Unpopular WBB Opinions That You Hold

[meyers7]

Ha my friend was watching the Lakers once and she said 'OMG! Kobe passed the ball!'

Yea well there's quite a difference between Kobe and King James.

 

[Buzzyboy]

Interesting thread idea, Ghostmutt. I will have it.

- Gail Goestenkors was a great coach at Duke. Duke was tight in games in 2003 and 2004, but between 2005 and 2007, with all that she loss to graduation, she actually demonstrated how great of a coach she was at Duke.
- If Muffet McGraw could have recruited better on a more consistent basis, she would be considered an equal to Geno Auriemma and Pat Summitt, in the eyes of the media.
- If the players are as versatile as the coaches, announcers, etc. would like us to believe, the quality of games would be much better.

I personally think recruiting is one aspect of coaching. You have to know how and who to recruit and be able to "sell them" on what the university and program has to offer them. Evidently Geno is better at doing this than Muffitt and when you consider that he started with a program that was nothing and a fieldhouse that was a dump, leaking like a sieve, WOW! Muffitt has coached at a university that has had a magical allure forever, even in sports other than football. The educational aspect of it, the aura of the campus and yet she couldn't get the higher rated recruits to Notre Dame. It seems like other than a couple of years with Ruth Riley and the last three years of Duggins, Notre Dame hasn't been nothing more than a solid program. Can you say that both had an even playing field. I dare say no. When he started Geno had a program and facilities and a university that no talented women basketball player aspired to attend and yet once they started winning, competing at a pretty high level (1990-91), there's been no stopping them. Our bad years, our most awful years since, were comparable to Muffett's best years other than the two brief periods I mentioned above. Why is that????? Why hasn't she had nearly the same level of success despite having an overwhelmingly favorable situation????????????? Muffett is an outstanding coach but she DEFINITELY ISN'T GENO!!!!!!!! For anyone to say differently doesn't stand up!!! Could she have built the Huskies into what they are, had she been here in 1985 instead. I would emphatically say "NO" since she has had such a preferable advantage and hasn't come close to multiple national championships, much less EIGHT!!!!!

 

[mauconnfan]

R

Give me a break. I've seen your posts, I've read the men's board and the realignment board and you fit that bill.

As do most posters on the men's board.

Oh doggy....miss ya but you're not any brighter are you?

 

[mauconnfan]

I think we focus more on the basics. Men's basketball seems like a big showboat competition all about dunking and fancy moves and the players don't seem . There are a few that aren't like that but they seem to have this ' it's all about me' thing going on.
The women's game you have better team basketball and more focus on playing the game like it's supposed to be played. And the players seem more like real people not like the men , these huge money makers with as much ego as they do cash and talent.

That is such a load of crap..........again, let's be honest here. You're "team" basketball looks fantastic in 26 of 30 regular season games against teams with little or no chance to come within 40 of the Huskies women. Heck no other teams are good enough to stop the Husky girls from running their stuff which looks so great. But ND who is equal or close makes them look sloppy and out of synch. The man run into that much more often as there are MANY more gifted players on all of the teams they face......even the one's they should beat. Different world, different barometer!! But this fallacy of women's basketball tend so be based more off of fundamentals and basics is laughable!!

 

[katiecrum1992]

That is such a load of crap..........again, let's be honest here. You're "team" basketball looks fantastic in 26 of 30 regular season games against teams with little or no chance to come within 40 of the Huskies women. Heck no other teams are good enough to stop the Husky girls from running their stuff which looks so great. But ND who is equal or close makes them look sloppy and out of synch. The man run into that much more often as there are MANY more gifted players on all of the teams they face......even the one's they should beat. Different world, different barometer!! But this fallacy of women's basketball tend so be based more off of fundamentals and basics is laughable!!

That is true. But you have to work together as a team to play a tough game like that. You have to make good passes and shots and be aware of the defense and offense. Sometimes it takes time to get, but at the end it's rewarded(ex first 3 games against Notre Dame, then the 4th game)

 

[uconnfan68]

here's one, although Geno is a better coach, head to head, Muffet McGraw usually outcoaches him.

If this were true, why does Geno have a 29-8 record against ND?

 

[katiecrum1992]

If this were true, why does Geno have a 29-8 record against ND?

What the coach puts out the players have to execute it, and Notre Dame's players out played us 3 times out of 4.
The last game besides Stewart we were neck and neck for awhile.

 

[mauconnfan]

That is true. But you have to work together as a team to play a tough game like that. You have to make good passes and shots and be aware of the defense and offense. Sometimes it takes time to get, but at the end it's rewarded(ex first 3 games against Notre Dame, then the 4th game)

Let me preface my post with Geno runs the best stuff because he's the best women's coach, by far!! He also is fantastic in targeting opponents weaknesses with his defensive strategies like no other women's coach. Put that together with the best recruits in the country pretty much every year, your "team" basketball will look pretty damn good. Funny though....the opponents are also playing "women's" college basketball but their fundamentals and basic's don't look all that good against the Huskies now do they? It's all relative.........

 

[doggydaddy]

Oh doggy....miss ya but you're not any brighter are you?

Now Mau Mau, did I say you were part of the most?

And how dumb can I be? I retired and I'm now a 9 handicap.

 

[Kibitzer]

You're "team" basketball looks fantastic in 26 of 30 regular season games against teams with little or no chance to come within 40 of the Huskies women. Heck no other teams are good enough to stop the Husky girls from running their stuff which looks so great.

