| View previous topic :: View next topic |
| Author |
Message |
Carol Anne
Joined: 09 Apr 2005
Posts: 1739
Location: Seattle
Back to top |
 Posted: 08/07/12 4:41 pm ::: Geno opens mouth, brain falls out |
Reply  |
|
Coach Keeps Talking; Team Keeps Winning
LONDON The United States womens basketball team battered another overmatched opponent Tuesday, and afterward Geno Auriemma talked the way only Geno Auriemma can.
He described his coaching style in these Olympics as more British, and by that he meant calmer, more understated. He called the T-shirt someone left in his room recently, the one with the Road to Respect slogan, kind of dumb.
After Auriemmas team conquered Canada in the quarterfinals, 91-48, one night after the Americans won a womens soccer classic from Canada, someone asked about expectations. It was, after all, the 20th anniversary of the last time the United States played for any Olympic medal other than a gold one. That was four golds ago.
Auriemma mentioned the lack of news media coverage and dismissed the notion just as quickly. His answer devolved from there. His team, Auriemma said, contained no feminists. They were not running around and burning bras and trying to make the world believe in them. Auriemma then said he would burn his own bra because it no longer fit. ...
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/08/sports/olympics/us-womens-basketball-team-reaches-olympic-semifinals.html?smid=pl-share
What the hell? 
|
|
Genero36
Joined: 24 Apr 2005
Posts: 11188
Back to top |
| Posted: 08/07/12 4:58 pm ::: |
Reply |
|
| What comes out of his mouth doesn't deserve any attention. There shouldn't be any mystery as to why he rubbed Pat Summitt the wrong way.
|
|
luvDhoops
Joined: 24 Jun 2005
Posts: 8229
Back to top |
|
Genero36
Joined: 24 Apr 2005
Posts: 11188
Back to top |
|
bballfan2005
Joined: 22 Aug 2005
Posts: 25315
Location: Somewhere here and there
Back to top |
| Posted: 08/07/12 5:33 pm ::: |
Reply |
|
You know, Geno gets more irritating as the years go by. At first, his little "woe is me" act was cute. Now, it's just annoying.
We get it, Geno. Women's basketball isn't popular. It's never going to dominate headlines. Your accompishments aren't celebrated nearly enough--or nearly as much as you'd like. You'll never be Coach K. You'll never be Coach K. You'll never be Coach K! YOU'LL NEVER BE COACH K!
YOU'LL NEVER BE COACH K!
_________________
Avatar: The King has his ring!
Mathies to LA 2013
|
|
Martini Man
Joined: 31 Aug 2011
Posts: 4399
Location: Canada
Back to top |
| Posted: 08/07/12 6:00 pm ::: |
Reply |
|
I'm trying to figure out why anyone even cares about what he says. I just enjoy watching his teams being the best teams in the history of wcbb and just enjoy watching his coaching, which is barely arguably the best wcbb coach there ever was.
What he says is of no concern to me. What concerns me is watching his teams win and break records and make people everywhere notice women's basketball.
_________________
Cheers Mate!!
|
|
myrtle
Joined: 02 May 2008
Posts: 32335
Back to top |
| Posted: 08/07/12 7:00 pm ::: |
Reply |
|
| I don't have a problem with him talking. I like it when people say what they think instead of always being PC even if it doesn't make sense. Makes it much more interesting. I love the pic at the top of the article though, with him lecturing at DT and her totally ignoring him. And look at Bruno's eyes in the background. It's the best thing about the article really!
|
|
scullyfu
Joined: 01 Jan 2006
Posts: 8859
Location: Niagara Falls
Back to top |
|
norwester
Joined: 14 Jun 2006
Posts: 6367
Location: Seattle
Back to top |
| Posted: 08/07/12 8:08 pm ::: |
Reply |
|
90% of the time Geno makes me laugh or at least entertains me with his BS. The other small percentage of the time I just roll my eyes.
This quote in the article amused me more:
| Quote: |
| We know weve got great players, he said. We know weve got defending world champions on our team. I dont know that Croatia got the memo. We need to do a better job of sending out e-mails to the teams were playing, saying, by the way, you know, everybody expects you to get blown out. |
_________________
Don't you know the plural of "anecdote" is "data"?
|
|
caune
Joined: 18 Nov 2004
Posts: 17919
Location: Valley of the Bun
Back to top |
|
norwester
Joined: 14 Jun 2006
Posts: 6367
Location: Seattle
Back to top |
| Posted: 08/07/12 8:13 pm ::: |
Reply |
|
I also think he's happy where he's at. He doesn't want/need to be Coach K. Seems like a weird sentiment to scream at him about.
Here's another telling quote, which seems to match many attitudes around here (or all since it really illustrates both sides of the like/hate Geno spectrum):
| Quote: |
| Auriemma said he never expected to coach the national team, not with his history of outlandish statements and bridges burned. |
Personally, I think it's cool that he's getting to live his own American dream.
_________________
Don't you know the plural of "anecdote" is "data"?
|
|
Admiral_Needa
Joined: 23 Sep 2004
Posts: 10479
Location: Tiburon, CA
Back to top |
| Posted: 08/07/12 9:01 pm ::: Re: Geno opens mouth, brain falls out |
Reply |
|
Good for Geno. Glad he said it. It's like beating a dead horse.
_________________
2002 WNBA Virtual GM Overall Winner
2006 WNBA Triple Threat Overall Winner
2007 NBA ESPN Fast Break Overall Winner
|
|
bballfan2005
Joined: 22 Aug 2005
Posts: 25315
Location: Somewhere here and there
Back to top |
|
cthskzfn
Joined: 21 Nov 2004
Posts: 12851
Location: In a world where a PSYCHOpath like Trump isn't potus.
