It Wasn't Supposed To Be Here

[RockyMTblue2]

What it? The It of course.

“We thought we’d be there for a couple of years, we’d go from the bottom to the middle and then go somewhere really good where we’d have a chance to win the whole thing,” Dailey said. “We had no idea when we started that it would be here.”
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“I think that we have always tried to make sure that we as coaches and our players understand where we came from, and that there were people before our current players that allowed them to have what they have now,” Dailey said. “When these sorts of milestones come up, you think about the people that all had a hand in what’s an amazing accomplishment, something that when we started we never thought that it was even a possibility. Not a thought, not a possibility. We just wanted to win more games than some other teams in our conference.”

UConn Insider: Chris Dailey Sharing In Geno Auriemma's Milestone

Pinch yourself Chris. It's real.

 

[GoingPostal]

The second paragraph above really encapsulates the thinking of the coaching staff when recruitig young women to become the Huskies of the future. Players who will come in and embrace the traditions that have been laid out for them by past Huskies. Havng someone of the stature and integrity of CD to ensure that those standards are continued is the key to the tradition of Uconn WBB continuing on.

 

[bags27]

What's interesting is that in retrospect CD sees herself as Geno's lifelong partner from the very beginning:

We thought we’d be there for a couple of years, we’d go from the bottom to the middle and then go somewhere really good where we’d have a chance to win the whole thing,”
Did she really think way back then that she would be with Geno her entire career? How could she (anyone) possibly think that? She certainly thought that she'd eventually go her own way and be a head coach herself. After all, she had applied for the HC position at UConn: that was her ambition. But years turn into decades and now she can't have imagined her life other than being Geno's partner.

Really nice when you can look back and see that (with a lot of luck) you made the right decision for yourself.

 

[RockyMTblue2]

As CD says at 2:24 ish: "So far this is it." Lucky UConn.

 

[bags27]

Sue is listed at 5'9", D and Maya at 6' even. Sue is standing a bit forward, giving her maybe another inch. But really, can D be 6??

 

[RegisteredUconn]

What's interesting is that in retrospect CD sees herself as Geno's lifelong partner from the very beginning:

We thought we’d be there for a couple of years, we’d go from the bottom to the middle and then go somewhere really good where we’d have a chance to win the whole thing,”
Did she really think way back then that she would be with Geno her entire career? How could she (anyone) possibly think that? She certainly thought that she'd eventually go her own way and be a head coach herself. After all, she had applied for the HC position at UConn: that was her ambition. But years turn into decades and now she can't have imagined her life other than being Geno's partner.

Really nice when you can look back and see that (with a lot of luck) you made the right decision for yourself.

I think what Chris is saying is, "We thought we were talented; we thought we were good. We even believed we were good enough to possibly win it all. What we didn't know was that we were good enough to win it all at Podunk U."

What she and Geno have done at UConn is, on a somewhat less grand scale, analogous to Edison inventing the lightbulb. Edison didn't simply create a device that transformed electricity into light then plug it into an existing, functioning electric grid. That would have been noteworthy. He also had to create the entire electric infrastructure. That's what was truly remarkable.

What Chris didn't know was that the journey she would take at UConn would be so remarkable that she would find taking it as an associate HC more rewarding than being an actual head coach almost anywhere else.

 

[j66kicker]

Sue is listed at 5'9", D and Maya at 6' even. Sue is standing a bit forward, giving her maybe another inch. But really, can D be 6??
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I'm 6'0" and I've stood next to her. I know that's not a very accurate measure [either], but it seemed like she was my height.