Geno didn't say that. He referred to the freshmen. I very much doubt the word "scrubs" is something he's ever used to describe athletes who work as hard as the All-Americans.
Geno didn't say that. He referred to the freshmen. I very much doubt the word "scrubs" is something he's ever used to describe athletes who work as hard as the All-Americans. The email address isn't hard to find if you look around a bit, you research scrub.
Oh! See how this works? You refer to me as a research scrubs. So I go find the e-mail for Shea. I am no longer a research scrubs. Motivation!
Did he say scrubs? No. I did. Until they improve they will remain scrubs. It is just a gentle encouragement to improve.
He did say to the season ticket holders: now that you have seen how poorly they practice, maybe you will stop sending us e-mails to give them game minutes. Go to the 32:20 mark in the video below.
Glad you were motivated!
yes, I was there, so I heard it in person and I was not so gently disagreeing with your continuing characterization of non-starters as scrubs. Who do you precisely mean? Would you call that person a scrub to their face or to their parents' faces? I think a litmus test for a public forum like this is to be willing to say in public what we write sitting behind our computers. So, if you say you'd call that person a scrub face-to-face, okay. Maybe you and I just have an honest disagreement about what a scrub means in sports.
Well, sort of. But you say yourself that the term, as you understand it, is used to "insult/motivate" players. But when you use it here, are you motivating anyone? Or are you just insulting them? I guess that's what I'm responding to: you see the word as a negative and yet you use it to refer to young people who have no recourse to react or "be motivated." So, it comes off as just an insult.
Well, sort of. But you say yourself that the term, as you understand it, is used to "insult/motivate" players. But when you use it here, are you motivating anyone? Or are you just insulting them? Don't care one way or another. I guess that's what I'm responding to: you see the word as a negative and yet you use it to refer to young people who have no recourse to react or "be motivated." So, it comes off as just an insult. Too bad. Deal with it.Perhaps you want a society which is a combination of 1984 and Fahrenheit 451.
) when I used the scrub word.) Sometimes the truth hurts but it is best to hear it and deal with it. Maybe not all of it at once. I learned in Toastmasters International when evaluating a speech just give one "biggie" criticism and a few smaller criticisms otherwise you may discourage the speaker. In a new neighborhood eight of us went golfing for fun and to get to know each other. After golf and over brewskis and burgers one father was enthusing about how his son was going to be an NFL pro running back. Eyeballing the father, not quite a medium sized man; I ask how big the son was - 5’7” 165. Someone asked does he start for his high school team – no. A few questions later it was quiet as the father digested the Q&A. Reality was hard but he dealt with it. Hearing the word "choke" is a big nothing. The word choke would bounce right off the UCONN girls. They would either smile and probably laugh or do as Larry Bird did to rookie Reggie Miller who was giving him gas while Bird had two foul shots to shoot. Bird stopped and stared at Miller and said look rookie I am best freaking shooter in the NBA and you are giving me gas. There was a few more freaks but you get the idea. Bird sank the two foul shots and proceeded to pour in many more points. Miller said he never trash talked Bird again. It just brought the best out of him. Which is exactly what the UCONN starters plus Z would do. 
But context is everything. I think it might be hurtful for some of those kids who play incredibly hard and sacrifice a lot to sit on the bench at UConn when they could be playing elsewhere to be called scrubs. Why not just call them 2nd team or freshmen or some other neutral word? I like Howard Cosell’s mantra, “Tell it like it is.” Am I always insensitive? No. I actually am considerate of people’s feelings relative to serious situations. Sports isn’t one of them. Eventually kids will have to leave the bubble and enter the unvarnished world. They will be better off, if they had some practice while growing up. Actually in school is where the really mean people reside, the other students. Talk about name calling. Yikes! I’m sure Geno’s youth in Norristown was not touchy feely. In practice he is not touchy feely. You know he calls his players much worse and his language is quite blue. Some people who object to me using the scrub word; relative to Geno’s adjectives and blue language just look the other way and say it is just Geno being Geno. Surely you are not one of them? So just look away and say it is just SVC being SVC. 