It was clearly a swipe at A'ja, and Dawn doesn't play that. Insult her all you want, if you must. However, A'ja is off limits.
I love the man, but he was being a smarta.. while playing to the local press. Live by the quip, die by the quip. I'm sure that he has reached out to Dawn to apologize and pay his respects. I hope that he has reached out to A'ja as well. She is a gem. Geno recruited her hard, for the very reasons her statue stands proudly on SC's campus.
The comment was general. He didn't say it was Dawn explicitly She's not the only school with a statue for a coach or player. He could've been referring to Muffet, which would make sense, as they don't like each other. They would shade each other constantly back then.
i agree
based on what I saw the past two seasons
I agree. It was a swipe, and he had every right to do it at the parade. To the victor go the spoils. I think back to 2023 after the Aces beat the Liberty and Becky Hammon took swipes at Stewie at the parade. She had every right to do so at that time.
He could’ve been talking about his own players or Muffet. Dawn isn’t the only coach with statues.
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He was talking about A'ja Wilson.
So, the multiple NCAA titles, SEC regular season and tournament titles, 2020 Olympic championship, and National COY awards don't exist?
Do you know the reason for the statue? This post isn't as funny as you think it is...
I didn’t hear him say “A’ja Wilson” in the comment. It’s literally just assumptions that could pertain to multiple people.
Yep. And pig estheticians.Didn’t realize UConn had so many contortionists among their fan base.
He said that at some schools, people get a statue from winning ONE championship. ONE. The implication here was clear.
I have to laugh at this point! He wasn't going to come out and say, "South Carolina built A'ja a statue after winning only one title!" It's called "shade" for a reason.Didn’t realize UConn had so many contortionists among their fan base.
I think the thing that you and others aren't grasping is that these monuments have greater meaning than championships. A'ja's statue is a symbol of local pride about a woman from the area who took the women's basketball program to the highest of highs. The statue of Dawn wasn't even something she wanted when the city wanted to honor her with one, but when she learned that only 5-6% of all statues are of women, and the goal of the organization behind the statue was to right that statistic, she thought it was an honor to accept the recognition and help further the legacy of female achievement. Additionally, the statue is near where they Confederate flag used to fly at the state capital so there is also a sense of poetic justice resonating from the statue of a black person being located next to that previous symbol of slavery and division.
Gamecocknation could care less how UConn honors its athletes. It’s Husky fans who feel the need to pass judgement on how other schools memorialize their athletic accomplishments. So yes, we accept what UConn does, or doesn’t do, as we just don’t give a damn.
