Will It Stick?

[RockyMTblue2]

What? The Okey Dokey Kid. Apparently she "can do" so Okey Dokey is fine with me and maybe it'll stick, but I doubt it. Plenty of time for the team nick name Chrystin's team mates will bestow. Who came up with this? Jeff Jacobs in his recruiting article today.

Jeff Jacobs: UConn Women's Basketball Recruiting Is More Than Just Okey-Dokey

 

[bags27]

great article, Rocky: thanks!

"When you have been doing this for so long," Auriemma said, "you hope you never get to the point where you go, 'OK, great, call my people and they'll call your people.' You hope you never get that nonchalant about it. Believe me I wasn't."

When Auriemma put down the phone in his car, he let a celebratory "Whew!"

If it is going to mean everything to a recruit it better mean just as much to him.

"She even had a Husky dog at [her formal announcement at Central Arkansas Christian School in North Little Rock Friday]. She got her classmates to wear UConn stuff. This kid is pretty sharp and everybody loves her. She's a fun kid to be around."

 

[mbr33ct]

Auriemma joked, or at least I think he's joking, "'Coach, why am I flying into Westchester Airport?' I'm driving through Yale and telling them it's UConn."

Now, that's funny right there, the good ole days. Glad Yale was available to drive through.

 

[Huskee11]

Geno`s recent Q&A session with reporters is the basis for the article and was posted by HoopsFan21 in the thread entitled "KLS and Lexi, Stanford Pre-Game". It is long, almost a half hour, but worth watching.

Like how Geno listens to the questions and never gives a pat, canned, guarded answer. Candid, honest, revealing, often funny. Quite a contrast to most sports interviews.

You can tell he is really, really excited that Chrystin is coming here.

His comments about recruiting generally, and recruiting in Arkansas in particular - great stuff.

 

[cbraarj]

My Father always would say Okey Dokey and I went through stages with it growing up! Pre-teen I thought it was funny, teenage years I was like really Dad, and young adult it was just my Father being Dad! I love Miss Williams Mid-West accent and the laid back funny kid she seems to be! Other schools might have better classes this year but Uconn has The NO. 1 recruit who is the classiest of them all!

 

[j66kicker]

My Father always would say Okey Dokey and I went through stages with it growing up! Pre-teen I thought it was funny, teenage years I was like really Dad, and young adult it was just my Father being Dad! I love Miss Williams Mid-West accent and the laid back funny kid she seems to be! Other schools might have better classes this year but Uconn has The NO. 1 recruit who is the classiest of them all!

I was born & raised in Oklahoma, and said Okie Dokey all the time - "Okie Doke" for short. My cousin from Kansas (he also moved away from that part of the country decades ago) is a well-educated attorney and still says Okie Doke.

 

[Alydar]

 

[SVCBeercats]

Geno at his east coast elitist best!

 

[cbraarj]

I was born & raised in Oklahoma, and said Okie Dokey all the time - "Okie Doke" for short. My cousin from Kansas (he also moved away from that part of the country decades ago) is a well-educated attorney and still says Okie Doke.

My dad said until he died and that was the first time I heard it since 2003! He also was fluent in french and said it. I was never any good speaking french but I understood it well!

 

[McHuskyFan]

Maybe cuz she was from the midwest, but my mom said it all the time ... and so i do, too. Even when texting and it's easier to just type OK, I'll still type out "okey dokey". Yeah, I'm a rebel like that

 

[RockyMTblue2]

I was born & raised in Oklahoma, and said Okie Dokey all the time - "Okie Doke" for short. My cousin from Kansas (he also moved away from that part of the country decades ago) is a well-educated attorney and still says Okie Doke.

I'll use it for emphasis and when I feel sarcastic is in order. In upstate NY in the 50s everybody used it. We also used a cousin: hunky-dory, as in everything is.... Also an excellent sarcasm indicator: Everything is just hunky-dory.

 

[BroadwayVa]

My Father always would say Okey Dokey and I went through stages with it growing up! Pre-teen I thought it was funny, teenage years I was like really Dad, and young adult it was just my Father being Dad! I love Miss Williams Mid-West accent and the laid back funny kid she seems to be! Other schools might have better classes this year but Uconn has The NO. 1 recruit who is the classiest of them all!

Okie Dokie--I got it . Was common in Central and northern Ct. No so much on the Southern NY Suburbs of Ct.
In the not so long ago past CT was RURAL with tiny towns and loads of farm country. In 1960 Ct had more forested and than in 1776---Okie Dokie? Is that good with you?
There isn't anything I don't like about Ms Williams, Geno will find out Arkansas produces intelligent, talented, nice and beautiful women---one of their best product--be sides aluminum

 

[BroadwayVa]

I was born & raised in Oklahoma, and said Okie Dokey all the time - "Okie Doke" for short. My cousin from Kansas (he also moved away from that part of the country decades ago) is a well-educated attorney and still says Okie Doke.

I knew there was something I liked about you--Okie Dokie?

 

[cbraarj]

Okie Dokie--I got it . Was common in Central and northern Ct. No so much on the Southern NY Suburbs of Ct.
In the not so long ago past CT was RURAL with tiny towns and loads of farm country. In 1960 Ct had more forested and than in 1776---Okie Dokie? Is that good with you?
There isn't anything I don't like about Ms Williams, Geno will find out Arkansas produces intelligent, talented, nice and beautiful women---one of their best product--be sides aluminum

Born and bred in Bristol Ct. BV!

 

[cbraarj]

Just so you guys get it! I thought it was cool that she used it! Like I said my dad was the only one I heard that from before Miss Williams!

 

[BroadwayVa]

Born and bred in Bristol Ct. BV!

I know! Next to the orange and black kangaroo's Tville.
But you lived in Okla. I lived there in Yukon (UConn), Okla.
Nice people --Snyder groceries and Sherri Coale. Reno St and Reno town a remount German/Italian Pow's.

 

[BroadwayVa]

Born and bred in Bristol Ct. BV!

OOpsl--kicker is OK

 

[BroadwayVa]

Born and bred in Bristol Ct. BV!

Goes back about 2 years--we discussed Schools, religion, and ND