“We could save you a lot of problems and just lose in the first round,” Auriemma said. “Then you won’t have so much angst. But you know what, we’re going to punish you, we’re going to be just good enough to torment you... We’re going to torture you. How’s that?”
Unfortunately, a lot of this is Geno at his absolute worst, with the fan shaming and such that he's been falling back on these past four or five years, I guess to deflect from these dreadful losses.
"As well as Arizona played, had we just done a little more of what we were accustomed to doing, we would have won the game."
Correct, Geno. And as you know, it's your job as head coach, to get them to do what they are accustomed to doing in a national semi-final like they do in any other game. And to get them to do it even though, yes, the competition is tougher in those games. For three of those four years, you had the better team and the better players on the floor. And each time they lost in pretty much the same manner, with similar game plans deployed against them, while being unable to perform at their own baseline level of proficiency. It must feel like groundhog day for you, coach. So how about you figure out what keeps going wrong, and then go fix it? And while you're at it, you may want to consider showing a little less distain for the fans out there, spoiled as some of us indeed are.
