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Seg 4 - WBB Show w Geno Jan 9 · Coaches Corner

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  Final segment with Gino as the Huskies take on Providence tomorrow six o'clock on the
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  radio from the Excel Center over in the River one oh five nine and Friars
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  had a chance to watch them. On Sunday, Fox FS one did a
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  doubleheader. They had a Creighton in the Paul the first game around four o'clock
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  and then Providence Saint John's and Saint John's is your next opponent after Providence at
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  Alumni Hall. Friar's a little different new coaching staff that includes Kylie McLaren and
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  like Yukon dealing with injuries, particularly in their backcourt. No Kylie Shepard,
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  no grayci Fosa, So it's one of the grad assistants that's at time.
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  Left is how they're starting point guard. That's crazy. I told you it's
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  an epidemic. Man, I don't know what the heck is going on,
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  but it's interesting that you know the way the Big East is going right now,
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  you have no idea who's going to beat who anymore. There used to
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  be some semblance of border you know, one, two, three, four,
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  dse four teams are going to be really really good. This fifth one
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  is going to upset everyone and then six seven, eight nine, you know
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  whatever, Now you have no idea anymore, You have no idea. You
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  know, people people lose home games to people. You go, I can't
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  believe they lost that game. People win games. Then you go, that's
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  a huge upset, and you start to say, you know, I don't
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  think you can take any game lightly really, I mean, yeah, we've
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  made we've made the biggiest look really easy this year during those first three games,
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  yes, I get that any even going back to the Butler game,
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  right right, Butler scored sixty two against us, by the way, Yeah,
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  to a good start, Yeah, exactly, So Providence were a new
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  coaching staff. Then you get the injuries. Now you go, okay,
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  I wonder what they're gonna do. And you know that went against the Poul
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  at home, right, Yeah, they went against the Paul. They go
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  down a seat and home and beat Seaton Hall, who'll beat UNLV by twenty
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  who's in the top twenty five. So there's no rhyme or reason to some
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  of the stuff. But I know, you know, that's a great coaching
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  stay up. They got great people over there, and they play great defense.
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  I mean same with Georgetown. You know, teams that are challenged scoring
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  wise, they do a really good job of keeping the keeping the game,
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  you know, low scoring, and I would expect the Providence we try to
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  do the same thing against us, and Saint Johns is always a pain of
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  about to play oh, always always, you know, that's never changed in
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  the two times in the Big East, you know. And we went out
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  there to play them in that Ubs Center a couple of years ago last year
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  and it was a blowout. We won by one hundred. Yeah, and
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  I couldn't believe it. And then they come here and they beat us.
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  So there's no rhyme or reason to what, you know, just it's funny.
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  We just had that conversation with our team today, the way you prevent
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  any nonsense from happening the best of your ability, not that it won't happen,
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  but I said, don't we just do the same thing for every game?
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  I said, we just watched film on Providence, and you would not
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  know if we were watching film on Providence or South Carolina. We just went
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  through our scattering report on Providence and you wouldn't know whether it was Providence or
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  UCLA. Everything we do is exactly the same. There's a reason for that,
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  so you never have to feel like, oh, this is a really
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  big game today, Oh this is not a big game. Throw all big
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  games. Throw all big games, and if you want to win the biggest
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  championship in my mind, win them all. Then you don't have to worry.
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  That's right. Well, over the weekend, the Huskies of course not
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  class last week, so it was Creighton the DC where they had some downtime,
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  Arlington on Friday and they did the Holocaust Museum or the African American History
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  Museum and Culture, one of the Smisonian buildings. On Saturday. You did
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  Arlington. That's a powerful place. And of course you saw the changing of
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  the guard once again. Yeah. Yeah, I can't tell you how many
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  times I've been there. And actually when I was coaching the Olympic team,
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  me and the two captains went out with General Dempsey and we changed the wreath
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  that they that they have there at the tomb of the Unknown Soldier. And
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  I don't care if you've been there one hundred times. It is such an
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  emotional ceremony when they changed the guard and Nica just turned around one point and
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  said everything is perfect. I said, yeah, everything is perfect. There
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  is no what was that there is no my bad, there is no mistakes,
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  none, zero. So afterwards we were asking one of the guys there,
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  we said, how did they get to do this? Well, they
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  train, they train every day. There's like forty of them and they rotate
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  and you have to be selected. You have to have a perfect record,
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  you have to whatever you have to do. And she said, and the
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  tour guide said, and they never get anything wrong, even at practice.
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  And I turned around and looked at the team and they all went, oh
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  God, really, did he really just say that? So that was a
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  lighter moment. But and to me, you know, you know, my
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  grandfather is buried in Egypt, you know, during World War Two. Kathy,
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  my wife's father was a ship commander in World War Two. He's buried
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  at the Long Island National Cemetery. So I think there's every family in America
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  if you look back far enough, that has a history of you know,
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  military service. And it's just so impressive and so incredibly moving. And then
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  for them the next day, I have been there and I needed to,
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  you know, I needed to do some stuff. But for them to for
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  a lot of those that's the first time they've probably been to the Holocaust Museum,
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  you know, and an the African American Culture Museum. Some of them
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  have never been there, and they have to know the history, you know,
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  they have to know the history. I don't know the history is being
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  taught that much in school these days, but they have to know the history.
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  It's our job to teach them the history. So at one point,
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  you know, when we told them what the schedule was, and then we
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  said, you know, when we go to New York, we're going to
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  try to go to nine to eleven Memorial. I think one of them at
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  some point goes, are we ever going to do anything that's like fun and
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  lighthearted? Like everything is like heavy, heavy, heavy, right, And
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  we laughed about it, and he said, well, it's part of the
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  history of this country that you know, I don't think should ever be forgotten.
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  So I'm proud of them. They were really they were really caught up
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  in the whole thing. And I'm glad we did it. We always do
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  it, but I'm glad we did it with this group, right, And
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  We'll leave it at that. Gino is always a pleasure. We'll talk tomorrow
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  night for the game, Okay, Bob, Hey, coach Gino ramble with
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  us on the Coaches Show. Stay tuned. K k Arnold is next on
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  the Wells Fargo Bank You kind of women's basketball Coaches Show from Deerfield