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Only if you provide stories.

Sometime when I feel like typing there is a somewhat funny one, but it's a much better story in person. It's way too long from a phone.

The others are mostly boring, except for one I can't tell - most people wouldn't believe it anyway.

I have a relative that married into a family that is in deep with the women's program - I'm sure on Easter I'll get a whole bunch of little tidbits of minor dramas.
 
Yeah, he got the #2,3,5 and 10. He is working with unknowns people, don't you guys get that. And so far this year, he has only managed to get the #1,3 and 4. I am amazed he somehow keeps winning games.
Annnd, another hater arguing with a strawman he created. This straw man apparently said Geno recruits unknowns. Try this one. This Rutgers team is actually one of their weakest, with their five 5 star players. In 2008 they had a class with 5 McD all-americans which they added to an already talented team. Sound familiar? That crew won exactly zero championships. Their coach is why, not their lack of talent.
 
Yep.

And, for the record, while there are very real differences between the games such as size, speed and strength, that doesn't mean there aren't also similarities such as the value of fundamentals and precision of execution. We are talking about two different sports but the difference isn't exactly the same as golf and football.

If there is a lack of parity, it is more the quality of coaches rather than the quality of rosters. Some people are too simple to understand that it is actually a compliment to Calhoun and Ollie to say there is as much lack of parity in the men's game because it points to how amazing it was to win despite having much less talent to work with than, say, Kentucky. Geno is what the squid would be if the squid was as good of a coach.

Lastly, you guys are becoming unhinged because I am hitting a nerve and all you can say is "dope" or make crap up.

I have no problem with Geno being considered one of the best ever, but there is no way you can make the Cal analogy when his kids are generally only there for one season.
 
Annnd, another hater arguing with a strawman he created. This straw man apparently said Geno recruits unknowns. Try this one. This Rutgers team is actually one of their weakest, with their five 5 star players. In 2008 they had a class with 5 McD all-americans which they added to an already talented team. Sound familiar? That crew won exactly zero championships. Their coach is why, not their lack of talent.

I don't root against the Women, but I think it is idiotic of you to say that they didn't get the top recruit last year when they got 3 of the top 5 players and then 3 of the top 4 for next year. According to ESPN, last year Rutgers got 1 four star and a three star, next year 1 four and 3 threes. In the same time UConn got 7 five stars. That is a vast difference in talent.
 
Sometime when I feel like typing there is a somewhat funny one, but it's a much better story in person. It's way too long from a phone.

The others are mostly boring, except for one I can't tell - most people wouldn't believe it anyway.

I have a relative that married into a family that is in deep with the women's program - I'm sure on Easter I'll get a whole bunch of little tidbits of minor dramas.

Damn, you are a tease. I guess you will have to be considered an a** (I wasn't one of the people who had already pegged you as one) until you feel like typing.
 
The women's game is so sad, seriously it's pathetic. I'm sorry geno but I'll be impressed when you win 1 title in the men's game, not taking every top 5 recruit in high school and keep them 4 years. Imagine senior Kemba? That's another title. Senior Drummond? Who's stopping that in college? No one. The men's game is so much harder to coach you really can't explain it in words.
Do you find women attractive?
 
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I have no problem with Geno being considered one of the best ever, but there is no way you can make the Cal analogy when his kids are generally only there for one season.
The one and done insanity helps him, as others have pointed out. If these kids stayed for 4 years, the talent would spread out more. There would be MORE parity, not less. What Ollie achieved last year was really impressive because of the disadvantage. If Rutgers' women's coach was that good and Geno was as mediocre as the squid, Rutgers would have given them a game. People are so hell bent on being obtuse that they are missing the fact that this is simultaneously a compliment to Calhoun/Ollie and Geno. Either that or they are hell bent on never acknowledging Geno as being a great coach.

Many of the same people like to ask how he would do as a men's coach. No one knows the answer to that so why even ask? I think he would struggle with the egos and lack of discipline. If he had the ability to manage the kids like the squid does (he really is a great motivator and salesman), I personally think he would be a better men's coach than the squid. But we will never know for sure.
 
The one and done insanity helps him, as others have pointed out. If these kids stayed for 4 years, the talent would spread out more. There would be MORE parity, not less. What Ollie achieved last year was really impressive because of the disadvantage. If Rutgers' women's coach was that good and Geno was as mediocre as the squid, Rutgers would have given them a game. People are so hell bent on being obtuse that they are missing the fact that this is simultaneously a compliment to Calhoun/Ollie and Geno. Either that or they are hell bent on never acknowledging Geno as being a great coach.

