Stanford Coach Said Taurasi Wasn't Stanford Material After Not Passing Test | Bill Walton & Sue Bird
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Worked out fairly well at UConn. 3 National Championships in a row. Thanks Tara.
Burn!
who's Tara?
@@WilloPR Stanford wbb coach
6'11 Bill Walton at UCLA (1970-1974) and always utters "PAC 12 is conference of champions !"
A lot of schools has missed out on athletes because of those damn test. Those tests doesn't define human beings. It's a matter of can you do the work.
Tests?
Well you have to if you want to get into there, UConn just has lower academic standards
DT obviously had greatness in her. Would it have come to full flower under another coach? It would be interesting to hear Diana’s and Geno seriously discuss this
To me he meant scholastically she was not ready for Stanford and there’s nothing wrong with that if she was not scholastically ready for Stanford. To get into Stanford I believe you have to pass certain tests. And those tails have nothing to do with Athletes ability. I think that’s what they meant and I can understand that very easily. It does not mean that a person cannot play Play a sport very well it just means a girl scholastically is not ready for Stanford and I believe most people are not ready for Stanford regardless of how great an athlete they are. They that is two different things
Stanford recruiting (for all sports) starts at the Admissions Office. No favors, no exceptions. Recruits MUST meet the same admission standards as any other applicant. This means the pool of high school players from which Stanford can recruit is about 5-10% of what most other colleges can go after. It's a huge handicap for the likes of VanDerveer, Shaw and Stanford Coaches. It means in most years they are unable to recruit the point guard, or linebacker they need because there are no high school players who meet the academic requirements and desired skill level. In the case of Taurasi, clearly it worked out for her, but it doesn't mean Stanford wasn't interested in her as a player, just that the Admissions Office said "no".
I assure you, from may experience with Stanford, that Stanford's pool of recruits is deeper than you suggest. Put it at over 20% of all recruits, at least in women's basketball. And it is not a handicap to Stanford, but an asset; the school's exclusivity--and overall acceptance rate of under one-on-25--explains why it has become, in the last decade, the Number One Dream School for college applicants, and particularly female athletes. Just look at the golf, volleyball, tennis, swimming, and basketball teams.
Wow! That’s like calling Jordan or Bird or Magic and saying no thanks. But Tara could see she was a tough cookie and a little wild etc Geno said thanks!
Well Jordan did get rejected making the basketball team in highschool. Tom Brady got passed up 6 whole Rounds in the draft. He was the 199th player to be picked in the 7Th ROUND DRAFT. Those are the Two best players to olay there sports. So when my sons, niece's , & nephews ever get rejected or feel defeated I remind them why not to ever give up use it as motivation.
@@swelly84 but to say you are not Stanford material is pretty awful. Arrogant and mean
@@gturcott1 😂 I guess so .
@@swelly84 and UConn won 3 titles with her
All schools have standards for admissions, and these should be the same for student athletes and regular students. If you can't pass their admissions requirements, then you shouldn't get a pass because you're an athlete.
No everyone can be rocket science. She is now one of the highest paid WNBA players in the league. Do you think she cares that Stanford didnt want her. HaHa
Students with special skills bypass the normal admissions process ALL THE TIME, whether those skills are academic, artistic, or athletic. Even the service academies don't make everyone go through the normal process.
Who gives a F
Oh yes Starbird! She was awesome
Walton won't let anybody else talk. Can't stand him!
fr he just talked so much.
Shut up Bill and go to France.
If I knew Walton was going to be a guest analyst on this game, I would have tuned in to watch this Bird/Taurasi alternate telecast. I'll have to catch this on the replay and hopefully, Walton will be a guest on the final between UConn and South Carolina.
He did interrupt Diana after he asked for her response. Maybe his headphones weren’t working? Maybe not.
Once he learned to talk without stuttering, he never stopped.
Didn’t Walton go to UCLA? Is he talking about graduate school?
Law school. Big Red went during his playing days
Thanks. I guess he was Stanford material. But don’t cry for Diana. She was damn lucky having Geno- and vice versa.
Diana is the greatest women's basketball player of all time -- at least that I've ever seen. It sounds like Stanford's loss was UConn's gain.
Diana is great but Cheryl Miller is the GOAT
@@xavierb5120 You're 100% right...I thought that even as I was writing it. Any woman who never lost to her brother in the back yard -- and her brother's a 5-time NBA All Star, and was up there with Ray Allen as the greatest shooter ever before Steph Curry came along -- is the real deal, and does not deserve to be forgotten. Good one, Xavier!
