SNY streaming Jim Penders interview April 18th

[HuskyNan]

SNY TO DEBUT NEW SEVEN - PART DIGITAL SERIES

HUSKIES AT HOME

First Webisode to Premiere this Saturday at 10:00 AM on SNY.tv

While sports have come to a pause, SNY is hoping to help fill a little of the void for UConn Huskies fans with a new weekly digital series, Huskies at Home. SNY, home of the UConn Huskies, will catch up with seven of the Huskies’ most prominent coaches including Geno Auriemma, Dan Hurley andRandy Edsall on how they are doing personally and how their players are doing during these uncertain times. Hosted by SNY anchor and UConn side-line reporter Maria Marino, a new episode of Huskies at Home will be available weekly on SNY.tvon Saturday’s at 10:00 AM.

In the first episode Marino catches up with head women’s basketball coach Geno Auriemma – he shares his unique perspective on life in quarantine and goes into detail about the hardest part of this for him from a coaching standpoint: “You’ve lost the thing that makes us what we are. We are relationship people. We’re coaches. We’re teachers. The hardest thing is coming to grips with- that you don’t have the things that make you who you are every day.”

He also shares the struggle for his players: “They’re sitting around asking questions “what do you think is going to happen? And we don’t have the answers. It’s one of the first times in our coaching careers when people ask you a question, we don’t have an answer.”

The second episode of the seven-part series of Huskies at Home will feature Jim Penders, UConn’s head baseball coach.

Huskies at Home schedule:
April 11 - Geno Auriemma, Head Coach Women’s Basketball
April 18 - Jim Penders, Head Coach Baseball
April 25 - Nancy Stevens, Head Coach Field Hockey
May 2 - Dan Hurley, Head Coach Men’s Basketball
May 5 - Mike Cavanaugh, Head Coach Men’s Ice Hockey
May 16 - Randy Edsall, Head Coach Football
May 23 - David Benedict, UConn Huskies Athletic Director

Visit SNY.tv weekly for exclusive UConn Huskies content: www.SNY.tv.

 

[huskymedic]

Lot of good info here...
> Private $$ funding available for a few who really wanted to come back after truncated season and confirmation that Brodnansky is moving on.
>Transfer Portal clarity
>MLB Draft talk
>Fall “Senior Day”

 

[dbmill]

Lot of good info here...
> Private $$ funding available for a few who really wanted to come back after truncated season and confirmation that Brodnansky is moving on.
>Transfer Portal clarity
>MLB Draft talk
>Fall “Senior Day”

Jim Penders with a beard coming in is something that takes a little time to get used to. This interview is definitely worth a listen, even if Chris Jones is not in on it.

It would not surprise me if the Fall "Senior Day" that is mentioned here gets combined with the Alumni Day proceedings.

 

[husky8273]

"3-4 tough conversations with freshman/sophomores who we could not renew their scholarships". Is this unique due to this year's unusual circumstances or a normal annual occurrence?

 

[huskymedic]

"3-4 tough conversations with freshman/sophomores who we could not renew their scholarships". Is this unique due to this year's unusual circumstances or a normal annual occurrence?

There always seems to be some turnover but 4 (P Leif Bigelow, INF Tyler Griggs, P Max Nielsen and P Tim Pfaffenbichler) is on the higher end for “end of year” moves and likely more related to this years uncertainty.

 

[dbmill]

"3-4 tough conversations with freshman/sophomores who we could not renew their scholarships". Is this unique due to this year's unusual circumstances or a normal annual occurrence?

There always seems to be some turnover but 4 (P Leif Bigelow, INF Tyler Griggs, P Max Nielsen and P Tim Pfaffenbichler) is on the higher end for “end of year” moves and likely more related to this years uncertainty.

Part of the problem here is that there is the expectation that certain players would be expected to move on to the pro ranks once they become draft eligible, usually after their junior year. Penders mentioned that under normal circumstances that he expected about 6 or 7 players would be taken in the MLB draft. With the truncated draft that is likely going to happen this summer, a number of these players won't be drafted. So scholarship money that would probably be freed up by players going pro is not going to happen. These young players on the roster that Penders alluded to no doubt felt a scholarship squeeze between players not going pro as expected and incoming recruits coming in for next season.