foobar75
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I wasn't sure which forum to post this, and it's a fairly general topic, so I'll do it here.
I don't follow women's basketball at all, but I came across this statement from the UConn coach. Major kudos to him for saying this. I wish more coaches and prominent sports figures would have to guts to come out and re-enforce this, so we can start to debunk the false myth of black supremacy in certain sports.
Connecticut Coach Geno Auriemma offered a disclaimer before his team's practice session Saturday. Then he offered his opinion on why some may view Stanford, Connecticut's Final Four opponent Sunday, as soft.
"I know this is going to get played out the wrong way," said Auriemma, who was named the Associated Press women's coach of the year for guiding Connecticut to a 37-0 record. "But I'm going to say it anyway. And I know I'm going to get criticized for this.
"White kids are always looked upon as being soft. So Stanford's got a tremendous amount of really good players who for whatever reason, because they don't look like Tina Charles or Maya Moore, the perception out there is going to be, well, they must be soft.
"Well, I think that's a bunch of bull. I watched them play and nobody goes harder to the boards. Nobody takes more charges. Nobody runs the floor as hard. Those kids are as tough as any of the kids in the country. But people on the sports world like to make judgments on people by how they look. And it's grossly unfair."
I don't follow women's basketball at all, but I came across this statement from the UConn coach. Major kudos to him for saying this. I wish more coaches and prominent sports figures would have to guts to come out and re-enforce this, so we can start to debunk the false myth of black supremacy in certain sports.
Connecticut Coach Geno Auriemma offered a disclaimer before his team's practice session Saturday. Then he offered his opinion on why some may view Stanford, Connecticut's Final Four opponent Sunday, as soft.
"I know this is going to get played out the wrong way," said Auriemma, who was named the Associated Press women's coach of the year for guiding Connecticut to a 37-0 record. "But I'm going to say it anyway. And I know I'm going to get criticized for this.
"White kids are always looked upon as being soft. So Stanford's got a tremendous amount of really good players who for whatever reason, because they don't look like Tina Charles or Maya Moore, the perception out there is going to be, well, they must be soft.
"Well, I think that's a bunch of bull. I watched them play and nobody goes harder to the boards. Nobody takes more charges. Nobody runs the floor as hard. Those kids are as tough as any of the kids in the country. But people on the sports world like to make judgments on people by how they look. And it's grossly unfair."