Many of the same people like to ask how he would do as a men's coach. No one knows the answer to that so why even ask? I think he would struggle with the egos and lack of discipline. If he had the ability to manage the kids like the squid does (he really is a great motivator and salesman), I personally think he would be a better men's coach than the squid. But we will never know for sure.

I think there is a fundamental disagreement between you and I on the concept of four year players increasing the parity of the men's game. Was there more parity in the 80's and 90's when it was customary to stay three or four years? I don't really think so. Sure, the talent would be more spread out...but the middle to lower class would still be operating at a talent deficit. Difference is, it would be harder to overcome that deficit because you wouldn't be playing exclusively freshman and sophomores.

But, that is a different discussion. Even if Geno is coaching more talented teams than most everybody else, he still had to earn that respect by working his way up the ladder and initially winning with under-valued players.
 
There's no denying Auriemma is at the point where he gets a lot of top players. And if coaches in all these Power 5 leagues are allowing him to get the top ranked players 2 years in a row ( Tina Charles/Maya Moore, Kaleena Lewis/Breanna Stewart) than they sorta deserve what is coming. Getting top players does not guarantee winning the championship let alone beating every ranked team by 30. Baylor got a 6'8 giant and won once with her, including losing a gimme game to the team UConn throttled in the championship.

And getting the top players now does not mean he is not a great coach. I have the 1991 DVD of his first Final 4 team and he started 5 of the slowest most un athletic mullet wearing white girls you will ever see and still got them that far that year. And than he got local girls Lobo/Sales and beat Tennessee who had like 10 All Americans on their 1995 team. I don't think you get from that starting point to where they are now without being a great coach and to diminish his coaching abilities is rather dumb. He's certainly not without flaws. His teams don't play a lot of close games so he does look a little iffy at times in the end of game situations.
 
F all this bullsh1t..... Mens...womens.....geno....Jimmy.......they're all UConn, and they're all dominant. Leave it at that....cause it's the truth.

Now let's have a real debate:...... Who's the hottest?

I've got Nurse..... I can watch her all day:oops:

(It can be past or present, and please Fishy, let's just keep it with the lady huskies;))
 
F all this bullsh1t..... Mens...womens.....geno....Jimmy..they're all UConn, and they're all dominant. Leave it at that....cause it's the truth.

Now let's have a real debate:. Who's the hottest?

I've got Nurse..... I can watch her all day:oops:

(It can be past or present, and please Fishy, let's just keep it with the lady huskies;))

Meghan Gardler
 
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How would like to be Vivian Stringer who gets a $500,000 bonus if she makes the sweet sixteen.

But she has to beat UConn to get there....
Why is she getting $500,000 bonus for doing what is basic to her job? This is insane.
 
Does anyone know if Larry Brown thinks UConn can beat a WNBA team?
 
Yeah, he got the #2,3,5 and 10. He is working with unknowns people, don't you guys get that. And so far this year, he has only managed to get the #1,3 and 4. I am amazed he somehow keeps winning games.
What i find funny is how some people here gloat over Genos dominance over the womens game but then criticize Squid for doing pretty much the same thing. If not for Uconn:D Squid is sitting on 3 titles and going for #4 in the last 5 years.
 
What i find funny is how some people here gloat over Genos dominance over the womens game but then criticize Squid for doing pretty much the same thing. If not for Uconn:D Squid is sitting on 3 titles and going for #4 in the last 5 years.
If not for the good UConn coaches AND his own mediocrity, you mean. And Geno does not make a mockery of college athletics by recruiting nothing but players who could care less about academics. I get that the system allows him to do it but he doesn't have to recruit only players who have zero intention of learning anything while they hang out in wildcat lounge for a year.
 
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The women's game is so sad, seriously it's pathetic. I'm sorry geno but I'll be impressed when you win 1 title in the men's game, not taking every top 5 recruit in high school and keep them 4 years. Imagine senior Kemba? That's another title. Senior Drummond? Who's stopping that in college? No one. The men's game is so much harder to coach you really can't explain it in words.
Drummond would've been a senior this year hahahaha. He probably would average 30 pts and 15 boards.
 
F all this bullsh1t..... Mens...womens.....geno....Jimmy..they're all UConn, and they're all dominant. Leave it at that....cause it's the truth.

Now let's have a real debate:. Who's the hottest?

