John A.: Becca Bruszewski denies offending Uconn

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[Kait14]

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Sorry, don't buy it

 

[TDiNozzo]

Seems like two different storys there... Geno told Muffett in May, and she talked to the team.. She is saying if I read it correctly, is just hearing about it? Did I miss something?

 

[schmendrick]

“I don’t want to turn it into a back-and-forth thing. It’s not worth it. Geno and I actually get along very well. I do feel like this year has been hard on him, I guess.”

Wow. Way to stab your friend in the back, Muffet.

Bruszewski also denied that there was an incident between her and Moore after the game.

What?

 

[meyers7]

I don't know, but who gives a crap. It was last year. If it was Becca, she's gone, doesn't have anything to do with the current team. Let's move on.

 

[snowkot]

I'm as absolutely biased UConn as anybody else, but this one seems pretty simple to debunk, one way or the other.

Everyone agrees there was NCAA security outside the locker room. Impartial security who can speak to whether or not the coaching staff was actually standing outside the locker room.

If they were, I have a very hard time believing a player, any player, could simply barge past NCAA security and the coaching staff, enter the locker room, hurl an epithet, withdraw and simply run off without immediate incident. That one definitely fails the smell test.

Which leaves she yelled something - antagonistic (Coach's story) or empathetic (ND's story) - as she ran by, timing it (purposefully or not) to occur at the exact moment she passed Coach and his staff.

Or that everyone - coaches and players were in the locker room, with NCAA security outside. And she barged past security, opened the door, yelled in, and ran off.

Again - easily verifiable as I can't imagine any scenario where security would have forgotten that such an event occurred roughly a year ago.

I suspect this was simply "heat of the moment" stuff. We've all felt and said things in the immediate aftermath of a glorious victory or crushing defeat (on any level) out of passion that we soon regret and that are utterly out of character.

And we've all over-reacted to things we decide someone said - whether they actually did or did not - in those same moments. We're angry. Crushed. Disappointed. Disbelieving. Whatever - not the best moment to be making realistic accurate assessments.

As I said - we've all been there.

Given the timing - almost a year later - I say (apologies to Ally McBeal's Richard Fish) "Bygones."

If this was such a big deal - bring it to the press, the NCAA - whatever - at the time of the incident. Not a year later before a big game against that same opponent.

Making a big deal of this now - to my mind - just makes what is the most powerful and respected program of it's time, and what was among the most awed programs in the history of sport look petty and just plain silly.

We like to compare Coach to the dearly departed Coach Wooden, and our program to UCLA's (my favorite team as a kid). Can anyone here imagine Coach Wooden going to the press with a similar incident at all, let alone a year after it occurred?

Let's let this lie, head to the film room and devise a way first to meet this team again in the tournament, and then to do what they did to us - send them home early!!!

 

[rjp172]

Sorry, don't buy it

The fact that UConn players have denied hearing the remark collaborates Bruisers version. The statement itself can be left up to interpretation as far as what was said, what was meant, what was heard, and the interpretation. The locker room likely didn't happen. The point about security and officials is correct. That and there simply is no way she would to THAT. I can't imagine anyone actually doing that. I won't be surprised if it comes out that it suddenly becomes "as she passed by the door" in a couple of days.

 

[hoopsknowitall]

OK I guess I totally buy the fact that she said "‘Oh, man, that sucks. It could have been us.’ " as she walked by the uconn locker room. LOL seriously you just won the game of your life and you expect everyone to believe you said that?

It was a heat of the moment thing by her to do and I'm not killing her for it but fess up and tell the truth is all I'm asking.

 

[rjp172]

Perhaps she is. Those words can be interpreted as she just said "it must suck to be us". She didn't however open up the door and yell it in the locker room. That's the greater point. Not everyone has to like UConn or feel bad that they lost. She can think and say what she likes as long as she isn't trying to rub a players face in it. She's been on enough losing ends that she knows better. If she was running by and actually said those exact words and a group of coaches were nearby having a discussion and they over heard that as she's passing it's completely conceivable that what they think she said isn't indeed the exact words. It was still a game play/mind trick that GA tried to pull which is really no better then anything she did. It's beneath both.

 

[DaddyChoc]

someone needs to fire their "source"

 

[VAUConnFan]

The anonymous source is going to have to be identified. If everyone agrees that there is heigthened security around the locker rooms at the Final Four and that this incident never received a hint of major media, minor media, or social media attention during the tournament itself, then I am going to have to side with Ms Bruszewski and Notre Dame on this.

 

[DaddyChoc]

The anonymous source is going to have to be identified. If everyone agrees that there is heigthened security around the locker rooms at the Final Four and that this incident never received a hint of major media, minor media, or social media attention during the tournament itself, then I am going to have to side with Ms Bruszewski and Notre Dame on this.

but Geno kept hinting something... CD talking about "no love lost" soooooo people are taking their comments and seeing what they can dig up.

 

[Aluminny69]

There are two very important tenets of American Jurisprudence, and Americans have great difficulty accepting them. One, a person is innocent until proven guilty. Second, a person has an absolute right to face his/her accuser. Anonymous accusations are worthless. Anyone can say anything. Becca didn't really need to provide her side of the story, but she did. I am willing to accept it, until proven otherwise. And Joe Anonymous needs to step up and own his/her accusation.

 

[Kait14]

The fact that UConn players have denied hearing the remark collaborates Bruisers version. The statement itself can be left up to interpretation as far as what was said, what was meant, what was heard, and the interpretation. The locker room likely didn't happen. The point about security and officials is correct. That and there simply is no way she would to THAT. I can't imagine anyone actually doing that. I won't be surprised if it comes out that it suddenly becomes "as she passed by the door" in a couple of days.

