Don't Think This Wish Fulfillment Will Come True...

Don't Think This Wish Fulfillment Will Come True...
by dillon77 (2018-08-15 09:53:53)
Edited on 2018-08-15 09:55:43

In reply to: Yawn. Happy for Voepel - she’s been dying for this. posted by Goirish01

..and rekindle interest in a once very relevant rivalry that has, really, seen it's day...a decade ago.

As the article says:

"Tennessee beat the (Stanford) Cardinal for the title behind Candace Parker. That was the Lady Vols' last of 18 appearances in the Final Four. Meanwhile, UConn was embarking on a decade-plus of unprecedented dominance in women's college basketball."

Candace Parker is now 32 years old and is the youngest of the famed UT/UConn stars who have faced each other in games that matter.

Pat Summit is, of course, no longer here, but Holly W. still uses her approach of recruiting athletic hoopsters and having them use their athletic abilities to beat most teams. However, they no longer play D and rebound like Summit's teams did. And who knows if Geno will be around in 2020? If not, this move is a total marshmallow.

If UConn wanted to schedule a home and home against a relevant SEC national contender, Geno should've called Vic Schaefer at MSU.

Agree Schaefer keeps reloading now using Grad students.

He is an excellent coach. Another SEC team stong is certainly South Carolina with Staley's role as the coach of the USWNT is stronger and her recent NC, but UConn has been playing them.

The truth is UConn needs these games more than the SEC (or any other power conference elite team) and should take any home and home they can work out, especially ones with big away crowds whose team will attract big UConn home crowds. The games they have to play in the AAC don't help them at all.