Geno Auriemma and Breanna Stewart - IN THEIR ON WORDS - Why they go to UConn - Stay to the END!
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This story will be told in their own words. See how great coaches need to be willing to coach a star. See how stars need to be willing to be coached. And what happens when this occurs. Be warned if you hate Geno Auriemma you will likely like him after this video.
Compare this to Ben Simmons development. I think it is striking.
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Geno is incredible UCONN is so lucky to have had his skills and knowledge with developing players. BLEEDBLUE
He and Chris Daly built a program that produces amazing humans who also play great basketball. I can’t count the many NCAAW organizations that their example has inspired.
Its idiots out there that say fire Geno.
Uconn has really made some beyond incredible basketball coaching hires since the 80’s. Every coach (4/4) has won a championship, men and women. That’s remarkable.
I have no connection with UConn, but I met Coach right after he had just won a national championship a few years ago where I was working on the scorer’s table at the game, and he was very gracious to me. Class act.
Nice
I remember this.No one saw her coming until it was too late.She came alive in the NCAA Tournament and the rest is history!
Her Freshman year was incredible......that was the ONE year the REST had a chance and SHE said NO.
Geno has been very influential in shaping players careers, emphasizing physical abilities and their personal makeups. Brianna has told us how appreciative she is of Geno's desire to make her fulfill her dreams. She is, without a doubt, one of the greatest women players (college and the WNBA) of all time. Playing for the Ct Huskies is an experience reserved for only a few and also a place they can can always come back to if they feel the need to to or, if they want to share their experiences with the current team players. Btw, suggesting she can be compared to Ben Simmons is well, I rather not say. All young people have to go through a growing up stage. On the court? One has limited abilities and the other is the full package.
Watch the video and you will understand. He had a path to choose. Instead of going to coach that would help fullfil potential he went where they kiss his butt and not challenge him.
@@back2sports988 I had watched it before I commented. I did recognize the challenges it is for them to 'do the right things' but where I feel they are miles apart is Ben never learned how to shoot away from the basket whereas Brenna became a sharp shooter. You can't stop her and he shy's away from the ball. (Apples and oranges.)
not one of the greatest but The Greatest
@@RobertDeMartin GENO IS OVERRATED
A year has passed since I recorded this comment. I understand where you are coming from but I disagree with the way you put it. Rather than say he is overrated I look at it this way. He's had great success with his approach over the years and his record backs that up. But times have changed. There is a lot of parity in women's basketball right now (at all levels!) and there are no pushovers anymore. Geno is learning to recruit differently, and adapt his game to meet the challenges of playing other teams who have players who 'can do it all'. I think these last couple of years have really frustrated him. He probably thought if his team didn't get hit with all the injuries, everything would have remained on course. Maybe so. But now he is understanding his bench is vitally important ( more than ever before) and you'll see during this season the way he plays his freshmen. I believe they will meet the challenge (with his guidance) and it will be interesting to see what his team will be like in nearing March. So, lets give him a pass right now. Remember me and let's exchange some thoughts around Tournament time. Okay? @@lecowardjames
Stewie being a wnba pro since the end of her freshman year made it so easy on Geno and company. Makes you wonder why they haven’t won since she left.. UConn hasn’t had an out of this world talent like her since she left. One could argue she has always had a great supporting cast but it’s clear that she was always the separator and the one who always rose above to get the win. Never cares about her stats or anything just wanted the win. so rare to find now!
The had Paige who was the number 1 prospect but she and other have had some series injuries
Have not seen that smile since 2017...
He tells an excellent story of speaking to Rebecca Lobos mother who was a high school guidance counselor and said none of my girls are going to UCONN, my daughter is a straight A student and why should I send here there? Geno said you guys come for a visit and let us show you around then we’ll see. He said they spent the next hour chatting and had a lot in common due to being Italian. remember what they talked about after that but they chatted for about an hour and we’re both Italian so we had al
Geno gets the best players to attend UCONN because they know he’s at the helm of the best basketball program in the country.
