So, Geno is not responsible for the success of UConn women?
So, Geno is not responsible for the success of UConn women?
The NBC crew is doing an really third class job with these Olympics and the commercialism/ commercials per half hour are through the roof. Time to push both - NBC and the "Modern Era $$ Olympics" off the cliff. This was NBC's desperation move to get back into the sports media stream and it is not going well.
I basically tape the games. I have Time Warner Cable and there are about 6 Olympic channels. I have identified events i want to watch and set my DVR to record them. That way I can avoid commercials.There is incredible physical talent and mental fortitude and control in both men and women athletes. Where each individual athlete finds the reserves to push through to world class, well, that is up to each and a personal, private thing. When talking heads speak their own words they mostly get it wrong. The NBC crew is doing an really third class job with these Olympics and the commercialism/ commercials per half hour are through the roof. Time to push both - NBC and the "Modern Era $$ Olympics" off the cliff. This was NBC's desperation move to get back into the sports media stream and it is not going well.
I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but a Chicago paper, merely stating the local connection to an Olympian (wife of CHICAGO Bears lineman) is not attributing her success to anything.
Good lord. Go find your safe space where you aren't terrorized by such a meek micro aggression. You could have saved yourself the anguish by just looking at the source. Admittedly, it would only have been worse if it were posted at Jezebel.com.
Quite a witty retort. If you were actually interested, rather than just echoing the clueless outrage du jour, you'd see that the offending tweet includes a link to the full article about her. Then, the Tribune added another tweet, with her name, literally EIGHT tweets later.Bye, Felipe.
I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but a Chicago paper, merely stating the local connection to an Olympian (wife of CHICAGO Bears lineman) is not attributing her success to anything.
I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but a Chicago paper, merely stating the local connection to an Olympian (wife of CHICAGO Bears lineman) is not attributing her success to anything.
Good lord. Go find your safe space where you aren't terrorized by such a meek micro aggression. You could have saved yourself the anguish by just looking at the source. Admittedly, it would only have been worse if it were posted at Jezebel.com.
over a 30 year period he has built an extraordinary program..... but it couldn't have done it without CD and his assistant coaches and Rosemary; and the support of the AD and the University president .... or Title IX for that matter.So, Geno is not responsible for the success of UConn women?
GENO as a great coach knows that once his team hits the floor it is they who determine whether the game is won or lost--ALMOST.I think that's a logical fallacy (False Dilemma). Geno is greatly responsible for the program's current success. The women who play, work hard, and do (in great measure) what he tells them to do are also responsible for its success.
In post-game interviews, it seems that Geno believes that the women themselves are responsible for their successes (and failures).
over a 30 year period he has built an extraordinary program..... but it couldn't have done it without CD and his assistant coaches and Rosemary; and the support of the AD and the University president .... or Title IX for that matter.
And they couldn't have done it without an extraordinary group of women athletes.
So who is responsible? the university is responsible for the program, that is Geno and CD and staff and AD and admin.
but each individual team and the athletes get the credit for buying in, working hard to be the best they can be, athletically and academically .... and making an impact with their teammates and in their community.
I am a guy, and I have watched some of the Olympics without ever noticing anything along this line. Just as I go through life not noticing that sometimes I get treated differently because I am white. We can all get overly 'PC' or get aggressively anti-PC, but what is happening in our current culture and in most of 'western' culture in the recent past and currently is an attempt to identify ways in which subtle biases creep into our conversations and actions and change that. It is not any single statement or action taken by itself but a preponderance of them that is the problem. Looking at single instances can become 'silly' and create shouts of 'get over yourself', 'too PC', etc. and can bring on quotes when the same 'problem' language or action was used referring to men or people of color or a different religion - but that is not the point, it is the repeated instances over time that create the issue.
So ... while watching the Olympic coverage yesterday after reading this that I began to notice how frequently great female athletes were 'learning' their skill from men. There was no single instance of commentary that was 'out of line', but it was just this preponderance of utterances that I began to notice, culminating in Walsh, a three time Olympic gold medalist, who with a new partner in this Olympics has switched sides of the court and relied on a man to teach her the subtleties. So, yes, I think there is a problem.
