I can really say that being a sports fan, either you like the underdog and you love your favorite. I can tell you things like this.
In the NFL, you love the Cowboys or you really, really hate them.
In the NBA, you love the Lakers or you really, really hate them.
In Major League Baseball, you love the Yankees or the Red Sox or you really, really hate them (sorry, both are annoying at times).
In college football, you love THE Ohio State University Buckeyes or you really, really hate them.
In men’s college basketball, you love the Duke Blue Devils or you really, really hate them (...and you don’t have to be an UNC fan for that one).
And now it has spewed over into women college basketball.
In women’s college basketball, you love the UCONN Huskies or you really, really hate them.
I cannot feel sympathy for the rest of women’s college basketball when I say that UCONN is either “that good” or women’s college basketball recruitment has gotten “that bad.” Geno Auriemma is really that legendary of a coach. Their dominance in the women’s rank has gone down as even legendary as those Tennessee Lady Vols day and even Louisiana Tech dominance in the early 80s with the short sleeve jerseys. They play the game with great fundamentals and every time they usually have a backup player waiting to place their status of women’s basketball legendaries when their players graduate. You remember those old UCLA teams in the 60s. John Wooden replaced Lew Alcindor with Bill Walton, Gail Goodrich with Lynn Shackleford and Sidney Wicks with Keith Wilkes. Other colleges just ended up stepping the recruitment up after that.
So for all the women’s college basketball coaches that want to end UCONN, here is a note. Start recruiting better.
Would you rather watch UCONN beat the breaks off every team until someone challenge them or would you be happy just to see someone upset them?
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