Back to top |
| Posted: 08/07/12 9:42 pm ::: |
Reply |
|
having 4 NCs is nice, but geno will likely have 9 when he retires.
geno is entertaining.
he talks alot of bs and alot of incredibly cogent stuff.
i'm glad he's at uconn, and there is no coach out there i'd rather have.
_________________
Silly, stupid white people might be waking up.
|
|
mercfan3
Joined: 23 Nov 2004
Posts: 19759
Back to top |
| Posted: 08/07/12 9:57 pm ::: |
Reply |
|
I <3 Geno.
If he wanted to be a men's coach and get that attention he would have left and done so.
But I'm glad he hasn't. Women's basketball needs him.
_________________
âAnyone point out that a Donald Trump anagram is âLord Dampnutââ- Colin Mochrie
|
|
luvDhoops
Joined: 24 Jun 2005
Posts: 8229
Back to top |
|
mercfan3
Joined: 23 Nov 2004
Posts: 19759
Back to top |
|
Admiral_Needa
Joined: 23 Sep 2004
Posts: 10479
Location: Tiburon, CA
Back to top |
| Posted: 08/07/12 10:55 pm ::: |
Reply |
|
| norwester wrote: |
I also think he's happy where he's at. He doesn't want/need to be Coach K. Seems like a weird sentiment to scream at him about.
Here's another telling quote, which seems to match many attitudes around here (or all since it really illustrates both sides of the like/hate Geno spectrum):
| Quote: |
| Auriemma said he never expected to coach the national team, not with his history of outlandish statements and bridges burned. |
Personally, I think it's cool that he's getting to live his own American dream. |
X_______X
_________________
2002 WNBA Virtual GM Overall Winner
2006 WNBA Triple Threat Overall Winner
2007 NBA ESPN Fast Break Overall Winner
|
|
readyAIMfire53
Joined: 20 Nov 2004
Posts: 7370
Location: Durham, NC
Back to top |
| Posted: 08/07/12 11:28 pm ::: |
Reply |
|
[quote="mercfan3
I think it legitimately bothers him that Taurasi, Bird, and even Parker  don't get recognized the way he thinks they should. And he's really one of the better people to say something, because usually anything he says gets some press and he's not a woman so it doesn't come off as "feminist bitching.."[/quote]
This is good. I agree that it's always about the players for him. For instance, he shoots his mouth off before big games and deflects attention/pressure away from his players and they are able to make the big plays most of the time, even when they don't have the most talent on the floor. I completely agree that he would do anything to have these players get the recognition he feels they deserve.
I know I've been among those questioning the inclusion of Swin/Asjha on this team, which I believe is legitimate to question. But what I do not question is his brilliant coaching and ability to push the right buttons to get the max from his players.
While deep down and in private he may have some envy for the notoriety that Coach K has. But I think that whatever he says in public, it's to increase the respect for the players. I find him to be entertaining most of the time, much like Diana. They both have a knack for the timely quip, such as when Diana was asked what was different when she broke her drought and hit a bunch of shots, she said "the shots went in - that's the difference. I guess it was watching the archers hit the bulls eye. I just kept shooting."
_________________
Follow your passion and your life will be true down to your core.
~rAf
|
|
Nerd2
Joined: 06 Jun 2010
Posts: 7659
Back to top |
| Posted: 08/08/12 5:20 am ::: |
Reply |
|
| norwester wrote: |
I also think he's happy where he's at. He doesn't want/need to be Coach K. Seems like a weird sentiment to scream at him about.
|
I don't. There was one interview done where he seemed to be hinting that if North Carolina or Duke would come calling he'd be interested. In multiple interviews he seems to come off as incredibly insecure. Sherri Coale even made mention of it once. I would agree that he wants to be Coach K. in a program with history (so recruits flock to it).
|
|
Queenie
Joined: 18 Nov 2004
Posts: 18029
Location: Queens
Back to top |
| Posted: 08/08/12 7:36 am ::: |
Reply |
|
| Love is too much of a stretch, but I appreciate Geno. He's a fantastic character, and I mean that in the literary sense. I've long felt that he and Bill Laimbeer leaped straight from the pages of a sports novel. (And that C.Viv is also an excellent character, albeit one written by an author who does like to pile on the angst.)
_________________
Ardent believer in the separation of church and stadium.
|
|
norwester
Joined: 14 Jun 2006
Posts: 6367
Location: Seattle
Back to top |
| Posted: 08/08/12 8:51 am ::: |
Reply |
|
| Nerd2 wrote: |
| norwester wrote: |
I also think he's happy where he's at. He doesn't want/need to be Coach K. Seems like a weird sentiment to scream at him about.
|
I don't. There was one interview done where he seemed to be hinting that if North Carolina or Duke would come calling he'd be interested. In multiple interviews he seems to come off as incredibly insecure. Sherri Coale even made mention of it once. I would agree that he wants to be Coach K. in a program with history (so recruits flock to it). |
Maybe. I'll concede to envy, definitely. But I also think he enjoys the role of big fish in the relatively smaller pool of women's basketball.
_________________
Don't you know the plural of "anecdote" is "data"?
|
|
boogiezen
Joined: 29 Nov 2004
Posts: 975
Back to top |
|
mercfan3
Joined: 23 Nov 2004
Posts: 19759
Back to top |
|
kojthiabkuv
Joined: 23 Jun 2006
Posts: 1860
Back to top |
|
|
|
