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Post by knightsbridgeaz on Jun 5, 2024 17:47:13 GMT -5
Geno clearly still has "it". I'm sure he will know when it is time to go, but given the success he has been having, as long as he wants to stay, he will.
I think UConn should be in a favored position for a championship in a number of the upcoming years - not that they necessarily will win every year, but I am expecting one and probably more.
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Post by bulkey on Jun 6, 2024 7:30:34 GMT -5
Dan Connolly has a long article today about Geno's contract. I'm pretty certain it's the free email so I'm reproducing mainly the Geno quotations which seem to come from the interview linkster linked above.
Contractually, Geno Auriemma is locked in as UConn women’s basketball’s head coach for the next five years after agreeing to an $18.7 million extension. But that doesn’t mean he’ll definitely coach five more years.
“Somebody can sign a lifetime contract, that doesn't mean they're going to coach to the end of their life,” Auriemma said on Tuesday. “I thought it was a good number. I thought it gave me enough time to do what I need to do.”
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“That doesn't mean I won't stay longer,” the coach added. “For right now, that's what I'm happy with. That's a good number for me right now.”
... “Obviously there’s an end to this but in the meantime, you keep feeling like ‘I want to be around this kid for a couple of years’ and I know that’s going to go away — just not right now,” Auriemma reiterated.
.... “I would like to see what it's like if you can string together three or four years with the way it used to be where there were no injuries,” he said. “You had everybody available that was on your team. I'd like to see what it would be like if we had the opportunity to do that once again.”
With the dramatic changes happening in the world of college athletics over the last few years — namely the introduction of name, image and likeness agreements for athletes, as well as the increase in player movement through the transfer portal — some high-profile coaches have stepped away. ...
There were moments that Auriemma seemed to be on a similar track recently. Yet he’s changed his tune with the new contract extension in hand.
“I think last year maybe changed my mind about things. Like if you'd have told me before last year, I would say, ‘It's getting harder and harder to do this job.’ Which it is, don't get me wrong. In your right mind, you would want no part of this at my age because it's totally opposite, totally foreign to what we grew up doing in this profession. You can't do your job the way you used to,” he explained.
“Everybody says ‘You gotta adapt.’ Well, how do you adapt? You go out and find the most money and buy the most players. That's how you adapt. That's not adapting. That's just giving in to what it is. today. That's great. And I know everybody has to do it, and I'm okay with it.” ...
“It wasn't like, ‘Here's my offer sheet.’ It was ‘Obviously we're going to take care of you. But if that's going to be the first thing you talk to me about, that's a nonstarter,’” he explained. ...
Despite player movement being at an all-time high, Auriemma wants to prove it can still be done the old-fashioned way.
“I think there's a lot of kids out there that really, really want this experience and I want to believe in them,” he said. “I want to trust that there's still a lot of those kids out there that are not looking to play at four schools in four years, that want to commit to something long term. I think they're out there and I'm going to try to find them.”
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“It makes it worthwhile. Makes you feel like you're having an impact,” he said. “The worst thing that happens, you go through a stretch when you feel like ‘I'm not having the impact I used to have,’ and you think it's you and you think it's time to move on. Then things change and all of a sudden… you realize, ‘Yeah, I still have an impact.’”
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Post by semper on Jun 6, 2024 10:34:21 GMT -5
As to the pickerel comment, it is much older than Thoreau. In the Latin Middle Ages, monasteries had fish ponds, as did the homes of the wealthy. To keep the fish from getting sluggish, one or two pickerel would be kept around as they nipped the other fish and stirred them up. So a person who does that became known as the pickerel who kept the others riled and active.
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Post by huskyharper on Jun 6, 2024 13:12:03 GMT -5
That last quote of Geno, re: having an impact. Is there anyone on this board who does not think of the video Nike posted as the left UCONN for the pros? Talk about an impact! Although Aaliyah is not so public, I doubt she felt less impact from him. Or any of his players. It's his legacy.
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Post by grrrrr on Jun 7, 2024 8:24:03 GMT -5
Repeating myself (Hey old age) but any recruit who saw that Nika tape and wouldn't want to play for Geno is not UCONN material anyway.
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Post by justinesguy on Jun 7, 2024 11:08:05 GMT -5
Very interesting article in the courant regarding Chris Dailey. After Genos extension he texted her asking if she’s in or out, I guess she didn’t respond. I always felt they talked about this stuff before and were a package deal.
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Post by bulkey on Jun 7, 2024 11:20:22 GMT -5
Very interesting article in the courant regarding Chris Dailey. After Genos extension he texted her asking if she’s in or out, I guess she didn’t respond. I always felt they talked about this stuff before and were a package deal. could you paste a bit of that here?
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Post by semper on Jun 7, 2024 11:26:20 GMT -5
That's baloney. Of course they talked about it.
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Post by justinesguy on Jun 7, 2024 12:08:47 GMT -5
Very interesting article in the courant regarding Chris Dailey. After Genos extension he texted her asking if she’s in or out, I guess she didn’t respond. I always felt they talked about this stuff before and were a package deal. could you paste a bit of that here? UConn women’s basketball coach Geno Auriemma got a text of congratulations from longtime associate head coach Chris Dailey after his five-year contract extension was announced Tuesday. “Are you in or out?” Auriemma texted back. It goes on to say she didn’t respond and she was on vacation or at her Florida home and maybe she can coach remotely lol. Sorry the article is now blocked I don’t have a subscription. I don’t know why I was able to read it before but I can’t now maybe it’ll let me just read one free one.
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Post by justinesguy on Jun 7, 2024 12:09:28 GMT -5
That's baloney. Of course they talked about it. Probably. I’m Just relaying the article contents and what Geno made public.
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