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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Thanks for joining us. It is the Women's Basketball Coaches Show.
Bob Joyce Genoor, I'm alive here at the Hollow in
Manchester and Manchester Country Club.
Speaker 3 (00:07):
You play here at all?
Speaker 2 (00:08):
Yeah, I loved I really like this golf course. It's
always in great shape. They do a phenomenal job here
because it gets you know, a lot of people play,
A lot of people play here, and a lot of
people don't know that this is not, you know, exclusively
a private club. You know, people out there in the
(00:30):
world like, oh, Manchester Country Club, you've got to be
a member to go there. No, you don't, you know,
whether you want to come here for dinner, you want
to play golf, you know, you know it's a gem
you I mean, anywhere you look around in Connecticut, you know,
golf course available to the general public. This nice is
very very rare to find. And you know, so it's
it's great playing here. It's a lot of fun and
(00:52):
people are great. Jordan de pro here is fantastic and
a lot of great members. They have great membership here.
Speaker 3 (01:03):
Like Megars. They're cheap, you know, some of these guys
like Megar's.
Speaker 1 (01:08):
But you know, wa is that Pat over there that
is Pat.
Speaker 3 (01:11):
That is Pat right there. Yes, it is.
Speaker 2 (01:15):
Pat is the woman that was in charge of the
search committee when I got hired.
Speaker 3 (01:19):
So I'm here because of Pat.
Speaker 1 (01:21):
Here you go, Jack, Here you go, Pat Meser McNett.
Jack Hughes is back on staff here Jack C I
was watching was we went to the Paul game. We
went at the Paul game in Chicago. That's where I saw,
I mean, was behind the bench and yeah, you're Ben
Gordon and it's like, hey, that's Jack Hughes.
Speaker 2 (01:37):
I think he's yeah, yeah, I went when when I
came here to interview Pat. I had met Pat when
she was the coach at Penn State and I was
assistant coach at Saint Joseph's and we played down at
Saint Joe's one Saturday afternoon or something, I forget.
Speaker 3 (01:54):
What it was.
Speaker 2 (01:55):
And we had a we had a good team, you know,
they were really good and we had a good team
and we won. We and it was a big win,
like you know in Pennsylvania. You beat Penn State, that's
a big win, you know, because Penn State's Penn State,
and they were really good and Pat was I was
a great coach. But we won, We won that day
(02:15):
and and I remember going across the street there to Kavanaugh's.
Speaker 3 (02:20):
It's a great bar there. They had great.
Speaker 2 (02:22):
Roastby sandwiches, and we went over there and they came
over and I felt so bad because you know, it's hard.
It's hard when you go out after a game and
you know, but you know, we got to know each
other pretty well. And then when this job opened, then
I came up here. One of the reasons why I
thought I had a shot, I had a chance at
getting the job was because I knew Pat and she
(02:47):
knew me, and I knew people that knew d and
my ad had seen at the University of Virginia was
president the n c a a A and John Toner have
been president of the n c a A. You know,
those guys all know each other and travel in the
same circles. So and and that's that's funny. A friend
(03:14):
of mine told me when I came up here for
the interview. They said, listen, there's going to be somebody
in that on that committee that doesn't want you to
get the job. So you need to find out who
that person is, and you need to win them over.
I said, okay, and he goes and there's going to
be somebody on that committee that wants you to get
the job, and you need to make sure that you
(03:35):
use them to kind of help you fight the person
that doesn't want you to get the job. It was
really interesting, you know, because I had, you know, I had,
I had not been through that kind of stuff often.
Speaker 3 (03:46):
But when I came up.
Speaker 2 (03:47):
Here, it was just so, it was it was perfect,
that it was so bad, that the thing that was
the only positive that was here was the people were humble,
believably good, unbelievably great, unbelievably great, and committed and passionate,
and that it was so bad that it was like
(04:08):
desperation too, like we need to get good, we need
to get better. We think we can be good. We
think we can be better. You know, women's soccer is good,
women's field hockey is good. This is a really good
athletic department for women's sports, and women's basketball should be good.
So I thought, you know, it was a perfect opportunity.
They wanted us to be good, and you know, we
had great people here, and you know, forty years later,
(04:32):
here we are.
