Reply to thread

Message: [QUOTE="Tufkas, post: 3942210"] Goodness me, some perspective, and perhaps a bit less ego-centrism. People arrive on here, to the TV, to streaming, at disparate places in their lives, hence the escape that sports provides carries vastly different viewpoints, contexts, and importance. Especially in this world, with a horrific pandemic isolating folks, disrupting life, responsible for an unfathomable loss of more than one-half million (!) souls. This in a state without a professional sports team, where the UConn women consistently offer a few hours of positive relief, escape, engagement, whatever. As coach says, people have become accustomed to it. It's dependable, something for some, to look forward to. Hence, we should not impose our value judgements on the way others personally deal with these results. We've no idea the why, or where. For some, boards such as this offer an outlet for folks to vent, discuss, challenge, and sometimes argue. As long as it's civil, it's the nature of the beast, and it's a privilege, not an entitlement, for any of those desiring to participate. Those of us who've coached at the various levels, enjoy the tactical part of the game, DVR'ing frame-by-frame to break down plays. We'd have pressed. Trapped. Sub'ed. Called time outs. Others watch for the beauty of the sport, could care less about the score (as long as they're winning lol). Here, the song remains the same: Coach is never wrong. Coach is wrong. Coach is a genius. Coach is an idiot. Coach has a 11 championships, he's in 2 Halls of Fame, obviously knows far more than us, how dare we even think to criticize? Without us, and our tax dollars playing his salary, he's just a guy who owns Italian restaurants. Lather, rinse, repeat. I personally prefer the John Wooden approach. For all of UCLA's winning, I don't remember like criticism of the fans in Westwood. Or NY Yankee managers from the 30's to 1964 castigating angry fans upon the occasional loss in the World Series, or, perish the though, failure to win an American League pennant. Steinbrenner apologized to the fans after one Fall failure, though the less said of him, the better :). Coach has a different approach. Its tiresome, its silly, perhaps appalling, whatever. Against the sensational talent, the brilliant team-oriented basketball he offers year-after-year, decade after decade, the sheer joy of UConn basketball over those many years, for me, matters not. That it does to others is perfectly reasonable as well. Horses for courses. [/QUOTE]

Verification: First name of men's bb coach

Forum statistics

Threads: 164,463

Messages: 4,397,202

Members: 10,209

Latest member: noelle