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Message: [QUOTE="RockyMTblue2, post: 2954851, member: 250"] [URL="https://www.courant.com/sports/uconn-womens-basketball/hc-sp-q-and-a-geno-auriemma-player-management-20181210-story.html"]Q&A: UConn coach Geno Auriemma talks managing players and expectations[/URL] And an embedded Podcast of a media person interviewing a media person. And the host always talks too much, but go for it. “Coaches walk a fine line — I know I do — between do you just let it go and sugarcoat it and then game reality sets in and they’re not prepared? Or do you take a shot at it and take the chance that what if they don’t respond properly and everybody on the outside world goes ‘Oh, you’re being too hard on them?’ It’s a hard game, and it’s competition, and it’s not for the faint of heart. So you’re going to get toughened up somehow. Either the kids are going to be hard on themselves and you can back off or they want to feel sorry for themselves and you have to step in and be hard on them. So the kids that are hard on themselves, I let them alone. They’re putting the pressure on themselves that they need to put on themselves. But those guys that pretend ‘Oh, I got this,’ are the ones you’ve got to go like ‘No, you don’t.’” [/QUOTE]