Speaker 1 (04:33):
Yeah, Pat, correct me if I'm wrong. Pat also hired
Jen Right at Hartford.
Speaker 2 (04:38):
Yeah, Pat hired Jen Jen Rizzotti and I used to
babysit a time with Pat's son, Danny, who now runs
the Number one restaurant. He voted number one restaurant in Connecticut.
If you've ever been to the Oyster Club and Mystic
Danny Meiser, that's Pat Son. He's like one of the
(04:59):
one of the best chefs and restaurant owners in the
entire state of Connecticut.
Speaker 3 (05:03):
So if you're ever out there, yeah, chaon, that's dinner
for us. We're there.
Speaker 1 (05:08):
Injury update, how's your injured crew doing? Morgan Ice, Yanna.
Speaker 2 (05:16):
Yanna practiced a little bit today, so that's a good thing.
Yanna practiced a little bit today.
Speaker 3 (05:25):
Jenna got hit in the head with a pass. Was
it a pass or was it a shot? What was it?
What happened? Pass?
Speaker 2 (05:35):
Oh, somebody threw a pass and Jenna, I guess wasn't
looking or something, or it was a bad pass. Anytime
a pass hit somebody in the head, it's.
Speaker 1 (05:43):
A bad pass unless it goes through your hands.
Speaker 2 (05:46):
Unless it goes through well, we've had that too. It
comes up to catch the ball and and goes like
it's and ball hits him right.
Speaker 3 (05:53):
In the forehead.
Speaker 2 (05:53):
I never we have it on film, thank god, so
we'll be watching it forever. But in this case, Jenna
was just trying to play defense over there and somebody
throw pass and just whacked it right in the head.
And so you know, we got Jana. Janna can't play yet.
She she she's doing non contact stuff right now.
Speaker 3 (06:15):
But Jenna questionable for tomorrow.
Speaker 2 (06:19):
Okay, in case you know, but I'm having dinner with
Tarta Mellow tonight, so I'm going to tell them anyway.
Speaker 3 (06:24):
It's not like it's a secret.
Speaker 1 (06:26):
Yeah, what about this Saint John's team, very different team
than a year ago, a lot of transfers.
Speaker 2 (06:32):
Well that's what happens that I think at a lot
of programs in our in our league, I think they
they have two things that they have to do. One,
they have to keep their good players, right because a
lot of these schools don't have a lot of money
in today's world. You know, it's all about money for
some of these kids. So if you get a really
(06:52):
good player, like, uh, the guard of Villanova, if we
weren't in the league, she would probably be the best
player in the league. The guard of Osco. Yeah, she's
really good and she had a great freshman year. Last
year she made first team All Big East and they
were very fortunate they did the right thing.
Speaker 3 (07:09):
They were able to keep her because they lost.
Speaker 2 (07:12):
Lucy Olsen before that. The kid will die, which was
a really dumb move. To be honest with you, it's
really dumb right there. I mean, it's not about doing
all right. I think it's about you know, you grew
up fifteen minutes from Villanova. You know, it's your dream
come true to play at Villanova. And if there wasn't
(07:33):
a lot of money being offered, or if there wasn't
you know.
Speaker 3 (07:36):
This.
Speaker 2 (07:38):
Idea of you have to be at a certain kind
of school. You know, you got to be in the
power for school, you got to be in this in that.
So it's made it hard for a lot of the
teams in our league. So Joe, Joe knows he's got
to go out and get kids in the portal. He's
got to get you know, he's got to keep his
kids if he can. So it's a it's a constant
(08:03):
putting together a new team. You know, you're not going
to see Saint John's come out here in three years
and have the same team for three years in a row.
Speaker 3 (08:11):
Those days are probably over all right, but they're good.
Speaker 2 (08:14):
I mean they they shoot the ball grade you know,
they attack you, they run, you know. He he has
more plays than Rogers and Hammerstein. So I don't know
what that was. Jose, Oh, nobody has more plays than Jose.
I just want to clarify that, because he's got two languages.
He's got a hundred plays that he calls in English
(08:35):
and he's got a hundred plays that he calls in Spanish,
so I have no idea what he's talking.
Speaker 1 (08:39):
All right, more with Gino. We're alive into the Hollow
in Manchester at Manchester Country Club. Back in a minute
here on Learfield.
