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Wisconsin Coach To WBB: "Get your butt in the gym!"

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That is a GREAT rant. She's speaking nothing but the truth.

"You can't nap your way to being a great shooter"

"Women's basketball can you hear me? ... We got people throwing the ball over the basket. Nobody wants to watch that. I DONT!"

The sport needs this rant.


I'm tweeting this to Dawn. Maybe she'll show the team.
 
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Preach!!!


And as someone who teaches at the college level, kids today are tethered to their cell phones. I ask my class for 2 hours 3 x per week to leave their phones in their backpacks and out of sight..

Such a simple concept but inevitably have one student each class that can't. I usually get the same excuse "I didn't realize I had it"

Students are on them so much they don't realize that they are looking at it.

When I dismiss class all 25 reach for their phones. I just laugh at them.
 
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JordyG said:
Preach Bobbie preach! And I need an amen from another 500 WBB coaches.
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Amen! Somebody call Tennessee... I just found their new coach! J/K they can keep Holly...
 
Lol... I appreciate the rant... especially from a coach with her record. :eek:
 
ThisJustIn said:
Lol... I appreciate the rant... especially from a coach with her record. :eek:
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She has the mindset... and if there is a will there is a way. I'm sure there is at least one kid out there that heard or saw this and might not be great but would play for this woman because she "gets it".
 
ThisJustIn said:
Lol... I appreciate the rant... especially from a coach with her record. :eek:
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Wisconsin has played a tough schedule in a tough conference. Maybe her record sucks because her players don't spend enough time in the gym.
 
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Great find!
And while we call it a rant, I loved her calmness in delivering it. Not yelling, not calling out anyone in particular, just a calm, passionate statement of 'facts'.
 
And an interesting resume - last stop as an assistant to Tara at Stanford, and as a player on the 1992 championship team and a two year team captain.
 
WOW!!!.....WCBB is very difficult to watch most games. Even UCONN The other teams are so bad and have zero idea what to do or how to score...The WCBB game's BB IQ is very low and we need more coaches who are not afraid to get in peoples faces including the AD and Presidents....GO Wisc.
 
Terrific and true.

I've said this before but I think it bears repeating- young players (male & female) don't have the fundamentals that previous generations did. That's not entirely their fault, fundamentals have to be taught and reinforced & IMO they aren't, not to the extent they should be.

Her fellow coaches should take her comments to heart. Women's college basketball is fast becoming as unwatchable as the men's game. And don't get me started on the NBA....
 
UcMiami said:
And an interesting resume - last stop as an assistant to Tara at Stanford, and as a player on the 1992 championship team and a two year team captain.
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Next big time program with an opening should have her on speed dial.
 
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Beemer said:
Terrific and true.

I've said this before but I think it bears repeating- young players (male & female) don't have the fundamentals that previous generations did. That's not entirely their fault, fundamentals have to be taught and reinforced & IMO they aren't, not to the extent they should be.

Her fellow coaches should take her comments to heart. Women's college basketball is fast becoming as unwatchable as the men's game. And don't get me started on the NBA....
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Oh man, the Warriors and the Spurs would beg to differ. That is some goooooood basketball that those teams are playing. Overall I find the NBA much more watchable than it was 10 years ago.
 
UcMiami said:
And an interesting resume - last stop as an assistant to Tara at Stanford, and as a player on the 1992 championship team and a two year team captain.
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She's a Stanford graduate? I'm hoping against hope, then, that her terrible grammar is an affect.
 
Who are the two players she refers to at the end? Romeo and Bauman?
 
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SCGamecock said:
Don't make the mistake of associating dialect or vernacular with intelligence.
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I didn't. I'm a retired college professor; I know better, thank you. Grammar, however, is often a reflection of what kind of education one has obtained. Since Stanford is one of the best academic universities in the nation, I was surprised to hear a graduate of that institution show no spoken evidence of having attended such a fine institution. As I said in my original post, I'm hoping it was "affect". That would be a reasonable guess, or she wouldn't be coaching in one of the finest academic institutions in the Big 10. It's not a big deal, however; it was just surprising to hear.
 
SCGamecock said:
Don't make the mistake of associating dialect or vernacular with intelligence.
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Agree. I didn't hear anything that made me think, "She went to Stanford??" Thought she sounded very articulate and intelligent.
 
Gus Mahler said:
Who are the two players she refers to at the end? Romeo and Bauman?
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Nicole Bauman. No idea who the Romeo girl is. Could be a team/fan nickname.

I only know of Nicole Bauman because she shot 8 or 9 threes last year vs. Ohio State and played the entire 40 minutes. It was a crazy game. She actually outplayed Kelsey Mitchell. Bauman was pretty much unstoppable in that game.
 
Romeo is the Nebraska player that hit a bunch of 3's against them. I didn't watch the rant, since y'all summarized it so nice, but I went to the page and there was a video of Romeo.
 
HuskyFan1125 said:
Preach!!!


And as someone who teaches at the college level, kids today are tethered to their cell phones. I ask my class for 2 hours 3 x per week to leave their phones in their backpacks and out of sight..

Such a simple concept but inevitably have one student each class that can't. I usually get the same excuse "I didn't realize I had it"

Students are on them so much they don't realize that they are looking at it.

When I dismiss class all 25 reach for their phones. I just laugh at them.
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My wife and I audited a college class a few years ago. All the others were undergrads. Essentially all of them had one device or another on all the time and we could see they weren't catching up on homework. The prof announced during the first class that that behavior wouldn't be accepted and proceeded to do nothing about it the whole semester. This was a 54 grand a year private university.
 
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