I've got Nurse..... I can watch her all day:oops:

(It can be past or present, and please Fishy, let's just keep it with the lady huskies;))

Let's be honest as we can here, there isn't any "hot" ones running up and down the court in a Husky uni. They are all nice kids and stuff, but we'd need to go back a while for that!
 
The women's game is so sad, seriously it's pathetic. I'm sorry geno but I'll be impressed when you win 1 title in the men's game, not taking every top 5 recruit in high school and keep them 4 years. Imagine senior Kemba? That's another title. Senior Drummond? Who's stopping that in college? No one. The men's game is so much harder to coach you really can't explain it in words.

Coaching basketball isn't rocket science. Of course you're limited by your talent, but at the end of the day it's pretty simple. Can you get high percentage shots for your best players? Can you keep the opposing team from getting high percentage shots for their best players? Sorry to go all Hubie Brown on you but yeah... Geno has a lot of talent to work with but they still play beautiful basketball.
 
The women's game is so sad, seriously it's pathetic. I'm sorry geno but I'll be impressed when you win 1 title in the men's game, not taking every top 5 recruit in high school and keep them 4 years. Imagine senior Kemba? That's another title. Senior Drummond? Who's stopping that in college? No one. The men's game is so much harder to coach you really can't explain it in words.


I'm not a UCONN women's basketball fan either. It really is like watching wrestling -you know the outcome before the game.
that being said no denying Geno being a great HOF coach.


The elite recruits have really very few schools to go to that for all intensive purposes that guarantees them a shot at going to the Final Four (s)(and beyond)..

Great point about the women getting to stay for 4 years. I've said the same thing for years.

If JC had that luxury we would have a couple more bed sheets in the rafters.

Would love to see Geno have to deal with the same rules that JC/KO have/had to deal with and see what the results would be.

Not having Stewart, Taurasi, Moore, Bird. Lobo and Charles etc. for 4 years. I think would tend to slow the machine that UCONN women's basketball is down. Geno would still be a HOF coach he just wouldn't have non stop Championships.
 
The women's game is so sad, seriously it's pathetic. I'm sorry geno but I'll be impressed when you win 1 title in the men's game, not taking every top 5 recruit in high school and keep them 4 years. Imagine senior Kemba? That's another title. Senior Drummond? Who's stopping that in college? No one. The men's game is so much harder to coach you really can't explain it in words.
Somehow I think Geno will find a way to live with your disinterest.
 
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The women's game is so sad, seriously it's pathetic. I'm sorry geno but I'll be impressed when you win 1 title in the men's game, not taking every top 5 recruit in high school and keep them 4 years. Imagine senior Kemba? That's another title. Senior Drummond? Who's stopping that in college? No one. The men's game is so much harder to coach you really can't explain it in words.
You realize that the women's programs at every other university in the country are also able to recruit from the same pool and maintain their players for the same four year period right? Until anyone else comes close to doing it the way Geno has I find it hard to believe that you can't find some level of respect and admiration for what he's created and maintained.
 
Somehow I think Geno will find a way to live with your disinterest.
I hope he lives long and happy, represents the university well. Nothing against him personally.
 
You realize that the women's programs at every other university in the country are also able to recruit from the same pool and maintain their players for the same four year period right? Until anyone else comes close to doing it the way Geno has I find it hard to believe that you can't find some level of respect and admiration for what he's created and maintained.
I never said I didn't respect him, I'm saying his accomplishments aren't as special as some would like to pretend.
 
I don't want people to think I don't like geno or the women's program, that's not the case. I'm just arguing his accomplishments and in comparisons to our game. No hate here
 
I don't root against the Women, but I think it is idiotic of you to say that they didn't get the top recruit last year when they got 3 of the top 5 players and then 3 of the top 4 for next year. According to ESPN, last year Rutgers got 1 four star and a three star, next year 1 four and 3 threes. In the same time UConn got 7 five stars. That is a vast difference in talent.
Totally untrue about the recruiting rankings of last years players. One was rated as high as number 2 but the other three players were like 18,33 and 35. And there are other teams that recruit as well as he does but have no titles......why not? The year before last year his only recruit was rated in the 70's.
 
I don't want people to think I don't like geno or the women's program, that's not the case. I'm just arguing his accomplishments and in comparisons to our game. No hate here
No one with more than a scintilla of intelligence would compare the accomplishments of a women's coach versus a men's. That said, there is no denying how ridiculously successful Geno has been. Im only a very casual fan of the women's team (i cheer for everything UCONN) but it seems awfully clear that he is the greatest coach in the history of the womens game and that is quite an accomplishment in its own right.
 
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