Saylor Poffenbarger St. John's Pregrame Availability

[bluedevil]

What's your take on Jamelle Elliot? Do not answer that question. Ditto Geno on the days he uh, uh, uhs. It's all irrelevant. Meeting a diction standard won't increase your field goal percentage.

Lol..

 

[MilfordHusky]

Very disappointed with the snark and criticism on this board towards a 17 year old's communication skills. Can you imagine for a moment how nerve racking it is to be thrown into a video chat with multiple members of the media in a new environment? The lack of empathy is stunning.

I thought Say did fine. It was probably her longest video interview of her life.

 

[RockyMTblue2]

Nice local news interview from way back when she committed (1st in her class). I like her values.

Saylor Poffenbarger shares her story, leading up to her commitment to UConn

MIDDLETOWN, Md. (WDVM) – “I mean, I was the kid that was in like fourth grade, telling my P.E teacher I wanted to play at UConn.” said Saylor Poffenbarger, Class of 2021 UConn com…

www.localdvm.com

 

[meyers7]

Gotta put yourself in their shoes too. A 17-21 year old girl in college, having to answer questions from 40-60 year old men. Ugh. Granted, it's part of the deal, but it's gotta be one of their least favorite.

 

[Bama fan]

There are 394 replies to the "Saylor's Coming" thread. Everyone seemed overjoyed to have her join the UConn family. She wasn't here two weeks and some Boneyard boneheads take great joy in tearing her down. I have heard she cannot shoot correctly, she's too slow, she is not a polished communicator. She is not even 18 yet and she is being disparaged by so called adults upon very limited information or observation. I knew an old timer who was fond of saying "If you gave a million dollars to some folks, they would complain about the denominations of the bills!" I think we have some of them here.

 

[Alydar]

Like, personally, I really like, well, like you know, hearing kids of this age talk these days. Its like if they were like deprived of the use of a certain word in the lexicon, they’d like be rendered like mute! But, like still, how can one not like her?

The use of that word was very common 50 years ago when I was at UConn. "So, like, do you have a boyfriend"

 

[Martin]

I didn’t get the impression anyone was like picking on her.

 

[MooseJaw]

Like, personally, I really like, well, like you know, hearing kids of this age talk these days. Its like if they were like deprived of the use of a certain word in the lexicon, they’d like be rendered like mute! But, like still, how can one not like her?

Listen to Geno on his interviews, I am so tired of all people on interviews with ya-know, Go ahead and count them some day, turns my ears into "Spock" ears. Ya-know.

 

[hoopsfan22]

They should just do away with the interviews. There is too much press to be useful at this point. It's fine to have a 10-15 minute post-game with Geno, but the rest of it is just overkill.