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Seg 5 - WBB Show w Geno Auriemma Jan 14 · Coaches Corner

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  Speaker 2: For players here.
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  Speaker 1: My two personal favorites are Rena and Nika one and two.
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  Speaker 1: Renee just I mean she was a regular postgame and
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  Speaker 1: with her parents. Yeah, I loved her parents. And then
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  Speaker 1: Nika got to know my grandson a little bit.
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  Speaker 2: So see, everybody's got their favorite players. Man. Yeah, and
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  Speaker 2: that's good. That's good. I think that's fantastic. You know.
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  Speaker 2: It's like my son.
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  Speaker 3: You know, he grew up around Gampo and he, you know,
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  Speaker 3: will go up there all the time and I would
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  Speaker 3: bring him up there all the time. And you know,
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  Speaker 3: he ended up being a really good player at East Catholic,
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  Speaker 3: you know, and all State and all that nice stuff.
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  Speaker 3: And his favorite player was Kaleelam there you go. Let
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  Speaker 3: mean think about all the players that he saw coming
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  Speaker 3: through yu Kon.
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  Speaker 1: They don't win it ninety nine without him, No, absolutely,
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  Speaker 1: he was the glue.
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  Speaker 3: And you know because Kyle it took him under his
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  Speaker 3: wing and said, hey, come on, let's go.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah there you go.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Now, one of the read now tonight it has to
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  Speaker 1: do with your for the Kids Foundation. Gino for the
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  Speaker 1: Kids Foundation. It's Gino for the Kids dot org. It's
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  Speaker 1: fr it used to be for but it's more than golf. Now,
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  Speaker 1: Bill Sussi is here, he's the first honorary chairman. Bill,
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  Speaker 1: there you go. But it's grown twenty five years with
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  Speaker 1: the success now with your name, the success that you've had.
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  Speaker 1: I know that the tournament, the golf tournament that you
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  Speaker 1: have at Hartford Golf Club is enormous and you generate
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  Speaker 1: a lot of money. How much money do you think
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  Speaker 1: you've raised for the Connecticut Children's Medical Center?
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  Speaker 2: I mean, I don't know. I hope it's in the millions.
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  Speaker 3: Five million, I mean five million dollars doesn't sound like
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  Speaker 3: a lot to some people, but to a place that's
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  Speaker 3: not exactly inundated with federal grants and a lot of
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  Speaker 3: people wanting to pour money into the place, million dollars
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  Speaker 3: that can do a lot. And this is these are
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  Speaker 3: people that are they have jobs, they have a real life,
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  Speaker 3: and these aren't necessarily all professional fundraisers. You know, it's
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  Speaker 3: people who volunteered their time to do this. And when
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  Speaker 3: I got involved the first year that we did it,
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  Speaker 3: when they asked me to come down and speak to them,
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  Speaker 3: I asked him when it was over, I said, hey,
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  Speaker 3: how we do tonight?
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  Speaker 2: You know?
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  Speaker 3: It was it good. They're like, oh, yeah, it's great.
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  Speaker 3: We made twenty five thousand dollars. It was a great night.
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  Speaker 3: I mean I drove all the way down here and
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  Speaker 3: speak at this thing and we made twenty five thousand dollars.
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  Speaker 2: I could have just written you a check for twenty
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  Speaker 2: five thousand. Why did I come all the way down here?
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  Speaker 2: But for them it was a start. They had never done.
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  Speaker 3: It to the level that I thought it could be done.
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  Speaker 3: So we went from that to I don't know what
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  Speaker 3: are we making now in the gov tournament six seven
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  Speaker 3: hundred thousand, eight hundred thousand. So we went from making
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  Speaker 3: twenty five thousand dollars in our GOV tournament, you know,
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  Speaker 3: and all that stuff, now I'm making eight hundred thousand dollars,
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  Speaker 3: you know, count the whole thing. So it was a
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  Speaker 3: small beginning by a small group of people who just
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  Speaker 3: had a passion for it. And I've been fortunate because
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  Speaker 3: I don't do anything. I can't take any credit for this.
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  Speaker 3: I show up, you know, I play off, I hang
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  Speaker 3: around with a bunch of people and have a great time,
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  Speaker 3: you know, smoke cigars afterwards on the patio at Harford.
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  Speaker 3: And so many people are doing so much work, so
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  Speaker 3: many volunteers, three hundred and sixty five days a year,
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  Speaker 3: and I couldn't be prouder of all their work. Todd,
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  Speaker 3: my son in law, is a big, big, big part
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  Speaker 3: of that obviously.
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  Speaker 2: You know.
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  Speaker 1: Here you go share three events coming up, Charity Dinner Saturday,
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  Speaker 1: May thirtieth, Gino's event, which is always Travelers Championship Week
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  Speaker 1: early Hartford Golf Club June sixteenth, and then Norwalk shore
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  Speaker 1: Haven Golf Club in October.
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  Speaker 3: So we had it in sure Haven last year for
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  Speaker 3: the first time. And you guys ever played Shrehaven. It's
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  Speaker 3: one of the best golf courses I've ever played, and
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  Speaker 3: I had never been down there before. It's unbelievably good.
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  Speaker 3: And we didn't have any like, not a lot of publicity.
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  Speaker 3: A lot of people didn't know about it. It was
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  Speaker 3: like kind of like, let's go down and dip our
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  Speaker 3: feet into the water and see how it goes.
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  Speaker 2: And it was amazing. It was great, It was great.
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  Speaker 3: You know, it's a different clientele down there, right down
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  Speaker 3: that part of the world. It's a little different than
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  Speaker 3: up here. You know, we're just you know, we're just
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  Speaker 3: regular people here scraping to get by and they're down
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  Speaker 3: there doing what they do. So the auction down there
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  Speaker 3: is like an ego thing. Guys don't want to lose
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  Speaker 3: an auction item to somebody else, so it's become hilarious
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  Speaker 3: how we just drive the price up and it's great.
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  Speaker 2: It's great. So the success that we had the very
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  Speaker 2: first year with so.
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  Speaker 3: Little input or work from us, I think this year
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  Speaker 3: we're going to kill it.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, back with you, yep, all right, we're gonna go back.
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  Speaker 1: Wrap things up with Gina in just a minute. The
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  Speaker 1: live radio show, and then of course we have the
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  Speaker 1: after show here at Cafe or it's the Yukon Women's
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  Speaker 1: Basketball Coaches Show on Learfield. Stay with us,