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Post by alum on Jun 5, 2024 7:56:06 GMT -5
Per this morning's Courant
UConn women’s basketball announced a five-year contract extension for coach Geno Auriemma on Tuesday that will keep the Huskies’ legend in Storrs through April 2029.
Auriemma’s deal, valued at $18.7 million over its life, will make him the highest-paid college women’s basketball coach in the country in 2024-25. He will make a total of $3.34 million next season, surpassing LSU head coach Kim Mulkey who made $3.26 million in 2023-24. Auriemma’s base salary of $400,000 will increase by $200,000 annually. He made 3.2 million in 2023-24.
“I never said I was gonna retire. Everybody else wanted me to retire and I wasn’t quite ready to do that,” Auriemma said at the UConn Coaches Road Show on Tuesday. “I think every coach here probably at some point feels like obviously there’s an end to this … But in the meantime there’s a lot of kids that come to our school and I don’t care what anybody says, you know, they come to play for us.
“We buy into them, they buy into us. And so, what ends up happening is you keep getting these kids that you feel like, I think I want to be around this kid for a couple years.”
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Post by longsuffering on Jun 5, 2024 8:11:02 GMT -5
Per this morning's Courant UConn women’s basketball announced a five-year contract extension for coach Geno Auriemma on Tuesday that will keep the Huskies’ legend in Storrs through April 2029.
Auriemma’s deal, valued at $18.7 million over its life, will make him the highest-paid college women’s basketball coach in the country in 2024-25. He will make a total of $3.34 million next season, surpassing LSU head coach Kim Mulkey who made $3.26 million in 2023-24. Auriemma’s base salary of $400,000 will increase by $200,000 annually. He made 3.2 million in 2023-24.
“I never said I was gonna retire. Everybody else wanted me to retire and I wasn’t quite ready to do that,” Auriemma said at the UConn Coaches Road Show on Tuesday. “I think every coach here probably at some point feels like obviously there’s an end to this … But in the meantime there’s a lot of kids that come to our school and I don’t care what anybody says, you know, they come to play for us.
“We buy into them, they buy into us. And so, what ends up happening is you keep getting these kids that you feel like, I think I want to be around this kid for a couple years.”Geno at the road show function room: |
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Post by longsuffering on Jun 5, 2024 8:19:10 GMT -5
UConn may or may not be in a slow but steady decline from the absolute top of the mountain, but there is no other coach available that would be a surer bet for a five year contract at UConn right now, so it looks like a fair deal. Hopefully Associate Head Coach "CD" locks in for five also. It's hard to tell if she is 5% of Geno's success or 95% of it.
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Post by hchoops on Jun 5, 2024 8:31:38 GMT -5
His recruiting continues to be great.
On the bench he seems to have lost some of his former acumen.
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Post by bison137 on Jun 5, 2024 8:47:01 GMT -5
His recruiting continues to be great. On the bench he seems to have lost some of his former acumen. I follow UConn very closely, and I haven’t seen any sign that his bench coaching has changed. The main problem for UConn has been the incredibly high number of injuries to key players the last couple of years. They might have won national championships each year had everyone been healthy. |
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Post by hchoops on Jun 5, 2024 9:06:53 GMT -5
I do not watch every game, but he seemed somewhat confused at the ends of some recent games and allowed his top assistant (Daley ?) to do more of time out instructions than I had seen in previous seasons.
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Post by bfoley82 on Jun 5, 2024 11:08:02 GMT -5
His recruiting continues to be great. On the bench he seems to have lost some of his former acumen. I follow UConn very closely, and I haven’t seen any sign that his bench coaching has changed. The main problem for UConn has been the incredibly high number of injuries to key players the last couple of years. They might have won national championships each year had everyone been healthy. Exactly! UConn's bench the last few years has been incredibly short due to so many injuries to the starters and backups that would normally see time. His 2022-2023 team was an incredible coaching job with very little elite talent and they still were very good. |
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Post by bison137 on Jun 5, 2024 11:12:24 GMT -5
I do not watch every game, but he seemed somewhat confused at the ends of some recent games and allowed his top assistant (Daley ?) to do more of time out instructions than I had seen in previous seasons. I watch 25+ UConn games every year, and have done so far more than 25 years, and I really haven’t noticed any difference in how much in-game coaching CD does. He has always relied on her to contribute a lot in certain situations. Looking back at the team 20–30 years ago, Geno was not very good with the X’s and O’s. He actually is better now in that regard than he was in 1995. His strengths are as a recruiter, a motivator, a teacher of fundamentals, and someone who knows how to get the best out of his players. |
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Post by newfieguy74 on Jun 5, 2024 15:54:22 GMT -5
Over the last 20 years Geno has been a huge contributor to the growth of women's college basketball.
