Sporting News [clickbait] Article "Geno Auriemma may soon leave UConn women — for the NBA"

[CL82]

I kid you not. This is an actual Sporting News article.

All speculation and click bait. I guess it is a complement more than anything else.

 

[Wally East]

I kid you not. This is an actual Sporting News article.

All speculation and click bait. I guess it is a complement more than anything else.

I will say that unlike most of these articles, the reporter talked to one/some NBA people, but, yes, mostly click bait.

 

[HoopsFan21]

He's 62. When he leaves UConn it will be for golf courses and wineries.

 

[bags27]

Thanks for the heads up. I won't click! Coaches like Geno should realize that the NBA is a death trap for them. Players have no-cut contracts. Try to motivate them by saying how much they suck, and their agents will sue you.

 

[Uconn93]

I kid you not. This is an actual Sporting News article.

All speculation and click bait. I guess it is a complement more than anything else.

This crap is a blatant attempt to scare recruits away in the name of forced parity. The author should be publicly drawn and quartered.

 

[Matrim55]

He's 62. When he leaves UConn it will be for golf courses and wineries.

Pete Carril left Princeton after 30 years, at age 66, to become an assistant with the Kings.

I think you're underrating Geno's competitive spirit.

 

[Vowelguy]

I guess it is a complement more than anything else.

A complement to what?

 

[mdakota]

If he jumped anywhere, it would be to the WNBA... because the Women's players are more respectable and coachable... Could you imagine Geno working his magic there... I think he could run the table on the rest of the teams

But hopefully when he does retire, Uconn will be the last place he coaches... I'm greedy like that

 

[CL82]

A complement to what?

To the national championship coverage, duh.

 

[NewCorn]

Shoot the messenger (figuratively).

 

[JimGunther]

Sitting here in my pajamas, I could have written that article and had as much credibility.
Made totally out of fantasy.

I'll fill you in on the particulars of his 3 year $30 Million deal tomorrow (hint the un-named NBA team also agreed to hire CD to a comparable deal).
Click This Bozo!

 

[Blueballer]

This stuff pops up EVERY year. Last night at the post game presser he said "If CD and the staff can keep recruiting good kids like they have I'm going to coach for a long time".

 

[Charliebball]

Thanks for the heads up. I won't click! Coaches like Geno should realize that the NBA is a death trap for them. Players have no-cut contracts. Try to motivate them by saying how much they suck, and their agents will sue you.

I highly doubt it would ever happen but as I mentioned on another thread, Geno said on the Michael Kay Show last summer that he would take a job as an assistant coach in the NBA if offered:

"Auriemma said his favorite basketball venue was Cameron Indoor Stadium at Duke, that Maya Moore, Diana Taurasi and Cheryl Miller were the greatest players he'd ever seen and that he would still consider being an NBA assistant coach, but wasn't planning on leaving UConn any time soon.

"You hear that it's always about the money," Auriemma said. "But if they keep paying me the way they are paying me ... "

The audience, filled with many UConn fans, laughed and cheered at his sincerity.

 

[HGN]

Thanks for the heads up. I won't click! Coaches like Geno should realize that the NBA is a death trap for them. Players have no-cut contracts. Try to motivate them by saying how much they suck, and their agents will sue you.

Bags , you hit the nail on the head. Its NO WAY he's leaving UConn for any NBA job no matter how much they offer. His motivational ways and means work very well with college age kids , but will not work with professional athletes with No Trade clauses and Guaranteed contracts.

 

[johnnyc]

This stuff pops up EVERY year. Last night at the post game presser he said "If CD and the staff can keep recruiting good kids like they have I'm going to coach for a long time".

Oh come on. He said that last night. Plenty of time has passed to completely make up another story.

 

[UConnCat]

GENO SHUTS DOWN NBA RUMORS
A report in the Sporting News speculating that Auriemma would "he’d like to try the NBA eventually, either head coaching or part of a staff at first. Not tomorrow, but I think it is a matter of when and not if" is news to Auriemma.

"That came out of the blue, I have no idea where that came from," Auriemma said. "Patrick (McKenna, UConn's women's basketball sports information director) showed it to me this morning and I don't know where that came from. You hear stuff all the time, for all I know if could a guy whose brother or sister coaches at another school."

Then Auriemma had some fun with the report.

"My agent said don't dismiss the rumors, it will help you in contract negotiations," Auriemma said. "I told somebody, I am too young to coach in the NBA. Pete Carril didn't go until he was 66 so I still have a couple more years."

The New Haven Register Blogs: Elm City to Eagleville: A day to remember for UConn's Morgan Tuck

 

[HardHatGuy#2]

CD would slap him silly if he even THOUGHT of doing something stooopid like that.

I think Kathy might hold him still for her, too.

 

[RSHERMVIKES]

HardHatGuy#2 you're right on!
Geno Auriemma is not going anywhere, NBA or whatever for the following 3 reasons:
1. He could not put up with the spoiled millionaire brats in the NBA.
2. Loyalty to Caroline Doty, Shea, & Marisa, as coaches.
3. His Mom is 90+ in Philadelphia area, he's not moving at this stage of the game.