Mike & Mike Segment on UConn Dominance

[Buzzyboy]

Someone needs to tell one of their other hosts. Amin Elhassan enlightened ESPN radio listeners today. Some of nuggets we learned include UConn gets the five best HS players every year, UConn didn't start dominating until Pat Summit retired, Tennessee dominated in the same fashion UConn has, and Summit is easily the best coach of all time. Also, UConn gets all the good players and the competition is thin but apparently this wasn't the case for Tennessee in the 80's and 90's.

The fun starts at 21:00.

http://espn.go.com/espnradio/play?id=15077543

That guy is truly one total idiot. If you look up the word ignorant in the dictionary, his picture pops up unequivocally. How often in the last ten years has UConn NOT HAD the top one or two or three rated class???? Has anyone in the history of women's basketball had the advantage that Pat Summit had when she started at Tennessee? What viable programs existed at that time???? How much talent was available. What other university had the type of facilities that Tennessee had AT THAT TIME! What other women's program after her first two or three years got anywhere the national exposure that Tennessee did??? On every level, her advantages over any other program were so OVERWHELMING that she should have probably had fifteen or twenty UNDEFEATED seasons and how many national championships??? Geno started with a regional school with lousy facilities and only one winning season and beat the snot out of Pat Summit from their first meeting throughout. Tennessee had only limited success against the Huskies and NEVER won a title game against UConn. What does that suggest on whose the better coach? This guy is making a living on sports radio and yet can talk at length on a subject that he has absolutely no accurate information. He should be thrown out on his stupid ass! He has a much more charmed life than the worst weatherman on the planet and we know what type of services they provide. To spout out of his butt like he actually has a brain????

 

[Buzzyboy]

Someone needs to tell one of their other hosts. Amin Elhassan enlightened ESPN radio listeners today. Some of nuggets we learned include UConn gets the five best HS players every year, UConn didn't start dominating until Pat Summit retired, Tennessee dominated in the same fashion UConn has, and Summit is easily the best coach of all time. Also, UConn gets all the good players and the competition is thin but apparently this wasn't the case for Tennessee in the 80's and 90's.

The fun starts at 21:00.

http://espn.go.com/espnradio/play?id=15077543

That guy is truly one total idiot. If you look up the word ignorant in the dictionary, his picture pops up unequivocally. How often in the last ten years has UConn NOT HAD the top one or two or three rated class???? Has anyone in the history of women's basketball had the advantage that Pat Summit had when she started at Tennessee? What viable programs existed at that time???? How much talent was available. What other university had the type of facilities that Tennessee had AT THAT TIME! What other women's program after her first two or three years got anywhere the national exposure that Tennessee did??? On every level, her advantages over any other program were so OVERWHELMING that she should have probably had fifteen or twenty UNDEFEATED seasons and how many national championships??? Geno started with a regional school with lousy facilities and only one winning season and beat the snot out of Pat Summit from their first meeting throughout. Tennessee had only limited success against the Huskies and NEVER won a title game against UConn. What does that suggest on whose the better coach? This guy is making a living on sports radio and yet can talk at length on a subject that he has absolutely no accurate information. He should be thrown out on his stupid ass! He has a much more charmed life than the worst weatherman on the planet and we know what type of services they provide. To spout out of his butt like he actually has a brain????

 

[Buzzyboy]

Someone needs to tell one of their other hosts. Amin Elhassan enlightened ESPN radio listeners today. Some of nuggets we learned include UConn gets the five best HS players every year, UConn didn't start dominating until Pat Summit retired, Tennessee dominated in the same fashion UConn has, and Summit is easily the best coach of all time. Also, UConn gets all the good players and the competition is thin but apparently this wasn't the case for Tennessee in the 80's and 90's.

The fun starts at 21:00.

http://espn.go.com/espnradio/play?id=15077543

Who is Amin Elhassan? Odd I have never heard of him before.....

I'm pretty sure his parents probably wish they had never heard of him, if this line of dribble out of his mouth suggests what his intelligence level is.

 

[Buzzyboy]

These talking heads seem to have historical amnesia. They talk like UConn hasn't lost a game in 20 years. One only has to go back to 3 years ago, when UConn lost 4 games in the regular season — 3 of them to Notre Dame! — and looked to be fighting uphill as they entered the tournament seeded behind Baylor and ND.

Yes, UConn has been far and away the most successful program. But that neglects to mention the four other programs that have also won national championships in just the last 10 years.

To be sure, what was unusual about those 3 losses to Notre Dame was that UConn did some self destruction that was so atypical of what Geno teams do. Notre Dame did take advantage of opportunities that UConn almost never give their opponents but they were still UConn's games to win and they failed.

 

[Plebe]

To be sure, what was unusual about those 3 losses to Notre Dame was that UConn did some self destruction that was so atypical of what Geno teams do. Notre Dame did take advantage of opportunities that UConn almost never give their opponents but they were still UConn's games to win and they failed.

And it was precisely that level of late-game self-destruction that led many to say that Notre Dame had gotten into UConn's head. It was an unusual three-year period. Whatever demons those were, it was very satisfying to see them exorcised in the emphatic victories that started in the 2013 national semifinal. It was also stunning to see how the same team that was getting UConn's goat seemed to habitually crumble on the biggest stage of them all.

 

[WackyJack]

Look at it this way, if UCONN weren't dominating, would Mike and Mike be discussing WCBB?

Golic would if his beloved Irish were in the hunt for this year's title again!