20 December 2010
Quote of the Day: Geno Auriemma
From the press conference after last night's game. (I found the quote on Swish Appeal.):
"I know there would not be this many people in this room if we were chasing a women’s record. The reason why everyone is having a heart attack the last four or five days is a bunch of women are threatening to break a men’s record and everyone is up in arms about it. All the women are happy as hell and can’t wait to come in and ask questions. All the men who love women’s basketball are excited, and all the miserable bastards who follow men’s basketball and don’t want us to break the record are all here because they are pissed. So that’s the way it is.
"If we were breaking a women’s record, everybody would go: 'Aren’t those girls nice. Just give them two paragraphs in USA Today or give them one line on the bottom of ESPN and let’s send them back where they belong in the kitchen.' But because we are breaking a men’s record, we have a lot of people paying attention."
"I know there would not be this many people in this room if we were chasing a women’s record. The reason why everyone is having a heart attack the last four or five days is a bunch of women are threatening to break a men’s record and everyone is up in arms about it. All the women are happy as hell and can’t wait to come in and ask questions. All the men who love women’s basketball are excited, and all the miserable bastards who follow men’s basketball and don’t want us to break the record are all here because they are pissed. So that’s the way it is.
"If we were breaking a women’s record, everybody would go: 'Aren’t those girls nice. Just give them two paragraphs in USA Today or give them one line on the bottom of ESPN and let’s send them back where they belong in the kitchen.' But because we are breaking a men’s record, we have a lot of people paying attention."
Labels: UConn basketball
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