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Post by coachrt on Jun 6, 2024 14:30:12 GMT -5
I always thought Geno would bring his good friend BG out of exile and make him a Special Assistant to the head coach or something along those lines. I'm sure BG has some knowledge that he could contribute to a program.
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Post by hchoops on Jun 6, 2024 14:41:01 GMT -5
Geno would not take a chance on the possibility of bad publicity.
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Post by coachrt on Jun 6, 2024 15:55:02 GMT -5
Geno would not take a chance on the possibility of bad publicity. Good point. But can the man ever redeem himself. |
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Post by longsuffering on Jun 6, 2024 16:25:44 GMT -5
He's redeemed in my mind. Although he made some bad mistakes in his lawsuit, a friend of mine who was a former Priest used to tell people under stress from their mistakes, "that's why God put an eraser on the end of a pencil."
Geno is responsible for the reputation of a national program but most other activities should be wide open to BG without issue.
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Post by bison137 on Jun 6, 2024 16:41:47 GMT -5
Geno would not take a chance on the possibility of bad publicity. I don’t think publicity is really the issue. Geno has four assistant coaches who are extremely well regarded. All of them have spent at least seven years with him, and all of them except for Chris Daley have been D1 head coaches. He certainly wouldn’t trade any of those for BG or almost anyone else. |
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Post by longsuffering on Jun 6, 2024 17:19:22 GMT -5
Geno would not take a chance on the possibility of bad publicity. I don’t think publicity is really the issue. Geno has four assistant coaches who are extremely well regarded. All of them have spent at least seven years with him, and all of them except for Chris Daley have been D1 head coaches. He certainly wouldn’t trade any of those for BG or almost anyone else. Ben Kantor has not been a head coach, but your overall point is well taken. There has also been no mentions on the board of BG applying anywhere or being in the mix for any BB position. He may well be very happy doing whatever he is doing. |
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Post by bison137 on Jun 6, 2024 20:07:28 GMT -5
I don’t think publicity is really the issue. Geno has four assistant coaches who are extremely well regarded. All of them have spent at least seven years with him, and all of them except for Chris Daley have been D1 head coaches. He certainly wouldn’t trade any of those for BG or almost anyone else. Ben Kantor has not been a head coach, but your overall point is well taken. There has also been no mentions on the board of BG applying anywhere or being in the mix for any BB position. He may well be very happy doing whatever he is doing. I never said or implied that Ben Kantor had ever been a head coach. I was talking about the other four assistant coaches, all of whom (except Dailey) were multi-year D1 head coaches. Kantor was a long-time video coordinator who Geno gave a new title to when the NCAA started allowing five assistant coaches. But he really doesn’t function much as a true coach. looking at the four real assistant coaches, collectively they have 73 years of experience coaching at UConn and have 23 collective years of experience as D1 head coaches. And then you could add in Auriemma, who has 39 years of head coaching experience on his own. |
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Post by coachrt on Jun 7, 2024 12:52:09 GMT -5
I don’t think publicity is really the issue. Geno has four assistant coaches who are extremely well regarded. All of them have spent at least seven years with him, and all of them except for Chris Daley have been D1 head coaches. He certainly wouldn’t trade any of those for BG or almost anyone else. Ben Kantor has not been a head coach, but your overall point is well taken. There has also been no mentions on the board of BG applying anywhere or being in the mix for any BB position. He may well be very happy doing whatever he is doing. Yea, I never meant that BG would replace any of his assistants. A lot of times some coaches transition into a non-coaching role to assist with scouting etc just to stay involved hence "Special Assistant to the Head Coach" title. |
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Post by purplehaze on Jun 7, 2024 13:20:47 GMT -5
I would bet that BG would love to get any sort of position on a staff at any collegiate level (that didn't involve moving a significant distance) but it is a sad reality that this last chapter at HC will haunt him for a very long time.
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Post by longsuffering on Jun 7, 2024 14:03:37 GMT -5
Ben Kantor has not been a head coach, but your overall point is well taken. There has also been no mentions on the board of BG applying anywhere or being in the mix for any BB position. He may well be very happy doing whatever he is doing. I never said or implied that Ben Kantor had ever been a head coach. I was talking about the other four assistant coaches, all of whom (except Dailey) were multi-year D1 head coaches. Kantor was a long-time video coordinator who Geno gave a new title to when the NCAA started allowing five assistant coaches. But he really doesn’t function much as a true coach. looking at the four real assistant coaches, collectively they have 73 years of experience coaching at UConn and have 23 collective years of experience as D1 head coaches. And then you could add in Auriemma, who has 39 years of head coaching experience on his own. Reading your original post I assumed Geno had four assistant coaches. It's amazing he has five. I am an advocate for two assistants for a total of three coaches for 13-14 students. If it was a level playing field of three throughout the NCAA, competition would remain the same and the less pampered athletes would be more similar to the rest of the students. Reality is going in the other direction. |
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