Tonyc
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You know what was very obvious to me last night. MD is underdeveloped and not disciplined. When I look at UConn in a tuff game building a lead with their two stars sitting on the bench and 3 bigs in foul trouble and UConn is continuing to build their lead and they're smiling and laughing which shows me they are confident and relaxed. This is why kids come to UConn. This is one of the differences for playing at UConn. Development, confidence, and learning the game and most importantly they earn it with hard work its not handed to them.
You see today to compete to many recruits are being promised and handed positions just so that their coach can get them in hopes of competing. Kids are pressured by friends and future teammates to come with them to play with them. Ive never met anybody who was handed something for nothing and didn't want more. Let me give you an example. Tell your kids they don't have to work and you will give them an allowance for getting good grades and see how long it takes for them to ask you for more money??? LOL some of you know what I'm talking about. LOL
I felt for Thomas. She is a very good player with players around her who are not taught and developed on the basics. If they played at UConn, Geno would have them on the bench until they learned how to play the game the right way. Look at the level Kiah Stokes is playing at? Unbelievable. She's smiling having fun and feels like shes part of something. Why? Because she earned it and wasn't promised anything but an opportunity. She wasn't handed it for doing nothing. She had to earn it. It wasn't a free pass. Geno didn't say to her come to UConn and I guarantee you will start. Im sure he said something like you come to UConn and this is what we've done and if you work hard I will give you a chance. UConn is a opportunity with a personal development program tied to it....along with a National Championship or more. This is why a team like MD cant compete with UConn. UConn has a system and you can plug a UConn player into it and they will execute what they've been taught in practice and trust what they do. That's why when KML Stewie Kiah and Stef are on the bench they team continues to roll. This is why it is very important to have good guards and why next season we have some good guards who can handle the ball coming in.
We may never see coaching like this again in any sport, because in other sports especially mens sports they leave early to play professionally . What we have at UConn is something special. What we have is a program that other coaches aspire to be like. Other programs when recruiting will try to knock down UConn because of their new league or because they play up north where its cold in the winter. They can't knock what UConn has accomplished. See at UConn we don't have to tell recruits we are going to win the league or NC. We do and we have. Other coaches who haven't even won a league championship are telling recruits they will win a NC when they've never even won a league championship. I heard a comment yesterday that opposing coaches are telling recruits when you interview with other team ask them how tuff their conference is? To that I say to the recruit ask that coach how many league championships they've won and when was the last time they got to the Final 4 and won a NC?????? They haven't in most cases. When you number 1 at the top the view doesn't change for everybody else. End of Subject.
You see today to compete to many recruits are being promised and handed positions just so that their coach can get them in hopes of competing. Kids are pressured by friends and future teammates to come with them to play with them. Ive never met anybody who was handed something for nothing and didn't want more. Let me give you an example. Tell your kids they don't have to work and you will give them an allowance for getting good grades and see how long it takes for them to ask you for more money??? LOL some of you know what I'm talking about. LOL
I felt for Thomas. She is a very good player with players around her who are not taught and developed on the basics. If they played at UConn, Geno would have them on the bench until they learned how to play the game the right way. Look at the level Kiah Stokes is playing at? Unbelievable. She's smiling having fun and feels like shes part of something. Why? Because she earned it and wasn't promised anything but an opportunity. She wasn't handed it for doing nothing. She had to earn it. It wasn't a free pass. Geno didn't say to her come to UConn and I guarantee you will start. Im sure he said something like you come to UConn and this is what we've done and if you work hard I will give you a chance. UConn is a opportunity with a personal development program tied to it....along with a National Championship or more. This is why a team like MD cant compete with UConn. UConn has a system and you can plug a UConn player into it and they will execute what they've been taught in practice and trust what they do. That's why when KML Stewie Kiah and Stef are on the bench they team continues to roll. This is why it is very important to have good guards and why next season we have some good guards who can handle the ball coming in.
We may never see coaching like this again in any sport, because in other sports especially mens sports they leave early to play professionally . What we have at UConn is something special. What we have is a program that other coaches aspire to be like. Other programs when recruiting will try to knock down UConn because of their new league or because they play up north where its cold in the winter. They can't knock what UConn has accomplished. See at UConn we don't have to tell recruits we are going to win the league or NC. We do and we have. Other coaches who haven't even won a league championship are telling recruits they will win a NC when they've never even won a league championship. I heard a comment yesterday that opposing coaches are telling recruits when you interview with other team ask them how tuff their conference is? To that I say to the recruit ask that coach how many league championships they've won and when was the last time they got to the Final 4 and won a NC?????? They haven't in most cases. When you number 1 at the top the view doesn't change for everybody else. End of Subject.