Speaker 3 (08:44):
Stay with us
Thanks for joining us. It is the Women's Basketball Coaches Show.
Bob Joyce Genoor, I'm alive here at the Hollow in
Manchester and Manchester Country Club.
Speaker 3 (00:07):
You play here at all?
Speaker 2 (00:08):
Yeah, I loved I really like this golf course. It's
always in great shape. They do a phenomenal job here
because it gets you know, a lot of people play,
A lot of people play here, and a lot of
people don't know that this is not, you know, exclusively
a private club. You know, people out there in the
(00:30):
world like, oh, Manchester Country Club, you've got to be
a member to go there. No, you don't, you know,
whether you want to come here for dinner, you want
to play golf, you know, you know it's a gem
you I mean, anywhere you look around in Connecticut, you know,
golf course available to the general public. This nice is
very very rare to find. And you know, so it's
it's great playing here. It's a lot of fun and
(00:52):
people are great. Jordan de pro here is fantastic and
a lot of great members. They have great membership here.
Speaker 3 (01:03):
Like Megars. They're cheap, you know, some of these guys
like Megar's.
Speaker 1 (01:08):
But you know, wa is that Pat over there that
is Pat.
Speaker 3 (01:11):
That is Pat right there. Yes, it is.
Speaker 2 (01:15):
Pat is the woman that was in charge of the
search committee when I got hired.
Speaker 3 (01:19):
So I'm here because of Pat.
Speaker 1 (01:21):
Here you go, Jack, Here you go, Pat Meser McNett.
Jack Hughes is back on staff here Jack C I
was watching was we went to the Paul game. We
went at the Paul game in Chicago. That's where I saw,
I mean, was behind the bench and yeah, you're Ben
Gordon and it's like, hey, that's Jack Hughes.
Speaker 2 (01:37):
I think he's yeah, yeah, I went when when I
came here to interview Pat. I had met Pat when
she was the coach at Penn State and I was
assistant coach at Saint Joseph's and we played down at
Saint Joe's one Saturday afternoon or something, I forget.
Speaker 3 (01:54):
What it was.
Speaker 2 (01:55):
And we had a we had a good team, you know,
they were really good and we had a good team
and we won. We and it was a big win,
like you know in Pennsylvania. You beat Penn State, that's
a big win, you know, because Penn State's Penn State,
and they were really good and Pat was I was
a great coach. But we won, We won that day
(02:15):
and and I remember going across the street there to Kavanaugh's.
Speaker 3 (02:20):
It's a great bar there. They had great.
Speaker 2 (02:22):
Roastby sandwiches, and we went over there and they came
over and I felt so bad because you know, it's hard.
It's hard when you go out after a game and
you know, but you know, we got to know each
other pretty well. And then when this job opened, then
I came up here. One of the reasons why I
thought I had a shot, I had a chance at
getting the job was because I knew Pat and she
(02:47):
knew me, and I knew people that knew d and
my ad had seen at the University of Virginia was
president the n c a a A and John Toner have
been president of the n c a A. You know,
those guys all know each other and travel in the
same circles. So and and that's that's funny. A friend
(03:14):
of mine told me when I came up here for
the interview. They said, listen, there's going to be somebody
in that on that committee that doesn't want you to
get the job. So you need to find out who
that person is, and you need to win them over.
I said, okay, and he goes and there's going to
be somebody on that committee that wants you to get
the job, and you need to make sure that you
(03:35):
use them to kind of help you fight the person
that doesn't want you to get the job. It was
really interesting, you know, because I had, you know, I had,
I had not been through that kind of stuff often.
Speaker 3 (03:46):
But when I came up.
Speaker 2 (03:47):
Here, it was just so, it was it was perfect,
that it was so bad, that the thing that was
the only positive that was here was the people were humble,
believably good, unbelievably great, unbelievably great, and committed and passionate,
and that it was so bad that it was like
(04:08):
desperation too, like we need to get good, we need
to get better. We think we can be good. We
think we can be better. You know, women's soccer is good,
women's field hockey is good. This is a really good
athletic department for women's sports, and women's basketball should be good.
So I thought, you know, it was a perfect opportunity.
They wanted us to be good, and you know, we
had great people here, and you know, forty years later,
(04:32):
here we are.
