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UConn's dominance

Post by LS71 » Mon Mar 28, 2016 9:43 am

I couldn't believe my ears when I heard the 'controversey' surrounding UConn's dominance in women's hoop. :shock:

Yeah...Geno should 'dumb it down' because of the failure of competing schools. :roll:

Tell that to John Wooden, Red Auerbach, etc... They're there cuz they earned it. The whiners need to dry their tears and work harder to compete.

Love to see UMass' next coach take up the challenge and dare to be great!
Laken Litman wrote:If there were no UConn, would all the best players go to another program? Notre Dame? Baylor? South Carolina? That’s not how anyone should be thinking, says 2014 WNBA No. 1 draft pick Chiney Ogwumike, whose Stanford team beat UConn in her freshman year to end a 90-game winning streak — the record in college basketball, two games more than John Wooden’s UCLA teams from 1971 to 1974.

“UConn has to be there,” Ogwumike said. “People need to stop complaining about UConn’s dominance, because it’s not them, it’s us. It’s the rest of the field that has to rise up. We do have some great teams that fly under the radar and, because of (UConn’s) dominance, we can’t talk about them as much. But I think UConn basketball belongs in history for every reason they’ve earned it.

“Anybody who hates on UConn isn’t being realistic to their work ethic. But I do think players and teams need to look at them and use that as motivation. We can’t be settling for days off. We have to fight to get to where they are.”
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Re: UConn's dominance

Post by InnervisionsUMASS » Mon Mar 28, 2016 10:15 am

I hate UConn with a passion, but Geno should have never responded to Shank. Don't stoop to his level.
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Re: UConn's dominance

Post by LS71 » Mon Mar 28, 2016 11:55 am

I'm not a UConn fan either but it's I respect Geno and what he's accomplished.

Before the men ever won a championship there, the saying was:

UConn...where men are men, and women are champions. :lol:

I understand that he and mumbles weren't friends.
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Re: UConn's dominance

Post by MikeUMA » Mon Mar 28, 2016 12:24 pm

InnervisionsUMASS wrote:I hate UConn with a passion, but Geno should have never responded to Shank. Don't stoop to his level.
Maybe so, but at least he bashed him pretty good in his response.
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Re: UConn's dominance

Post by LS71 » Mon Mar 28, 2016 12:37 pm

^ Love it!! :lol: :lol:
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