Geno coached multiple Olympic winning teams. Those games were televised worldwide. In Australia, the folks that commented on my UConn shirt knew Geno. I'm sure Alabama college football doesn't have a fraction of the reach.
This is just ignorant. No person in the history of televised sports has remembered the women’s basketball coach of another nations team that’s on TV once every 4 years at most. Stop hyperinflating the reach of women’s basketball.
Well, I know of two people in Australia that did. So you're wrong there. I'm not hyperinflating anything. What are you getting out of marginalizing women's basketball?
Can you name three people who coached a women's Olympic basketball team that was not the US team?
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Memphis was worse than us at football for a very very long time
I’m thrilled that 2 people in Australia watch Olympic women’s basketball. Not sure what that has to do with conference realignment. And calling that out isn’t marginalizing anything. Nobody disputes we’re the greatest to ever do it. But it doesn’t mean jack to most of the country. If you want to have an honest conversation about the drivers of conference realignment, you can’t say ridiculous stuff like Geno is more famous than Nick Saban. It’s not true and it’s irrelevant. Our women’s basketball team will have pretty much zero to do with whether we get an invite to a P5 or not. And saying otherwise just exposes your own biases.
I think the issue I can see occuring is that the euro trip is planned. For a bowl game, you won't know you need a passport until you get selected for that bowl. There's not a whole lot of time in-between
Zero issue. State Dept absolutely prioritizes, and expedites as needed.
Not sure how much you’ve lived in or traveled across Asia, but generally interest in women’s basketball is negligible compared even with Europe. More in hyper sport-focused Australia where netball is still played than in most actual Asian nations, but still not a big % of female Aussies.
UConn women's basketball is known internationally. Auriemma is pulling players from all around the world and all of them have wanted to be Connecticut players from a young age. I don't know that that means anything regarding conference realignment, but that doesn't make it not a thing.
won't be a long term thing though. As much as I like Geno he will retire eventually. Either case, womens basketball isn't getting us into the B12.
Pretty sure that no one, anywhere, ever, said that UConn woman's basketball was going to get the university into the big 12, but thank you for acknowledging the obvious.
Who is Jeanne?
I had a similar experience in Montreal.
Australians recognized you?
Down talking even from boosters of a school which is 0-2 against UConn.