Geno is the GOAT
"It's my way, or the highway!" Gino is the Goat.
Geno is special -- and so are a lot of the players he coached. If I could live my life over again, I'd get a basketball scholarship to UConn, or I'd die trying. I'd have to live at a different time though, because Geno was only 11 when I started College. I envy every girl who ever played for him.
Geno likes little boys
It's funny, I didn't know these players names, until Clark showed up.
I did not follow the team back then so I am missing a lot of context seeing it now. From a viewer’s perspective you should fill that in. But I got the message that Geno gets in their heads because they need it. It seems for some of these girls it may be the first time in their lives. This is why athletics are so great. Most students going through regular academics at UCONN don’t get anything like that. Stewie will have that swagger athletes get for the rest of their lives.
She was SO GOOD but that Baylor loss hurt....she tried so hard.....nothing fell.....she tumbled.....never said anything bad or mouthed off in public.....Geno was just helping a freshman get better but Stewie did the rest....was possessed in the tourney....Baylor was the better team but as Geno said once about the other GOAT...."We had Stewie and they didn't."
I always think of a player who transferred out after a semester because she couldn't take Auriemma critiquing her play. Her mother had coached her her whole life and she'd never been told anything other than "You're the greatest, you're wonderful, you deserve everything." Hearing Auriemma tell her "You're good enough to be here but you're dead last on the bench" shook her to the point that she left. And the fact that he didn't fight to keep her said a lot -- he knew that wasn't fixable. You're either willing to listen and improve, or you're gone.
@TheDisruptiveOne. His teams have played in the women's Final Four every year since 2007.
His recruiting pitch these days is "How old are you, 17? Well the last time we weren't in the Final Four you were 3". Geno is the goat
Tennessee!!!
A lot of discussion about Caitlin Clark and rightly so. Yes it was disappointing that she finished her college career without a championship and I wish her well as she turns pro. And she said that her college career should not be judged solely on not having a championship. But there was some discussion about her being the GOAT. As amazing as her accomplishments were, there is only one GOAT in women’s college basketball. And that is BreannaStewart.
Compare Breanna Stewart development path to Ben Simmons development. I think it is striking. kzhead.info/sun/gdmSj6ivmoGvn40/bejne.html
she was a kid, then grew up
That was her sister, right?
After I thought about it a bit I came to the conclusion of how many great coaches are truly likeable? Geno,Kim Mulkey,Pat Summit,Bob Knight,Coach K.,Jim Boehiem,etc. Same with football. They need to be assholes in order to keep your attention and get you to do things you don't want to do that will make you better. There is an art to it.
You may not like him at all but he can coach period and I’m a Carolina fan but I’m Not stupid
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C'mon, man! There is nothing that you or anyone else can say that will convince me to like Auriemma.
I like your videos back to sports. I hate Uconn.. very much
Good for me :) , Bad for UConn. thanks
I can't stand UConn, but Geno is an excellent coach. I still haven't forgiven Stewie for turning her back on hometown Syracuse to go join the stacked team for the "easy road" to championships. She could have brought a women's championship to the Orange, instead of beating them in the championship game.
Or - she went to a school where the coaching staff would give her the abilities she needed and make her a better and more well-rounded player and be able to do what she wanted to DO FOR A LIVING when she graduated her just four years of school. Look at the LIFETIME success former UConn players have after they leave school. I don't hear about too many Syracuse players after they leave. Ah, but that little trophy is so important. * eyeroll * I'm sure she still had pride in her hometown, but she did what was best for her to live her life. Edit: And - UConn makes it look easy, but it's NOT easy. They work hard to get where they are every year.
@@mythra7174 I agree that it's not easy, which is why I used the quotes. But you have to admit that going to a team stacked with a roster full of 4- and 5-stars makes the road to a championship more likely (on the women's side, anyway... there is definitely more parity on the men's side). And you eyeroll, why? Because I'd like to see my team win a championship, instead of the same half-dozen teams winning year after year? Geno is not the only coach who can develop talent. But implying that her best option at making the WNBA is at UConn is a self-fulfilling prophecy. If the top talent always goes to UConn, then of course there will be more UConn players in the WNBA. With Stewie's talent, she could have gone to a D3 school and still wound up drafted. Syracuse made the finals without her, but I would have preferred that they won the whole thing with her. I still root for her, but that doesn't mean I have to be happy about her not going to Syracuse.
