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Hey, tourney coverage: Feel free to show free-throw stats She doesn’t want her students to be bullied any more than she’d want them to be bullies. On Legault’s watch we can reasonably surmise that such will never again occur. She apologized for the dehumanizing result and for a coach who kicked kids when they already were way down - under the heading of “sports,” no less. Unlike at UConn, where the administration indulges Auriemma with look-away passes - he’s the headmaster of Our Ladies of Perpetual Silence - East Bridgewater school superintendent Elizabeth Legault knows right from wrong - and isn’t afraid to speak it. Two weeks prior in Massachusetts, not far from UConn, a girls’ high school tournament game was won, 93-7, by East Bridgewater, its coach - ostensibly a responsible adult - flooring the gas though up, 48-4, at the half. And if he doesn’t know how it’s done, I’ll be happy to show him.īut paid over $2 million a year by the publicly funded state university, he’s entitled to produce and direct slaughters he’s another who demands respect in exchange for none. Holding the score down to, say, a 50- or 60-point win should not be difficult for any coach, let alone one of Auriemma’s acumen. Score one for the FBI in latest bit of NCAA Tournament insanity Mercy isn’t the issue as much as dignity, specifically how much lies beneath Auriemma’s, and it’s clearly not beneath his to beat a visiting team by 88 points. I’ve seen dozens of his games, and most were similar to this one - only not quite as twisted.Īnd unless the play-by-play sheet and boxscore were sabotaged, what went down was inexcusable, as 33-0 UConn, already ridiculously lopsided winners, piled it on.Īuriemma’s team played, as he explains it, “the way we always play,” which seems more a self-indictment than a reasonable explanation.
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Or a coach who knows how to show mercy.”Īsked about that by the Hartford Courant, Auriemma said, “That dope from USA Today - I don’t even know his name - I guarantee he didn’t see the game. His latest brutalization was noted by USA Today’s Josh Peter, who wrote that women’s college basketball “could use a mercy rule. Francis kids back to their 2,100-students campus in Loretto as record-breaking losers, perhaps too embarrassed to be seen.
One of his starters played 29 minutes of the 40, another 24.Īuriemma needlessly, cruelly sent the St.
But Auriemma still had his team pouring it on, blocking shots, making steals, taking and making 3s, not killing the clock. NCAA athletics' ridiculous scam summed up by senior newcomerĪt 94-31, it was a blowout by halftime.
UConn broke several NCAA Tournament scoring records including total points. Yet even by Auriemmea’s long-established standards, this one was extra twisted. Saturday, in the first round of the NCAA Tournament, UConn, playing at home, did what it does under Auriemma: It pulverized its opponent. Why win by 40, 50, 60 when you can win by 70, 80, 88, making your opponents appear as small and as worthless as possible?īut according to Auriemma, those who would dare fault his winning methods are “dopes.” Then I’m a dope, proud of it, too. The only thing worse than a bad loser is a bad winner, and Auriemma specializes in annihilations and humiliations. And he’s here to punish you - stomp you when you’re already thoroughly beaten - in the names of the University of Connecticut and NCAA student athletics. He’s women’s college basketball’s version of Vlad the Impaler.
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Shame on them, I suppose.Īnd though the TV folks regularly kiss his fanny and pretend they don’t see what can’t be missed, Geno Auriemma is a consistent, remorseless bully. That’s how they raised me, invoking the old “Treat others as you’d have them treat you” thing. Doesn’t matter if they’re Mike Francesa, Rex Ryan, LaVar Ball, Chris Christie, Bobby Knight or Popeye’s nemesis, Bluto.īlame my parents. Gary Sanchez, Clint Frazier's demise part of a bigger Yankees problemįox tone-deaf to glorify Baylor students' frenzy after Astroword disaster Hall of Fame's steroid cloud goes back to George Steinbrenner, Bud Selig Entitled Tiger Woods has taught media to ignore the tough questionsįootball airtime celebrating the insufferable