OK... So Who's Gonna Replace... (Uh, you know...)

[chrissaran]

Jen has not been recruiting for UConn. It's a much more difficult job recruiting for Hartford or even George Washington.

 

[Longtime fan]

Coach G

I think it will be the end of an era when Coach Auriemma has had enough. I don't know if CD would want to carry on....maybe a transitional year or two? But there will not be another Geno.

UCONN will try to carry on with the same approach, but I have never seen anyone able to express themselves, and what he is trying to do, as well as Geno. He can tailor messages to the psyche of each individual player, and make them want to maximize their skills. No other coach can do that.

Most other coaches become famous when they recruit well, and their players either excel and win championships, or not. Geno doesn't need the best talent ( per other evaluators ) to develop the best players. He sees things that no one else does. He knew, in my opinion, what Gabby Williams could do where others did not. And he brought it out.

It almost doesn't matter who replaces him when that time comes. UCONN will, with coach G's input, do everything they can to maintain the Uconn women's BB program. But it won't ever be the same.

What we are experiencing is unique.

 

[Longtime fan]

Jen has not been recruiting for UConn. It's a much more difficult job recruiting for Hartford or even George Washington.

Certainly true. But if Jen had the skill set of Geno, she would bring out more from what she has. A lot more.

And, when Geno is gone from UCONN, everyone is Jen. The magic of the UCONN name is Geno and his coaching staff. The letters on the jersey won't mean anything special.

You feel me?

 

[BroadwayVa]

Sorry BroadwayVa, but the quotation (from Plato) is the river itself, which is changed by the changing waters
"Heraclitus, I believe, says that all things go and nothing stays, and comparing existents to the flow of a river, he says you could not step twice into the same river" (Cratylus 402a).

It was this crisis in the changeability of nature that led Plato to his theory of Forms, probably the most influential concept in the history of Western philosophy and religion. Just sayin'...

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There is also the quote, from whom I don't know--that says---as much as everything changes --the more it stays the same. Which in and of itself is a truism.
Human looks, language, customs, cultures change--yet the day to day trials and tribulation stay the same. War's come and wars go--people hopefully believe that they shall end--in the time of human existence has it ever stopped--two wars in the past century--were wars to end all wars--the atomic bomb was supposed make war obsolete---yet here we are Iraq, Afghanistan, China, isis, even Russia rattling sabers --the more it remains the same.
I now turn my pulpit over to you...
Again, i appreciate your in roads to past histories and individuals--brings back the college courses that were troubling for me.

 

[Sluconn Husky]

He's not going anywhere anytime soon. Signed a new extension in October, details just released by USA Today:

Geno Auriemma's latest contract could keep him at UConn through 2020-21