Stewie ticked off at Syracuse?

[HGN]

I sure hope she is a little ticked off.....................A little extra motivation won't hurt tonight.

 

[HoopsFan21]

And bring in 10,000 fans? More than all the other homes games combined? Yeah, I guess you're right, it's not worth it....

Again it may not be entirely in his control. I think a lot of people here have a very simplified idea of how a schedule is put together. I can totally buy that it just wasn't going to work on short notice. Plus not every coach wants to run his team through the meat grinder of playing UConn. Not every coach agrees with our philosophy that everyone should want to play us whenever Geno picks up the phone.

 

[Carnac]

In her very own words she cares: "It would have been really nice to play at home, in the Dome, it’s five minutes away from my house. But when it didn’t happen, there’s not a lot you can do about that. It sucked."

May I remind you all that revenge (be it ever so sweet) is a dish best served ............................chilled. Once Breanna and her mates take care of this little matter, she can put a nice little bow on this season, and her career at UConn. Hollywood could not have thought of a better script for her and UConn teammates to end the season, than at the expense of Syracuse. I think the adage "What goes round comes right back around" applies here. Life is sooooo good!

 

[Aluminny69]

Again it may not be entirely in his control. I think a lot of people here have a very simplified idea of how a schedule is put together. I can totally buy that it just wasn't going to work on short notice. Plus not every coach wants to run his team through the meat grinder of playing UConn. Not every coach agrees with our philosophy that everyone should want to play us whenever Geno picks up the phone.

Hey, Coach Q, welcome to the meat grinder, ready or not!

 

[zakalex]

Coach Q is trying to build his program. Scheduling at big schools is not as easy as one thinks depending on who owns or controls the desired venue. I don't blame him for not wanting to jump through too many hoops or make waves just to accommodate a random team from another conference's last minute request to play just so said random team's star player can play in front of her hometown crowd.

I think Geno has probably been scheduling games longer than Q has and knows that you can't work out anything last minute. He also knew for 4 years that Stewart was going to graduate in 2016. He probably hit up Q last spring or last summer. The question I have is when did he ask Colgate. If that was last minute (and it probably wasn't) then they were HUGE good sports. Well, they were huge good sports whenever it was worked out, imho.

 

[seeya27]

I don't care about any of these sub plots... Lets get to the game already Start the ballet

I could care less, as well. However if Stewie takes it as motivation, all to the good. In the end, I believe it was probably in Q's best interest to play UConn and get a feel for them in a game situation. That would have been great preparation for tonight's game. I suspect he regrets the situation now. Bummer.

 

[seeya27]

I don't care about any of these sub plots... Lets get to the game already Start the ballet

I could care less, as well. However if Stewie takes it as motivation, all to the good. In the end, I believe it was probably in Q's best interest to play UConn and get a feel for them in a game situation. That would have been great preparation for tonight's game. I suspect he regrets the situation now. Bummer.

 

[divots]

Again it may not be entirely in his control. I think a lot of people here have a very simplified idea of how a schedule is put together. I can totally buy that it just wasn't going to work on short notice. Plus not every coach wants to run his team through the meat grinder of playing UConn. Not every coach agrees with our philosophy that everyone should want to play us whenever Geno picks up the phone.

As a longtime men's basketball coach and a former AD and conference chairman I can guarantee you that if my women's program was drawing crowds in the three digits for home games I would have a very difficult time accepting my coach's wish to not schedule the #1 team in the country with the #1 player in the country who, per chance, just happens to live 5 minutes from our campus. I rarely trumped a coach's wishes but some decisions need to be made with respect to the school, the athletic department and the community. Above is the picture that I would probably want to hang in Q's office after the Coppin State game which drew a very generous count of 335 spectators.....

 

[CocoHusky]

But I think in the past 10 years, statics = ND.

ND
Stanford
St. Johns
Baylor

 

[bags27]

NDnStanford St. Johns Baylor

ouch! should have said the last 5 years.

 

[CocoHusky]

I think Geno has probably been scheduling games longer than Q has and knows that you can't work out anything last minute. He also knew for 4 years that Stewart was going to graduate in 2016. He probably hit up Q last spring or last summer. The question I have is when did he ask Colgate. If that was last minute (and it probably wasn't) then they were HUGE good sports. Well, they were huge good sports whenever it was worked out, imho.

It was last minute, after Syracuse said no. Colgate was very gracious.
Voepel: How Colgate made Stewart's homecoming possible.

By the way it is not only Stewie that was pissed about it:
"Alot of teams do that, not just Syracuse," UConn coach Geno Auriemma said of turning down a chance to play UConn. "I don't know what the reason was. But I'm not going to beg anybody to play us."
Geno