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Message: [QUOTE="hoophuskee, post: 4120010, member: 3535"] You've made it sound like all posters called out coaches from other teams combined with that if you call out other team’s coaches then you must call out Geno. That's not the case. But aside from that, what if you feel what the other coach did was worse? You seem to not want to distinguish between calling out. Unless you are saying every time a coach calls out a player it is exactly equal to any other comment made by any other coach that criticizes publicly? SO when for example the Florida coach Cam Newbauer was accused by players on his own team of different issues (you can google it), that is the same as what Geno is doing? You can tell the difference, right? For the record, these allegations could be completely false against Cam- I don’t know. I was just using this an example to show that there are differences. And that is awesome that you coached and congrats super great for you. I mean that - awesome. And please don’t take offense. But why must Geno be exactly like you? SO following up with that- you agree that in all of sports there are some coaches thought of as "player’s coaches" vs others that are thought of as "tough coaches." right? Well what do you think "tough coaches do? They would be pretty brutal in some circumstances, right? Because even yelling can be considered bullying. I'll PM you where to find the article if you wish. It says that bullying can be a management style and I find it hard to believe the very tough coaches - the very tough ones don't use bullying in some manner. And you have a style of things to be best said one-on-one. Well don’t you think Geno says things one-on-one too? But are you suggesting he must follow your guidelines exactly and if he isn't then he is going over-the-line? If so, how many former UCONN players can you find me or tell me about that have transferred that seem to agree with your philosophy that Geno has gone over-the-line? You are saying that, aren't you? And the point of bringing up Geno's record is because there are also comments on here that what he is doing doesn't really help the player. That's why I brought it up. It's that his players aren't complaining though. The only ones that are complaining are fans on a chat board that have no idea the relationship of Geno’s relationship with the player. I'm absolutely fine what he’s doing. And if I criticize other teams (and I may have bias against some teams anyhow which imo is no problem because sports is emotional)) – At least for me when I criticize other coaches, I tend to feel there is a definite separation between what Geno does vs the specific ones I criticized. And for the ones that have criticized other coaches, what if they were wrong in some cases for doing so??? They need to compound that wrong? [/QUOTE]

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