It is interesting to note that our laws are beginning to change is a very subtle way as well - harassment of any kind including sexual harassment in the work place and creating a 'hostile work environment' is now being defined more broadly in terms of the 'perception' by the 'victim' rather than by the intent of management or the harasser. It creates a much grayer area in the law, but it is trying to recognize exactly the kinds of issues that are being brought up here. And the issues discussed here are related to a broader discussion of subtleties in classrooms and businesses.
I thought the President published an interesting article that speaks to some of this: Exclusive: President Barack Obama Says, "This Is What a Feminist Looks Like"
(I don't think this is political, so I hope the citation passes muster on the board.)
Certainly Geno is the face of the program, and provided the leadership, the direction the recruiting, the mentoring (and I certainly don't want to minimize the importance of all that); but so do many others in Geno and CD's organization ..... is there some reason why the credit can't be shared with those who so obviously contributed mountains of effort to make the program work so well?I understand your posting, really I do, but while Geno's assistants, associate coaches have certain impact and the AD/Admin must provide financial support --in the end it is Geno's ability to recruit and his ability to mold, cajole his players into greatness that makes the difference.
Does anyone really believe that without Geno Uconn Women's BB would have 11 Ncaa championships and 4 trail truck loads of awards?
I must respectfully disagree, as a game coach he is good .... but not among the best. His strengths are in developing the individual and then molding a team.... he is maybe average in managing close games in the last couple of minutes - the loss to Stanford and the three losses to ND in 2013 come to mind. When it gets down to the end of year tournaments he has narrowed his rotations down to 6 or 7 players and he simply doesn't rotate.GENO as a great coach knows that once his team hits the floor it is they who determine whether the game is won or lost--ALMOST.
It would be naive to think that the Coach has nothing to do with a teams ability to win or lose (Men or Women ). We have seen great coaches whose time outs at the exact right time, with new directions given, that determined the outcome of games. Lou Holtz in football was a wizard of putting in some unexpected play to win. Geno has has similar injections into games. With the number of wins , Championships be they League, NCAA, USA or Olympic any one who thinks his impact on the outcome of game wasn't significant just isn't watching the games.
I am not doubting that, nor disputing those facts - most of us learn important lessons and skills from both genders. What is at dispute is not this process, or the fact that in athletics there is a preponderance of male coaches and support staff, so when citing the coaching an athlete has received there would obviously be more male coaches than female coaches.Women, really smart women, use those who can provide the best guidance to success--be they men or women. I have a cadre of successful women and their role models have been of both sexes, depending upon the area of expertise. In WBB Geno is the ultimate but along with him are a number of great women's coaches--Muffet comes easily to mind.
I personally enjoy the backstories, and have always advocated the mute button for those that do not. In this thread you fail to consider the intent of the tweet and the backstories. In both cases the intent is make the subject more easy to relate to. In the Chicago Tribune wife of Bear's Lineman establishes an immediate relation to a majority of the audience. All sports have down time and filling that down time with back stories is an attempt to retain the attention of the audience. The backstories rarely get in the way of the real sports action and is hardly the annoyance you are pretending it to be.It's actually why I now refuse to watch US coverage. I never knew how awful it was until 1994, when I traveled to London during the winter Olympics. I was amazed (and delighted) to find that their coverage was actual coverage: they showed each event or game without sentimental back-stories ("She's never been the same since her father had a heart attack driving her to practice" or "He almost lost that hand in a fireworks accident when he was 10-- here's the story"). They didn't keep a running commentary on tangential stories and they surely didn't provide constant cut-away coverage. And remember: that was the Tonya Harding-Nancy Kerrigan year. I did NOT miss that at all (and yes, I understood that this was an American story, but it was also an international story).
I've heard that with a good VPN, a person could spoof her IP address and watch streaming Canadian or British coverage. Just something I've heard, of course.