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Message: [QUOTE="RockyMTblue2, post: 2784932, member: 250"] Podcast. [URL='http://www.courant.com/sports/uconn-womens-basketball/hc-sp-geno-auriemma-weighs-in-20180717-story.html']UConn Insider Podcast: Geno Auriemma On The State Of Basketball, His Future With UConn Women[/URL] Gotta hustle chores and listen to this later. Some edited transcript: “We talk about this a lot. I go watch kids play and there’s a lot of talent out there. These kids can play. I remember watching 20 years ago and then watching today -- it’s like night and day. It’s remarkable, the ability that these kids have. I’m watching kids in ninth and 10th grade that would’ve been really good college players back 20 years ago. The level of talent is so amazing relative to 20 years ago. But the level of disrespect for the game, for their coaches, for their teammates, is at an all-time high. The level of involvement by their parents, the circus show that the parents and the other people put on that are around these kids just really leaves a lot to be desired. Here you are out there watching some of the best kids out there ever and you’ve got to deal with the whole ridiculousness that goes along with it — the show and the kids trying to brand themselves and how many people are trying to get involved. Unfortunately that’s just symptomatic. It’s there on the men’s side to an even greater degree. It’s there on the women’s side, and it’s there in the WNBA. So the players, I think, have to remember that this is a game and they have to get better. They don’t have to do anything else other than get better. You don’t have to be a YouTube sensation, you don’t have to send 15,000 Twitter messages every day. You just have to get better as a basketball player and be a great teammate. You’ve got to want to go to school because you want to accomplish something. So the players have got to get better at being good basketball players. They already have the talent, but they’ve got to get better as basketball players ...” [/QUOTE]

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