{"id":252577,"date":"2025-09-25T02:47:10","date_gmt":"2025-09-25T02:47:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/252577\/"},"modified":"2025-09-25T02:47:10","modified_gmt":"2025-09-25T02:47:10","slug":"you-feel-bad-for-the-kid-when-geno-auriemma-pointed-out-the-difference-between-supportive-and-crazy-parents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/252577\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cYou Feel Bad for the Kid\u201d: When Geno Auriemma Pointed Out the Difference Between Supportive and \u201cCrazy\u201d Parents"},"content":{"rendered":"

UConn Huskies coach Geno Auriemma<\/a> once talked about the parents of his players, diving deep on how to differentiate the supportive ones from the crazy kind. In a video posted by the \u201cWhat Drives Winning\u201d channel on YouTube back in Jan. 2018, coach Auriemma was being interviewed and sparked discussions on his coaching career, the experience he has gained and the style of mentoring through the years.<\/p>\n

In one instance of the interview, host Bred Ledbetter asked Auriemma how he can tell whether or not a certain parent is overstepping boundaries in terms of being supportive of their child, to being a negative factor on the stands. Auriemma then offered two ways to know this, one that is more subtle and the other that is more apparent.<\/p>\n

Read More: \u201cIt\u2019s the Worst Generation of All Time\u201d: When Geno Auriemma Didn\u2019t Hold Back on the Root Cause of Youth Sports Issues<\/a><\/p>\n

\u201cHow can you tell? Well, if you take your eyes off what\u2019s going on on the court and just look up in the stands, the guys that are going crazy; and you go, \u2018Whose father is that?,\u2019 and now it\u2019s also, \u2018Whose mother\u2019s that?\u2019 Everybody in there, there would be 400 coaches watching, you know, an AAU game, and everybody will go, \u2018That\u2019s that kid\u2019s family,\u2019 and everybody knows, you feel bad for the kid. So that\u2019s an obvious way, that they\u2019re nuts in the stands,\u201d he explained<\/a>. (6:20)<\/p>\n

Auriemma goes on to speak about how the other major path is \u201cthe way the kid responds to what happens on the floor.\u201d Over-the-top displays are made each time something goes against the player. \u201cThey pout, they make faces, they yell at the refs.\u201d, Auriemma said. \u201cYou know, a kid on their team misses a pass and they b*tch and moan. You know that they get taken out of the game and they go to the end of the bench, they get a towel, put it on their head like unless they\u2019re playing and scoring, they don\u2019t care,\u201d Auriemma added.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

Throughout his lengthy tenure with\u00a0the Huskies program, now spanning nearly four decades since he took over in 1985, Auriemma has produced some of the best players the women\u2019s game has to offer, including\u00a0Diana Taurasi<\/a>, Sue Bird,\u00a0and Breanna Stewart. The now 71-year-old will enter his 41st year at the helm of the UConn program in the upcoming 2025-26 college hoops season.<\/p>\n

Geno Auriemma Says He Runs The UConn Huskies Program Like A Catholic School<\/p>\n

Later on his interview with Bred Ledbetter of What Drives Winning, Geno Auriemma revealed a coaching style that he has stuck with since the start of his UConn Huskies<\/a> journey that has helped him throughout his tenure. Auriemma then asserted that this is still how he coaches in the present time, as it is a system that has worked well with both players and their parents.<\/p>\n

\u201cI said, \u2018I\u2019m going to run this program like a Catholic school program because that\u2019s the only thing I knew.\u2019 That\u2019s where I went to school, that\u2019s where I coached. I coached girls in high school, Catholic high school, I coached boys. And we could do that. We could say, \u2018If you don\u2019t do this, you\u2019re not playing.\u2019 It was easy, and they listened, and you didn\u2019t get any calls from parents because they knew,\u201d he shared. (7:55)<\/p>\n

Also Read: \u201cI Don\u2019t Care How Good You Are\u201d: When Geno Auriemma Made It Clear Talent Alone Won\u2019t Earn Play Time in UConn<\/a><\/p>\n

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