Geno Auriemma Says Men’s College Basketball Is A Joke, Forgets He Coaches Women’s Basketball
Take that headline in. Soak it all in. The head coach of UCONN’s women’s basketball team just called out the men’s version of the game. Face meet palm. This was my initial reaction when reading this:
When asked about the state of the game by ASAP Sports, he had this to say:
Having said that, I think the game is a joke. It really is. I don’t coach it. I don’t play it, so I don’t understand all the ins and outs of it. But as a spectator, forget that I’m a coach, as a spectator, watching it, it’s a joke. There’s only like ten teams, you know, out of 25, that actually play the kind of game of basketball that you’d like to watch. Every coach will tell you that there’s 90 million reasons for it. And the bottom line is that nobody can score, and they’ll tell you it’s because of great defense, great scouting, a lot of team work, nonsense, nonsense.
I will note that he added that women’s basketball is also behind the times. He’s not wrong, they are like eighty years behind the times. The thing is that how does he know what kind of game that people want to watch? Maybe he, as a fan, does not want to watch the game. What would you rather go watch: a bunch of guys throwing up jumpers and throwing down dunks, in a high paced, close game, or a team that has to make three bounce passes before they take a lay-up or wide open mid-range jumper? That is a boring sport that no one wants to watch. Seriously, look at this:
The real issue here is that Geno coaches for a sport that is the laughing stock of the entire sporting world. That’s not an opinion; that’s a fact. Daniel Tosh even made a joke about it. There are only like two teams who actually compete in women’s college basketball. You’ll see a team like UCONN crush a highly ranked team by 30 points. That’s more of a joke than watching UK crush WVU in the Sweet 16..
[via ASAP Sports]
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Well, if he’s talking about my Memphis Tigers basketball team I 100% agree. We sucked donkey dick this year
11 years ago at 3:18 pmWhy the fuck do you think anyone cares
11 years ago at 3:30 pmYou were awful in James Bond
11 years ago at 3:32 pmHe literally said the “women’s game is even worse” plus he’s right college basketball is an eye sore.
11 years ago at 3:23 pmEven in the pros they drag it out so long that it becomes ridiculous. The only thing you have on the upside of college basketball then your disappointed in a week
11 years ago at 3:38 pmIt’s flat out awful. I used to hate the NBA until I needed something daily to gamble on between baseball and football. Still not in love with basketball in general but I realized that NBA players are so skilled and dominant offensively that they make defense look weak, and they spread the floor creating more open shots and a more entertaining product. The college 3 point line needs to just be at the NBA level and they need to widen the court. There are too many 6’8″ bodies in the lane and as a result of it you get a bunch of strip steals, heavily contested and blocked shots, and a shit ton shooting fouls. With everyone bunched up, help-defense is made easy and even a zone defense can be effective. The game is slow, nobody scores, and the best players only stick around for a year making rivalries less meaningful. It’s fucking brutal to watch and it gets televised way too fucking much.
11 years ago at 8:17 amI respectfully disagree, I enjoy a solid defensive game. It’s not as flashy, but its much harder to play goo defense than to sand around and throw alley oops all day.. I played in college and personally I love college basketball more than the NBA. For most college basketball players there is the passion to play at your highest level since only 1.2% of the D1 players actually get drafted. Seems like most NBA players are just in it for the paycheck (rightfully so).
The college game does need to extend the 3pt line, widen the lane (same for NBA), and change to a 30 second shot clock.
11 years ago at 8:24 amGood teams in the NBA play for more than a paycheck and good matchups are exciting to watch. Of course no one wants to watch Pistons/Magic on a Tuesday night, but then again, no one wants to watch South Carolina/Mississippi State either. I’ll agree, there’s more passion across the board in college bball but the quality of play and entertainment factor is god awful. The long shot clock, congested lane, and lack of player familiarity makes it completely unwatchable unless your team is playing or you yourself are a basketball player. It’s just not entertaining. I’d like to see the aforementioned game play changes made and make players stay for their sophomore year. Sure, you’ll see a handful pull a Brandon Jennings and play in Europe for a year, but it’ll bring back the player recognition and restore rivalry games a little bit. It’s hard for Geno to say men’s bball sucks as a woman’s coach, but he’s not wrong, and analysts have been bitching about the college bball decline all year. The product is just.. bad.
11 years ago at 10:25 amAnother reason for praying to not have a daughter, imagine having to sit through those games and fake like you are enjoying it.
11 years ago at 3:24 pmJust be sure to impregnate a short white woman. Should alleviate that stress.
11 years ago at 3:26 pmThen you would have to watch soccer or god forbid softball games.
11 years ago at 3:32 pmBut you could get lucky enough and she plays volleyball.
11 years ago at 6:42 pmAnd have “brothas” howl over her rocking ass? No thank ya.
11 years ago at 8:31 pmEnrolling her in a private school & a nice suburban area should alleviate those concerns. There will be some, but a lot less than public schooling.
11 years ago at 8:17 amYeah, if the latter, that means your daughter’s a lesbian. At least I’d rather her fart box get tongue punched by a dude than another dyke.
11 years ago at 9:03 pmWhy do you want your daughter’s “fart box” to get tongue punched by anyone…?
11 years ago at 11:34 pmPretty sure this is an April fool’s joke dude.
11 years ago at 3:30 pmI wonder if he realizes that if it weren’t for Title 9 he wouldn’t have a job.
11 years ago at 3:35 pmHe probably couldn’t coach a mens team, womens basketball is nothing but fundamentals, you don’t really even need to be athletic as long as you can dribble and pass above average. Every good basketball coach has the ability to harness an athletes athletecism, mix it with an offense, and turn it into points on a board. Fuck you Geno Auriemma
11 years ago at 3:37 pmI’m pretty sure coaches are supposed to coach fundamentals because they are the only thing you can control. If he’s so good at fundamentals I’m sure he could take an athletic team of dudes and do quite well.
11 years ago at 4:17 pmThis is definitely an April Fool’s joke, but it’s still really funny. UConn wins the championship 90% of the time, and half of the NCAA tournament point differentials are 20-30 points.
11 years ago at 3:43 pmI went to every single girls basketball game in high school high off my ass. I was the sole member of the student section in a crowd of about 30. Needless to say I became a professional heckler by the end of the season.
11 years ago at 3:57 pmI’m guessing you were a popular guy?
11 years ago at 4:09 pmThe girls basketball team loved me.
11 years ago at 5:48 pmMen’s college basketball is the only form of the game I find at all watchable, specifically because they don’t run up the score to 125-123.
11 years ago at 4:05 pmShut up. If I want to watch sub par basketball, I’ll ask Dorn where the best middle school match up is at.
11 years ago at 3:49 amI think Uconn women are the one team in America that could beat Kentucky
11 years ago at 4:31 pm