry for attention and/or help in a society hell bent for narcissism. I'm convinced future tattoo-less generations will look upon tattooed grandma and grandma as embarrassments. I see some people with so many tattoo's I wonder why they just didn't paint themselves blue and have it over. Or at least tattoo "Eat McDonald's on their foreheads and try to get paid for it. And all that ink is a poison slowly seeping into your body as that thing fades over time. Younger people ask me why haven't I ever tattooed myself and I say 1) You know how everyone looks in the mirror and hates their nose or teeth or facial sculpture etc. Well these things can be changed with surgery often without scarring. Over time, just like your nose, you will come to dislike or tire of looking at your tattoo. Tattoo's to me are a permanent scar that can only be changed by more scarring or removed by a bigger scar 2) Life has naturally scarred me enough I don't need to self inflict any. More frankly, I live in NYC. Over time if I didn't judge just about everything and everyone initially by its or their looks I'd have long been be dead by now.
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Yup. Like a velvet Elvis or a souvenir plate you'd buy at a Stuckey's.

Yup. "I'm angry and hurt so look at me."
 
Gus Mahler said:
Yup. Like a velvet Elvis or a souvenir plate you'd buy at a Stuckey's.

Yup. "I'm angry and hurt so look at me."
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Further, as an African-American I frequently see other young African-Americans with excessive tattoo's. From a distance I see nothing, only up close. Then I end up staring like some half blind oldster or voyeur, just trying to make it out. Is it a tattoo or not? What is it of? I mean why bother? If I'm a foot away still trying to figure out what the heck it is, I'm close enough for you and I to actually have a conversation. I've said to some youngsters tattoo's don't individuate you. How is it a singular expression when you all have one? We all could walk around wearing paper hats and hollowed out beer kegs and we could recognize each other from across the room. What distinguishes you from that other guy is what you say and what you do. Some kids actually listen.
 
I tell everyone who tells me they are getting a tattoo to be careful what you get tattooed. My daughter went down to Cancun with friend in college, they decided to get their first tattoos down there. She decided to get the Chinese writing of Taurus on her wrist. Coming back she and was at a restaurant in China Town and waitress ask (with strong Chinese accent): "What you got on your wrist?" she said Taurus the bull. The women said - "that is not bull that cow - why you have COW on your wrist?" So now when she does something we want to get back at her we say "Why you have COW on your wrist." :D
 
Do you think the staff avoids recruiting players with visible body art?
 
victor64 said:
Do you think the staff avoids recruiting players with visible body art?
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Probably. Imagine what they'd do if a player had a sleeve? You can't hide something like that with kinesiotape.
 
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