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Seg 4 - WBB Show w Geno Auriemma Dec 8 · Coaches Corner

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  Final segment with gino Oriama here on the Wells Fargo, you kind of women's
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  basketball coach is shown. All right, one more thing on the topic of
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  money. I know some of your players have done very well with an IL,
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  but how has it affected the way you recruit now or has it?
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  Well, it's affected the way everyone recruits to a certain extent. You know,
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  if you're recruiting at the highest level, if you're trying to recruit the
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  top ten players in the country, there's no way to get around it.
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  It's probably going to cost you a lot of money. And you hope that
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  you can get involved with some of those kids who value some other things more
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  than just the money, you know, but there's no getting around You're going
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  to have to pay these players. And now you know with this new proposal,
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  you know you have to give which would in essence be every basketball player
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  third thousand dollars just to come to school. And that's a minimum. That
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  means you can give your best players one hundred you can give them whatever you
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  whatever you desire. And you know it's no salary cap and an unlimited free
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  agency. You know, we've talked about that. Yeah, and I don't
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  know how anybody can operate in a system like that. It's crazy. It
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  is, it is, it's insanity, you know. And and then if
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  you're a player, you have no obligation whatsoever. I don't know if you
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  saw the one line that was proposed. You have to guarantee a scholarship even
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  if that player doesn't play that sport, so they can come to school,
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  play a year and then decide I can't play anymore, I don't want to
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  play anymore, and you still have to honor their scholarship. Think about that,
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  Yeah, think about what that meants. That's wild. I can hire
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  you to work in my restaurant. After a week you say, you know,
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  I don't want to work here anymore, but you still got to pay,
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  right, Yeah, that's crazy. That is great, you know.
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  You know. So there's a whole set of issues coming up that are going
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  to fundamentally change everything we think about about basketball college basketball. And you know,
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  the sooner it gets to professional sports, the better will be for everybody.
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  At least you know what you're dealing with, right and maybe the players
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  will have to actually sign a contract that says I'm responsible for this, this,
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  this, this, and this right now, the schools to take all
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  the risks and the players get all the benefits, right, right, you
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  know it's been all weeks and says he had her surgery. I'm sure you've
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  talked to her once or twice. How's she doing? Doing great? I
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  saw her yesterday and you know, our athletic training staff said she's she's doing
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  great, that she's way ahead of where she normally would be at this time.
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  So you know, she's been through this before when she was in high
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  school, so it's not anything new. I don't like it for her.
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  She doesn't like it for her. Right. You hate to see, you
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  know, you hate to see this happen to anybody. But she's such a
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  hard worker, she's such a dedicated kid that I'm sure she'll be back even
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  stronger than before, no doubt. Right, what about Janna, we haven't
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  talked much about her. G know, what's your status? And is it
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  just something getting caught up with the knee again? That's that's problematic? Yeah,
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  yeah, it is, and same thing. You know, it goes
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  back to high school. You know, we might have to do a pro
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  style. You know, you have to pass the physical before you you know,
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  before before you before you can offer somebody a scholarship. Right, So
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  it's been something that's been bothering he since tenth grade. And you know,
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  everything that's that you can try has been tried and it works temporarily, but
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  it hasn't hasn't relieved enough of the pain that she could ply. So,
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  Uh, I don't know, We don't know where. You know, we'll
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  know probably more in the next couple of weeks because at some point, you
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  know, right, you're gonna have to You're gonna have to say if there's
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  the time you can't just go indefinitely like this right. Lastly, for our
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  segment, here, today's Today's a tough day for you. One year ago
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  today, your mom passed away and I lost my mom about six months later.
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  But I always think of lines that my mom always used to say to
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  me. My favorite one is I have two hands. I'm using them both,
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  particularly around the holidays. Is there a saying or two that your mom
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  had that you still carry around and use to this day, Well, there's
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  a there's a You know, when you grow up, you can think back
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  to so many things that that your mother probably uh said over and over again,
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  and some made sense, some didn't make sense and you look back now,
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  and she she always tried to remind me too, not get so caught
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  up and all this, you know, and don't don't forget you know what
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  the purpose is. You know. She was so selfless and did so much
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  for other people that she always felt like, that's your purpose. You know,
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  you need to you need to make sure that you keep that in mind,
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  that it's about you know, it's about the people that that you can
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  impact. It's not about you, it's not about what you can get out
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  of it. So that's that's what stuck with me the most. And she
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  shares a birthday with Diana Tarazzi and Maya Moore. That's crazy. Yeah,
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  yeah, that's the Holy Trinity right there. Yes, sir, Gino is
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  always a pleasure. We'll talk to you Sunday. Thank you for your time.
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  Sure, Bob, all right, it's Gino Oriam on the Women's Basketball
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  Coaches Show. Maggie Venoni's next on the Yukon Sports Network from Larfield. Stay with us