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Geno calls out men's team fans for reaction after Creighton loss

HuskyNan said:
C’mon now, you’ve been in the women’s chat room. I’ve seen the “doesn’t deserve a scholarship” comment many times, along with loser, waste of space, and similar
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Just to clarify, you've never seen that from me. Ever.

I also guarantee that Geno isn't in the men's chat for the games, so that isn't what he's talking about.

He absolutely has been critical of the women's team fans as well. Honestly, I think that's a bad look too, but he gets more leeway when he stays on his side of the street.

I'm a huge Geno fan, as virtually everyone should be, but, this was kind of an unforced era and entirely unnecessary. There are ways to be supportive of the men's program without calling fanspasstholes.
 
Palatine said:
I don't know. Every team has fans like that. It's not anything special about UConn fans. Check the SJU message board this week I'm sure it's brutal. That part is of the deal with sports. Forget games. Fans overreact to shots or turnovers. Geno must know that. Fan is just short for the word "fanatic."

Which means. -- A person exhibiting extreme, unreasonable, or obsessive zeal. The word is derived from the Latin fānāticus, meaning "mad."

"Mad" in this case is a synonym for insane. It comes with the territory. So there's that.
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Correct, every fanbase has fans like that. And every one of those fans sucks and deserves to be called out by their head coach too
 
Kolumbo said:
That's fine. but if you don't think he just punched the program you need to improve your comprehension. "how can one team have that many ballon knots that follow them." You can hold Geno in the highest regard but still acknowledge that he was wrong and was a balloon knot himself for saying it. We are spoiled, arrogant, and balloon knots. Fine.
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He punched the jerk fans that hate the team when they lose. I hate those same jerk fans. We don’t need those jerk fans.
 
CL82 said:
Just to clarify, you've never seen that from me. Ever.

I also guarantee that Geno isn't in the men's chat for the games, so that isn't what he's talking about.

He absolutely has been critical of the women's team fans as well. Honestly, I think that's a bad look too, but he gets more leeway when he stays on his side of the street.

I'm a huge Geno fan, as virtually everyone should be, but, this was kind of an unforced era and entirely unnecessary. There are ways to be supportive of the men's program without calling fanspasstholes.
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Totally agree. He took a softball question and turned it into something negative. Completely unnecessary.
 
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I don't spend time in the game chats as I prefer paying full attention to the games but having spent nearly a quarter century on different iterations of this board, I can imagine how bad the chat room gets in cases such as the Creighton game.

I also know all too well that many of our fans are exactly as Geno described them. We have many who currently behave as if it's beneath them to be stuck with a team that may possibly end up with a double digit kenpom rating or worse, not be a prohibitive favorite to win the NCAA tournament.

We need to own up to our behavior. If you don't like hearing what Geno said, don't behave in a manner gives him the opportunity to say it.
 
I agree that fans are crazy. But, in general, that is much, much better than having fans that don't care.

As Oscar Wilde said, There is only one thing in life worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.
 
CL82 said:
Just to clarify, you've never seen that from me. Ever.

I also guarantee that Geno isn't in the men's chat for the games, so that isn't what he's talking about.

He absolutely has been critical of the women's team fans as well. Honestly, I think that's a bad look too, but he gets more leeway when he stays on his side of the street.

I'm a huge Geno fan, as virtually everyone should be, but, this was kind of an unforced era and entirely unnecessary. There are ways to be supportive of the men's program without calling fanspasstholes.
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What the hell is he even referring to. Where are all of these heinous comments. I don't criticize players but people certainly have a right to criticize coaches. You don't call your fans balloon knots when they are the folks supporting your program. PC fans are balloon knots. UConn fans are not. Geno has our own fanbase turning against the program.
 
The thing I agree with Geno's sentiment is that fans will judge too harshly. They feel they are 100% correct with some criticism but they can never have 100% of the information. Since I know I dont have all the information about why my team played poorly and Im emotional, I know to step back and not over react.
 
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CL82 said:
Just to clarify, you've never seen that from me. Ever.

I also guarantee that Geno isn't in the men's chat for the games, so that isn't what he's talking about.

He absolutely has been critical of the women's team fans as well. Honestly, I think that's a bad look too, but he gets more leeway when he stays on his side of the street.

I'm a huge Geno fan, as virtually everyone should be, but, this was kind of an unforced era and entirely unnecessary. There are ways to be supportive of the men's program without calling fanspasstholes.
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You’re only seeing the stuff that’s ok to post on the board
 
HuskyNan said:
You’re only seeing the stuff that’s ok to post on the board
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Totally get that, and I appreciate the moderation of the boards, but just to be clear, I have never made the kind of comments you're talking about, in game chat or anywhere else. Your post, unintentionally I'm sure, kind of sounded like you were suggesting that I had.

Again, though, Geno isn't talking about game chats, or post that you guys have, properly, no doubt, deleted. In an event, it's kind of an unforced era to go there when the reporters question teed him up to celebrate a men's basketball win. Instead, he decided to go after their fans.
 
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I'm untroubled by what Geno said.

I would have worded his final sentence with a different emphasis, but that's a minor individual difference. I didn't go all in on the Women's team until Paige's freshman season, and I never imagined I'd watch just shy of every game of both teams; probably a healthy majority of pre- and post-game both head coach interviews; many player interviews; and lots of Instagram content, particularly related to the Women's team.

I already belabor that I sequester my strongest in-the-moment comments within my in-game texting with my forever "little sister." No chat room for me, criticism inevitably implied, but that's a me issue more than a you/them issue.

It's the end of February tomorrow, and the door remains plausibly open for both teams to attain their coaches' 4 stated ambitions:

Big East regular season champs
Big East tournament champs
NCAA Regional champs
NCAA National champs

The players and coaches have both thanked their fans publicly, and Senior Night has been celebrated once with one more to go. Farewells to People's Bank have been said by 2 undefeated teams.

Functionally speaking, in the context of team goals, every game is one and done, though it is only literally true that the NCAA Tournament is season-endingbin the event of a loss.

My fondest wish is that the season is only ¾ complete. That's not a fantasy wish, and a number of other programs have non-fantasy wishes for their team. UConn's non-fantasy wish applies to both teams.

Come together, right now.

Screenshots of in-game texting between myself and someone who 68 years ago was 6 months in utero.
 

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There is a bit of irony to this. I firmly remember Geno saying something to the extent of “I’m in support of paying players as long as I can fire them as well” when the discussion about paying players started to gain traction a few years back. But fans can’t criticize the team for poor performance? Just my opinion, the game completely changed once this happened. Some of these players are making generational money - more than the average Joe will in 30-40 years.
 
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