Forget about the Connecticut comments did you hear the passive aggressive throwing his kids under the bus?
Ed Cooley:
This loss is on me.
….because my team didn’t execute
This loss is 100% on me.
…. Because my guys didn’t follow the scout.
(My bench didn’t under perform)
…. I just shouldn’t have substituted.
What a world class this guy is. Periodically, I find myself having respect for Cooley, but then he reminds me of who he is.
His media skills are part of his package.
In the full interview, once he stakes out the two poles, "It's 100%, even 1000% percent me, and I'm going to coach them up & love them up over the next 72 hours, and I promise you'll see different and better..." and "UConn played great, truly an A+ game...," he's created lots of space to say just about anything he wants, which he did.
We, of course, are free to call BS and poke at the holes, but he's not going to get too challenged any further by the press who will point to or be pointed to his 'full assumption of responsibility' and his 'gentlemanly high compliment toward the winning team.' New day, starting today...
Never lose site that part of his mission is charging up the fans as well as the players, regional rivalry-building, capturing mindshare within & for the conference, and generating positive press, especially as he pursues permanent fixturedom in his hometown. He's quite well-regarded at his game, and his partisans helped to have this board wrapped in its own stuff for the past several days.
The 'sneaky' pot-stirrers aren't here this morning with posts that say, "I'm so happy about how we played last night." Their play acting as UConn fans semi-expired last night; it'll be back for the BET. They gave it their best shot, and won some Likes on both helpful data and doubting opinions that mirrored our collective/selective insecurities.
I fell asleep about halfway through reading the UConn Game thread on the ScoutFriars board, where I saw posts by guys with names like FriarJ and ADub. I searched it out and visited for the first time pre-game because I wondered what kind of fansite would a team have that could make it seem worthwhile to post elsewhere.
There's so much more posting variety and volume (and volatility) here that it's no wonder that 'visitors' can & do come here with the extra time available from a less active fan site. But my visit yesterday afternoon took some of the pre-game edge off. I can see strengths in Providence's program and its success this season and the year before.
I can also see ways in which they leveraged last year's Sanogo-less XL victory, plus the lack of a rematch due to COVID-related matters, plus January's second half in Providence into their appearance as a giant. Last night rebalanced things. They still play hard, have a good mix of players, and an energizing coach. Their initial punches brought out some good things in our Huskies last night. May we continue to build.
