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RE: Coach K vs. Geno

This is like comparing apples to oranges. Not even close. It makes no sense to even write this one.

RE: Coach K vs. Geno

Funny how the editor did not let me say "b alls" in my post which is considered offensive. It should take context into consideration, considering this is a sports board where the item you use in the sport is a "b all" of some sort. That is just silly that it block that word here.

RE: Coach K vs. Geno

Apples vs Oranges

RE: Coach K vs. Geno

No offense to Geno but the men's game is so different it is like comparing two totally different things. UConn has no competition in the womens game. It is like they are playing high school teams in the way they crush their opponents. They are just that far ahead. In the men's game, it is just different in how that is played out. The talent pool is deeper and more diverse in how it is spread out.

If you are a great player in the mens game, you have many choices. If you are a great woman player, you either go to UConn or Tennessee and lately it is just UConn. That means that it will be lopsided for a while.

You have to respect what Geno has done but realize that the landscape is totally different. He stockpiles the best players and can just crush everyone.

I also think these folks that say that they could beat a mens team are not really knowledgable. The size and strength of any Div 1 mens team would overwhelm these women. This is not a knock, just fact and any seasoned fan of the game would tell you. You can't expect a woman to guard a 6'9 guy with muscle and every D1 program has a few of these guys on their teams. All it would turn into is a block shot contest on one end and a dunk contest on the other. Even if the guys were not that athletic, their size would dominate.

No knock on the women, just the way it is. Their game is different.

I would say that to make the womens game more watchable, there needs to be more parody and the shooting and ball handling and passing needs to be better. I see womens games on tv and there are too many fumbled dribbles and passes and too many that sail out of bounds due to a poor pass. The shooting stroke on some of the non UConn teams is still a heave instead of the fluid shooting motion of the guys. I think that needs to get better to be more watchable on tv. There are some games I just cannot watch due to all of the stuff mentioned above.

RE: Coach K vs. Geno

Puhlease. Women's basketball is not nearly as competitive as the men's game. Summitt ran up her record when Tennessee was basically the only thing going in the country. There were other good programs, but Tennessee was the only great one. They've been joined and probably surpassed on that front by UConn. Right now, Geno basically calls what players he wants and signs them to letters of intent. The men's game is far more balanced and no one would ever go for 72 straight wins while playing in a major conference AND scheduling ranked teams from other major conferences regularly in the OOC schedule. This is ridiculous as touting Summitt's 1000 wins as somehow being superior to what Bobby Knight, K, or Dean have accomplished.