What he says to reporters and fans, and what he says to top recruits I would suspect are two different things. He only needs 7 more wins to surpass both Van Der Vere and K.Geno Auriemma gets 1,200th win as UConn routs Seton Hall
UConn's Geno Auriemma joined former Duke men's coach Mike Krzyzewski (1,202) and Stanford's Tara VanDerveer (1,206) as the only coaches in Division I history with 1,200 wins.www.espn.com
How seriously should we take these?
More importantly...how should UConn recruiting targets take them?
Go Huskies! Upset Sunday is coming our way!
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Wouldn't take it seriously at all. Obviously records are meant to be broken. This comes across as he's being realistic that if he does break it, someone else will beat it eventually. Also, it comes across that it's not his primary focus because it's about the team not himself. Isn't that what UConn's all about?Geno Auriemma gets 1,200th win as UConn routs Seton Hall
UConn's Geno Auriemma joined former Duke men's coach Mike Krzyzewski (1,202) and Stanford's Tara VanDerveer (1,206) as the only coaches in Division I history with 1,200 wins.
How seriously should we take these?
More importantly...how should UConn recruiting targets take them?
Go Huskies! Upset Sunday is coming our way!
Geno’s not retiring anytime soon IMHO. I don’t think he’d be recruiting Sarah Strong, Allie Zweibel, and Morgan Chelli, and at the same time contemplating retirement. If and when he does decide to retire, he would give a 2 or 3 year heads up to everyone close to him, including recruits. That would also I think give UConn and the athletic dept time to find a good replacement and minimize a fall off in the program.Geno Auriemma is in his 39th season at UConn and near 1,200 wins. He ponders the end of his career
VILLANOVA, Pa. (AP) — The frame reserved for Geno Auriemma’s photo is empty — it rests atop two display cases of autographed UConn basketballs to the right of a collection of Joel Embiid memorabili…
This AP article made it all the way up to the Adirondacks and has some additional info and
might generate some more 'hmms].
Geno says he does not want a good-bye tour. He also says that he liked
the way Jay Wright of Villanova did it. After taking 'Nova to the final 4 in 2022 he
shocked the university by announcing his retirement a couple of weeks later.
"I'll never be number one in wins," says Geno, suggesting that he can see the end of his career in sight. Of course, as long as he's healthy and motivated, he can certainly put in a few more years. Unsaid is how much the prospect of winning another title factors in. Does he have the material to challenge the best team on his current roster or coming in soon? It's likely he'll be here next year, but who knows?Geno Auriemma gets 1,200th win as UConn routs Seton Hall
UConn's Geno Auriemma joined former Duke men's coach Mike Krzyzewski (1,202) and Stanford's Tara VanDerveer (1,206) as the only coaches in Division I history with 1,200 wins.
How seriously should we take these?
More importantly...how should UConn recruiting targets take them?
Go Huskies! Upset Sunday is coming our way!
That was my first reaction hearing it live. But it doesn't really work in the context. Nor does the "single digits" thing: my wife and I looked at each other like "what the hell was that?"
I think the whole issue is one for fans - not Geno. I don't think he has ever cared about that record. What he cares about is building the best team possible. Each year!
He is going to pass her anyway.
Exactly. Especially as a man in a women's sport, the minute he said something other than what he did say, the next headlines would be Geno thinks Tara is washed up. Geno thinks Tara should retire. Geno thinks Tara will retire. Geno thinks a female coach like Tara won't have more wins than him... he said the safest answer. Remember when he was making comments about transfers and happen to use Park-Lane as an example, how everything immediately became personal to her and his bigger point was completely lost.. I don't envy his position with the press....
He'll pass K this year, but Tara hasn't retired yet, and gives no indication she will. She's only 7 ahead, but she still has good teams.
Yeah, if what he said made headlines, how would the press (and the WCBB public in general) react if he said he thought he'd catch Tara soon? "Does he think Tara's retiring?" "Does he plan on poaching a bunch of Stanford players from the portal?" and it degenerates from there.
Agreed. Articles and questions like that are done to keep us invested in the media. It's a catch-22 because we want to see these teams get the attention they deserve, but it comes with having to read articles like this that stir up discussions like this one.
Have you seen her lately? She’s slowed down a lot. I think she’s slightly older than Geno btw.
Yeah, hopefully, there’s an “understanding” with Shea that he’ll let her know a couple of years in advance so she can get ready to move!
Shea & CarlaYeah, hopefully, there’s an “understanding” with Shea that he’ll let her know a couple of years in advance so she can get ready to move!
I doubt that Shea comes back to Storrs. She has a pretty good deal going at Vanderbilt.Yeah, hopefully, there’s an “understanding” with Shea that he’ll let her know a couple of years in advance so she can get ready to move!
After his next 7 wins he could ikely be 8 wins behind Van Der Vere
Seriously I don’t think he cares at all about “wins”, let Tara keep racking up “wins” over Cal Poly, UC Davis, San Diego St, Portland, Cal, and Loyola Marymount. The great Pat Summitt never cared about racking up wins, but she did care about National Championships and had 8 of them until Geno came along and now has 11 and still counting. A number that K, Calhoun, Tara, Bob Knight, or Dean Smith never dreamed of.
Actually they are wins. She also plays in the Pac-12, so be careful about that. Massey has the Stanford final SOS as 13 where UConn is 7 - not much difference there. I don't understand why the snarky comments on this post about Tara like she doesn't deserve it. It's possible to recognize both of them as outstanding coaches. Good lord.
Geno has been reenergized by the freshmen and that's only going to get better next year with the incoming class of gung-ho recruits........I think he spoke the truth when he said that he would retire when he can no longer get the kind of players that he wants at UConn.........