@@markp7262 The eyeroll wasn't for your wanting the team you root for to win a championship, everyone wants that. And sure, while a kid is AT college, of course they all want to win that championship. The eyeroll was for your saying she "turned her back on her hometown" and saying you couldn't forgive some college-bound kid for going to where she felt was a right fit for HER and HER LIFE. Because YOU want your team to have the championship. You could have just said you wished she'd gone to Syracuse, not that she turned her back on her hometown or you couldn't forgive her for it when she's a kid making life decisions for herself. That's just utterly ridiculous. (I know I was redundant there).
@@mythra7174 It was hyperbole. As I pointed out in my last post, I still root for her (though admittedly not while she was at UConn). I just would have preferred she make the choice to stay home and win there. She could have gotten the same education, and a lot of the same basketball help. Because as I also pointed out, Geno does not have a monopoly on coaching. You suggested that Syracuse can't prepare players for the WNBA, and so I'll refer back to the self-fulfilling prophecy. If Syracuse got five star recruits by the truckload, they'd be able to send them to the pros as well. As it is, they've had lower ranked players be successful later on. Just because they're not the face of the WNBA, doesn't mean that they haven't been there. But there are a very limited number of roster slots, and so the turnover is a real thing if you're not the elite of the elite. I'm sure there are plenty of schools who haven't sent anybody. But one of the reasons that women's basketball is not as popular (outside certain circles) is the ongoing lack of parity. Nobody (outside of Storrs, South Bend, Columbia, and Knoxville) wants to see the same teams win year after year. If the talent keeps focusing in the same places under the belief that they can only make it to the pros if they go to a top 5 school, there eventually won't be any other schools left to play. Sure, there are outliers when a top prospect picks a different school. Yes, other schools will occasionally put together a competitive season or three. But it eventually reverts back to the "norm" of the same schools dominating. At that point it ceases to be fun for anyone else.
The image for this video look like Make-A-Wish Foundation
the thumb nail?
@@back2sports988 that’s the one. Thumbnail is just one word though, right?
isn't nothing in this world would make a man from Tennessee who knows how Geno cheated with the help of ESPN would ever like him. Pat knew what he was up to and cut off all ties. He is a jerk in my book.
Seems like Pat and Geno got over it.
I think Geno had a thing for Katie Lou
Who didn't?
although Breanna won geno 4 championships, geno never liked Breanna. to this day geno vilifies & castigates Breanna every chance he gets saying he is joking, but in reality, is displaying his true feelings toward her for something Breanna failed to do when she reached the UCONN campus.
Enjoy the ship from your couch Geno.
I would hope Geno would realize the damage Uconn did to viewership for women's basketball. Check the ratings. No one wants to see him win. Check this year's ratings... Geno needs to retire.
Geno, you need to start losing as you are hurting the ratings? Geno has done ok. I think UConn and Tn has been pretty good for women's college basketball
@@back2sports988 GENO IS OVERRATED..............
Finding something to like about Geno is like trying to find a needle in haystack.
I don't know about that. his ex players seems to like and respect him which I think says a lot.
Really. Current team seems to like him. Your statement not looking so brilliant right now
I will never like Uconn. I hate geno
watch the one where he almost took UCLA mens job. Maybe that will change your mind. Maybe not.
Doubt he cares like wtf are you?
Haters gonna hate.
Geno is full of it
Maybe - but he wins and his players seem to respect him after they have played for him.
At least he isn't stupid.
Your right he’s full of it… Championship’s and a list of players in the WNBA, COACHING and Ring’s for all of his finger’s.
@@Carlospjr his time has past. What has he done lately? He coasts off his recruiting now.
Hey Disruptive: Who’s the next target on your hit list, d-bag?