Regardless if it did or didn't the players would NEVER acknowledge to the media if she did.. ever

 

[cferraro04]

Truthfully, who cares...this only happens in women's basketball. Do you think this would happen in the men's game? If it did...the next time the teams played it would be taken care of on the hardwood...nobody punks on anybody without there being pay back on the court. It doesn't become a media ping pong game. The important thing is that ND kicked the tar out of us between the lines. We have to make adjustments, we have to rise up and be competitive. There is still a lot of basketball to be played if our players are up to it. We have a conference tournament, we have the NCAAs. ND has shown it has the toughness to be one of the favorites for a championship.... I would say as it stands now...

Baylor - 80 percent chance

ND - 75 percent chance

UConn - 40 percent chance

Stanford - 35 percent chance

 

[DaddyChoc]

Truthfully, who cares...this only happens in women's basketball. Do you think this would happen in the men's game? If it did...the next time the teams played it would be taken care of on the hardwood...nobody punks on anybody without there being pay back on the court. It doesn't become a media ping pong game. The important thing is that ND kicked the tar out of us between the lines. We have to make adjustments, we have to rise up and be competitive. There is still a lot of basketball to be played if our players are up to it. We have a conference tournament, we have the NCAAs. ND has shown it has the toughness to be one of the favorites for a championship.... I would say as it stands now...

Baylor - 80 percent chance

ND - 75 percent chance

UConn - 40 percent chance

Stanford - 35 percent chance

the reason John & Rich (and whoever else) are employed, throw stuff out at rabid fans who enjoys drama

 

[Icebear]

Difference Is that in the men's game the next big story is coming in less than 24 hours and in WCBB there are only so many stories.

 

[nan linds]

Shades of Tennessee's "Geno knows what happened."

 

[justML]

Shades of Tennessee's "Geno knows what happened."

I'm glad ESPN said the name so we won't have years of speculating about whodunnit it and ran.

Whether you believe it or not is up to each individual fan.

Rebecca's gone and so this story soon will be.

 

[VAMike23]

Who knows what the real story is, but some sort of perceived slight obviously occurred.

If Maya was somehow the recipient, or the one within closest earshot, or WHATEVER, then in a perfect world it would be helpful if she would chime in to offer some clarity. Speaking for myself, Maya's would be the final, unimpeachable word on the matter.

The problem is, the probability of Maya even commenting on the subject in a serious manner is verrrry slim, and the probability of her actually entering the fray to call anyone out and name names is even slimmer. (We're talking nanometers here.)

So, I guess it will all just continue as fodder for the BY and the horde until we meet ND again

 

[DishNSwish]

As I wrote on hoopfeed yesterday:

Then there was Connecticut coach Geno Auriemma’s comment on his pre-game show before Saturday’s Marquette game that there was bad blood between the two teams, followed by the perfectly timed release of the information that last year Becca Bruszewski opened the door of the Husky locker room in Indianapolis after their game and yelled “it must suck to be you.” Really? If that’s the big deal needed to motivate a UConn team defending their home away from home and playing for a half of the Big East title, well okay, I’m surprised to say the least.

http://www.hoopfeed.com/content/201...phere-notre-dame-with-a-dominant-performance/

 

[Ozzie Nelson]

I don't understand any of this. Athletes say all kinds of stuff to eachother...and since when is a locker room door open to anyone who passes by?

 

[CTGirl15]

I'm a little confused about the timing of all this, but I believe this is the timeline (correct me if I'm wrong):

So, the timeline for this is that right after the Final Four game, something happened between Notre Dame and UConn. Geno brought the incident to the attention of Muffet and the Big East in May. Muffet asked her players and they denied it. Now, in February, Geno mentions that there is "bad blood" between the teams on his show because of an "incident" that happened. Then, the press gets a hold of this, and an unnamed "source" releases the name and the context of the "incident" to the press. Now, the UConn players are staying mum, ND is playing dumb about the whole thing, and Becca is saying that it was a misunderstanding. This all sounds to me like this was settled in May, but that Geno was still a little miffed so he made a comment on his show that blew up and then the "source" just threw gasoline on the fire.

Honestly, whether it's true or not, I think the press needs to let this one go. The player that was supposedly involved is long gone and according to the article it was brought to the attention of the Big East and Muffet way back in May; there is no need to bring this stuff up. I'm not sure what Geno was trying to accomplish by mentioning it, but it seems to me that this should all just be put to rest.

 

[Ozzie Nelson]

I'm a little confused about the timing of all this, but I believe this is the timeline (correct me if I'm wrong):

So, the timeline for this is that right after the Final Four game, something happened between Notre Dame and UConn. Geno brought the incident to the attention of Muffet and the Big East in May. Muffet asked her players and they denied it. Now, in February, Geno mentions that there is "bad blood" between the teams on his show because of an "incident" that happened. Then, the press gets a hold of this, and an unnamed "source" releases the name and the context of the "incident" to the press. Now, the UConn players are staying mum, ND is playing dumb about the whole thing, and Becca is saying that it was a misunderstanding. This all sounds to me like this was settled in May, but that Geno was still a little miffed so he made a comment on his show that blew up and then the "source" just threw gasoline on the fire.

Honestly, whether it's true or not, I think the press needs to let this one go. The player that was supposedly involved is long gone and according to the article it was brought to the attention of the Big East and Muffet way back in May; there is no need to bring this stuff up. I'm not sure what Geno was trying to accomplish by mentioning it, but it seems to me that this should all just be put to rest.

Here is my problem with gossip...just saying it "happened" makes it true for some. Not for me.

 

[cferraro04]

Like I said somethings are just better off left unsaid...and differences should be settled between the lines. Right now ND is up 2 to 0 with game on the line at the Big East Tournament if we get that far and set on the line at the Final Four of the NCAAs if we get that far. Let the games begin!