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Seg 3 - WBB Show w Geno Auriemma Dec 8 · Coaches Corner

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  Back with Gino here on the Yukon Women's Basketball Coaches Show for a Friday night.
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  Maggie Vanani of the CT Insider dot combo joined us in the last two
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  segments the Hall of Fame Women's Showcase, first time ever. It's a triple
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  header at mohegan Son second ranked UCLA Florida State Open, South Carolina Utah that's
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  one versus eleven, and then North Carolina Yukon. That's a pretty darn good
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  triple header. That's like a regional somewhere. Yeah, that sure is.
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  I mean, I thought the Hall of Fame, Uh, you know,
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  the people there did a fabulous job of getting those those quality teams to come
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  out and you know, having in Connecticut where people really appreciate the game and
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  the fans are knowledgeable enough, I know it's going to be an exciting event
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  for our fans. And every game, every game is is high level and
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  you get to see teams you don't normally see here. You know, you
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  don't you know, you don't normally see a Utah. You know, you
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  haven't seen a u c A team out out here, you know, in
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  December. So all these are are really really, really good and they're they're
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  great for the game and they're great for us, do you know, I
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  know you have a great relationship with Corey. Speaking of u c l A,
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  Corey close to head coach Kiki right is legit. You've seen some really
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  good point guards this year Rice Ronnie Harmon was really good at Texas. But
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  your your relationship with Corey, that would be a great you know, regular
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  team on the schedule U c l A. It used to be like yukon
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  Stanford. It's fun to play the Bruins. And Corey's a really good coach
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  and I know she's senior team practiced many many times back in the past.
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  Yeah, yeah, you know, we're always looking to see what the next
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  series is going to be, which means that some people will probably have to
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  drop all that sang in order to add a new one. And and certainly
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  you know u c l A is one that we we would look you know,
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  and you would go out there probably and play two games instead of just
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  one, as I'm sure they would you know coming out here. So yeah,
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  you we have the usual suspects you know of people that we play,
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  and then you try to mix the match going forward. Uh, drop this
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  series for a while add this series, and that's that's what makes it exciting.
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  Is it easier said than done to put all that together? Schedule wise?
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  What's it like every year? Is it harder than it's ever been or
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  a little easier? Well, I think going forward, it's going to depend
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  on all the conferences that these people are in and how many conference games,
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  how many conference games they have. You know, in the Big East,
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  we went from you know, eighteen or twenty to eighteen I believe, which
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  added to two more spots that we could play non conference games. So I
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  don't know, you know, UCLA going to the Big Ten, how many
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  games are they going to have to play in the regular season in a conference?
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  And that's going to be, you know, probably a big determining factor
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  on who you can a and who you can't because then they'll have to drop
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  somebody that they've been playing. So it's a it's a Mary go around and
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  and you you just try to do the best you can. And I think
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  people look judging by what now people are lined up from here to Chicago to
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  playoffs. Used to be hard. Now I think it's a little bit easier.
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  No, I understand that too, and It's a shame because all this
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  is football driven. It's not even basketball driven or any other sport. It's
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  all about football. Yeah yeah, Now nothing makes any sense anymore. You
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  know where this is going. Uh, it isn't good for schools like Connecticut
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  or schools in our situation, and and unfortunately there's nothing you can do about
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  it. You know, people initially thought that, you know, they can
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  legislate you out of existence, but that's not what's going to happen. What's
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  going to happen is they're going to bankrupt you. They're going to financially drive
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  you out of existence. You know, if you have sixty sixty five schools
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  that can afford these new these new things that are being implemented, that leaves
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  everybody else out, you know, to a certain extent, and everybody's going
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  to have to deal with it. Everybody's going to have to figure out where
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  do I fit in? And I hope that it doesn't happen where the the
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  basketball tournament becomes the same as the you know, the college football bowl series.
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  That you've got this group here, and you've got this group over here,
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  and they have their own tournament, and everybody else has their own tournament.
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  Hopefully that never gets to that point. But you know, there's so
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  much money in the football thing that the amount of money that's available to these
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  schools, they they will do anything to get a piece of it. The
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  one nice thing is that that the men's basketball tournament makes more money than football
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  will ever make. So that's still out there that hopefully you don't want to
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  mess with. Great final segment with Gino and the Wells Fargo. You kind
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  of women's basketball coaches show coming up in a minute here on their fields.