There are several reasons that UConn dominates wcbb. Let me keep it easy for you. Championship teams are consistently winners. UConn is consistently a championship team, unlike wannabes like Notre Dame.

UConn is simply better, much better, than their competition. I hope that is not too difficult for you to understand. And if you are unable to grasp this basic fact, I suggest you learn to deal with it.

 

[rocky rococo]

Here's an opinion that might not be unpopular anywhere other than among a bunch of UConn fans. Tennessee is FAR from finished. They are going to be a major force in wcbb as long as they want to be one. They'll win at least one NC in the next five years.

 

[mauconnfan]

There are several reasons that UConn dominates wcbb. Let me keep it easy for you. Championship teams are consistently winners. UConn is consistently a championship team, unlike wannabes like Notre Dame.

UConn is simply better, much better, than their competition. I hope that is not too difficult for you to understand. And if you are unable to grasp this basic fact, I suggest you learn to deal with it.

Kibitzer, obviously you're way too intelligent for me as I would've never known that. But seeing as you only understand how the women play I now know you know very little about basketball overall so I won't try to explain again my point of view. Way too challenging for you I promise!

 

[meyers7]

There are several reasons that UConn dominates wcbb. Let me keep it easy for you. Championship teams are consistently winners. UConn is consistently a championship team, unlike wannabes like Notre Dame.

UConn is simply better, much better, than their competition. I hope that is not too difficult for you to understand. And if you are unable to grasp this basic fact, I suggest you learn to deal with it.

ehh, you kinda missed mau's point there.

 

[Kibitzer]

It's time for me to withdraw from this thread. Too much unpleasantness.

As Kenny Rogers sang:

"You gotta know when to hold 'em,
know when to fold 'em,
know when to talk away. . . ."

 

[meyers7]

It's time for me to withdraw from this thread. Too much unpleasantness.

As Kenny Rogers sang:

"You gotta know when to hold 'em,
know when to fold 'em,
know when to talk away. . . ."

Well it's a pretty old thread anyway. Not sure why we are retreading it.

As sad as it is/was, I always liked that song. (not that the song was sad, but liking KR )

 

[RSHERMVIKES]

Here's another controversial one, that I hold"
Dunking should be outlawed, because it fundamentally changes the nature of the women's game, which relies on a "below the rim, above the shoulders" mentality for all of what is good about it.

I also think Dunking should be banned in WBB but because it is only used by the "talking suits" to justify why you watch WBB! They go crazy over the dunk and ignore the other obvious reasons that WBB is so great!
There are some of the WCBB coaches that are considered GREAT COACHES but are really GREAT RECRUITERS not GREAT GAME COACHES! Gail Goestenkoers, Sylvia Hatchell, Andy Landers, C. Vivian Stringer, Carolyn Peck, Nell Fortner, Jim Foster, etc. are horrible GAME COACHES but have great athletes playing for them! Sylvia Hatchell has a NCAA title because S. Crawley hit a 3 with 2 sec. left to beat GA! She will never make a Final 4 with this great recruiting class!
One of the biggest changes in WBB has to be improve the quality of the refs they stink! WBB has the worst refs in any sport in the world!

 

[katiecrum1992]

I also think Dunking should be banned in WBB but because it is only used by the "talking suits" to justify why you watch WBB! They go crazy over the dunk and ignore the other obvious reasons that WBB is so great!
There are some of the WCBB coaches that are considered GREAT COACHES but are really GREAT RECRUITERS not GREAT GAME COACHES! Gail Goestenkoers, Sylvia Hatchell, Andy Landers, C. Vivian Stringer, Carolyn Peck, Nell Fortner, Jim Foster, etc. are horrible GAME COACHES but have great athletes playing for them! Sylvia Hatchell has a NCAA title because S. Crawley hit a 3 with 2 sec. left to beat GA! She will never make a Final 4 with this great recruiting class!
One of the biggest changes in WBB has to be improve the quality of the refs they stink! WBB has the worst refs in any sport in the world!

I agree with the refereeing. I follow women's soccer too and I've heard the refs aren't much better.

 

[svetbird]

I also think Dunking should be banned in WBB but because it is only used by the "talking suits" to justify why you watch WBB! They go crazy over the dunk and ignore the other obvious reasons that WBB is so great!
There are some of the WCBB coaches that are considered GREAT COACHES but are really GREAT RECRUITERS not GREAT GAME COACHES! Gail Goestenkoers, Sylvia Hatchell, Andy Landers, C. Vivian Stringer, Carolyn Peck, Nell Fortner, Jim Foster, etc. are horrible GAME COACHES but have great athletes playing for them! Sylvia Hatchell has a NCAA title because S. Crawley hit a 3 with 2 sec. left to beat GA! She will never make a Final 4 with this great recruiting class!
One of the biggest changes in WBB has to be improve the quality of the refs they stink! WBB has the worst refs in any sport in the world!

Never got the Stinger love. She never goes anywhere with her team. There are few great wcbb coaches. Geno Muffet and I would say Walz is well on his way. The biggest difference is Geno is also a great recruiter which makes him and his teams scary good.

 

[mauconnfan]

It's time for me to withdraw from this thread. Too much unpleasantness.

As Kenny Rogers sang:

"You gotta know when to hold 'em,
know when to fold 'em,
know when to talk away. . . ."

Cute!! Good call by the way...........you can't win!!