Cheryl Miller, Maya and Sheryl Swoopes could ALL make a case
Stanford wanted her she probably didn’t have a high enough SAT.... the fact she said pass the test. It’s not a pass or fail test. It just shows what type of school students can apply to and get accepted since applying to schools cost money for us regular people who went to Stanford.
People in this comment section with their political jibberish, go walk your dog.
She’s arguably the greatest college and WNBA player ever. Not Stanford material?
She didn’t do well enough on some test. Nothing to do with basketball.
Forgot about Kate Starbird, the name alone is cool af.
Nah that name sounds arrogant af!!💩🚽
@@Robertjames525 yeah your right they're arrogant pieces of sh*t, who needs it.
I think she did alright. ............
I thought Bill Walton went to UCLA...
She meant academically...
Let’s face it .Most big time programs just have Athletes there to play their sport and have nothing to do withAcademics at the school. Let’s face the truth it’s minor league to go major league
Stanford had an academic standard that Diana didn't meet. It's that simple
They get anyone in they want
@Richmond Apore No no. Not at Stanford. They still have very high levels of academic achievement that have to be met and they have to have specific grade scores to be eligible for that athletic scholarship. There’s even a joke (my great grandma went there from 1923-27 on a Grant and based on several awards she received, she was a great singer and was in the choir, as was her two twin daughters, my grandma and grand aunt), the joke goes that even the “jocks” are geniuses.
That move probably cost Stanford 2 national championships
@Richmond Apore and they didn't want to bring in someone who didn't meet their standards. She said herself that she failed a test and they told her to get lost. She wasn't Stanford material. It's that simple
Academic Standard? It was a Tara blunder plain and simple. The move put Stanford in UConn's rearview mirror ever since.
She probably wasn't Woke enough either
What?
Maybe she wasn’t
Taurasi won’t be the Diana that she is today. God chose you path, I still remember the game where Taurasi was raining threes against Duke.
Did God choose the path of every child suffering in cancer hospitals? Quite a god.
@@gheller2261 Yes bad things happen to good people. I will never question what GOD does because he is GOD. Get to know GOD for yourself. IF you know someone how is suffering from Cancer I pray for their healing and your understanding. Cancer has taken many of my relatives before their time. And we all suffer some more than others. God made Job suffer as well he had everything. He didn't turn against him. Read it great story of faith.
@@acourtney365 I realize that you are like most people - you were taught from birth to believe in a god (and, I assume that for you it is the god as depicted in the New Testament). You need to believe in fictional stories because we are taught to live in fear. It gives you comfort and nothing anyone says will cause you to think more deeply about faith and its complete lack of reason ("I will never question" is a phrase no thinking person would ever say). Keep doing what you do if it gives you comfort and allows you to ignore facets of reality, that's fine. But don't you dare try to legislate or support the legislation of your beliefs as a means to control the lives of other people. And that's what religion and believing in fairy tales does more than anything else. Right this second, thousands of women are being sex trafficked around the world. Millions in Ukraine are having their lives upended, thousands dying. There's something in your book of stories that helps them? Did god choose their path? Come now, use your head.
Smash both
Lol. Both are way out of your pay grade and both are married to ladies. Doubt they’d be interested in you and I. I don’t know how this is attractive to some straight white guts. When will you learn that’s not really attractive to think it’s hot to sleep with a gay girl. That’s disgusting. Maybe that’s just because I have a female cousin who I’m close to and who is gay, maybe it’s just that I know that I’ll never have a chance. Either way, show some respect.
Not Stanford material, Tara Vanderveer?? Oh, for shame. 😂😂🤣🤣 UConn surely loved Taurasi.
Taurasi Failed the “Test” because she was touching her teammates in the Showers a little too much. Two of the Greatest UConn’s female basketball lesbians on the broadcast.
😴😴😴 Whine Diana. Are we supposed to care about any of this?
You care so little that you commented?
She's successful, won championships, broke NCAA records and she's rich. She's more recognizable than the Stanford athletes she named. It's not like UCONN isn't a grest school.
@@misterman2830 Lol really all these naysayers when they’ve both accomplished so much more than most of us would even have a chance at.
Considering Stanford lost out on DIANA TAURASI which led to 3 National Championships for UConn? Yeah we should
Did anyone make you click on this video? Assuming you read the title, you put yourself in it so.....
I'm a Huskies fan to the bone marrow, but if coach Stanley actually protested during the national anthem, which I wasn't aware of, she has my respect. If I were a black woman in this country, instead of a 78-year-old white male, I'd be protesting too. Good for her.
You can still protest.
Wtf lol
Who is coach Stanley?