Speaker 1 (04:33):
Yeah, Pat, correct me if I'm wrong. Pat also hired
Jen Right at Hartford.
Speaker 2 (04:38):
Yeah, Pat hired Jen Jen Rizzotti and I used to
babysit a time with Pat's son, Danny, who now runs
the Number one restaurant. He voted number one restaurant in Connecticut.
If you've ever been to the Oyster Club and Mystic
Danny Meiser, that's Pat Son. He's like one of the
(04:59):
one of the best chefs and restaurant owners in the
entire state of Connecticut.
Speaker 3 (05:03):
So if you're ever out there, yeah, chaon, that's dinner
for us. We're there.
Speaker 1 (05:08):
Injury update, how's your injured crew doing? Morgan Ice, Yanna.
Speaker 2 (05:16):
Yanna practiced a little bit today, so that's a good thing.
Yanna practiced a little bit today.
Speaker 3 (05:25):
Jenna got hit in the head with a pass. Was
it a pass or was it a shot? What was it?
What happened? Pass?
Speaker 2 (05:35):
Oh, somebody threw a pass and Jenna, I guess wasn't
looking or something, or it was a bad pass. Anytime
a pass hit somebody in the head, it's.
Speaker 1 (05:43):
A bad pass unless it goes through your hands.
Speaker 2 (05:46):
Unless it goes through well, we've had that too. It
comes up to catch the ball and and goes like
it's and ball hits him right.
Speaker 3 (05:53):
In the forehead.
Speaker 2 (05:53):
I never we have it on film, thank god, so
we'll be watching it forever. But in this case, Jenna
was just trying to play defense over there and somebody
throw pass and just whacked it right in the head.
And so you know, we got Jana. Janna can't play yet.
She she she's doing non contact stuff right now.
Speaker 3 (06:15):
But Jenna questionable for tomorrow.
Speaker 2 (06:19):
Okay, in case you know, but I'm having dinner with
Tarta Mellow tonight, so I'm going to tell them anyway.
Speaker 3 (06:24):
It's not like it's a secret.
Speaker 1 (06:26):
Yeah, what about this Saint John's team, very different team
than a year ago, a lot of transfers.
Speaker 2 (06:32):
Well that's what happens that I think at a lot
of programs in our in our league, I think they
they have two things that they have to do. One,
they have to keep their good players, right because a
lot of these schools don't have a lot of money
in today's world. You know, it's all about money for
some of these kids. So if you get a really
(06:52):
good player, like, uh, the guard of Villanova, if we
weren't in the league, she would probably be the best
player in the league. The guard of Osco. Yeah, she's
really good and she had a great freshman year. Last
year she made first team All Big East and they
were very fortunate they did the right thing.
Speaker 3 (07:09):
They were able to keep her because they lost.
Speaker 2 (07:12):
Lucy Olsen before that. The kid will die, which was
a really dumb move. To be honest with you, it's
really dumb right there. I mean, it's not about doing
all right. I think it's about you know, you grew
up fifteen minutes from Villanova. You know, it's your dream
come true to play at Villanova. And if there wasn't
(07:33):
a lot of money being offered, or if there wasn't
you know.
Speaker 3 (07:36):
This.
Speaker 2 (07:38):
Idea of you have to be at a certain kind
of school. You know, you got to be in the
power for school, you got to be in this in that.
So it's made it hard for a lot of the
teams in our league. So Joe, Joe knows he's got
to go out and get kids in the portal. He's
got to get you know, he's got to keep his
kids if he can. So it's a it's a constant
(08:03):
putting together a new team. You know, you're not going
to see Saint John's come out here in three years
and have the same team for three years in a row.
Speaker 3 (08:11):
Those days are probably over all right, but they're good.
Speaker 2 (08:14):
I mean they they shoot the ball grade you know,
they attack you, they run, you know. He he has
more plays than Rogers and Hammerstein. So I don't know
what that was. Jose, Oh, nobody has more plays than Jose.
I just want to clarify that, because he's got two languages.
He's got a hundred plays that he calls in English
(08:35):
and he's got a hundred plays that he calls in Spanish,
so I have no idea what he's talking.
Speaker 1 (08:39):
All right, more with Gino. We're alive into the Hollow
in Manchester at Manchester Country Club. Back in a minute
here on Learfield.
Speaker 3 (08:44):
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