The thing Pat will always have OVER Geno is all of her success/wins came from playing the toughest schedule every year. That speaks for itself and always will.
Except, of course, for all of those years when the Big East was the toughest conference in the land.
Even these days the SEC has one reasonably good team in SCar and a pile of teams that UConn would make hash of with MOV's between 30 and 60+. Does anyone really believe that UConn would have any more trouble with Florida, Auburn or Bama than it does with Cincy, SMU or Houston? What about UTenn, Miss St. or Kentucky... Is there even a rational argument to be made that these teams could give UConn any more trouble than S. Florida, Tulsa, or Temple when UConn walloped your best by 24?
Baylor matched UTenn's grand total of 'two' NC's since 2000. That right 2 of 15. What's UConn's count? Its 8 of 15... more than half of the NC's won since 2000 have been won by just one team... UConn. In terms of conferences... the conference that UConn was in had 15 teams of the 30 possible slots available to be in the championship game...
That's right... a full half of the teams that have played in the NC since the beginning of this millennia have either been conference mates of UConn or UConn itself... so where's the 'powerful' SEC? Only five of the available NC game slots went to SEC teams in all those 15 years, all UTenn btw, and they lost 3 of those... not a very fear instilling performance by the SEC to say the least.
Heck, most of the SEC teams are rough and tumble mid major cupcakes that play bump, thump, crash, and chuck. At times, it wouldn't surprise me to see a hockey game break out at a SEC women's bball game. No wonder so many UTenn fans are obsessed with the refs when the SEC game is so dependent on the official's intervention. For those who don't know... constant fouling is not a requirement in the rulebook.
In your private moments away from this forum, most of you already know that if UConn was in the SEC this year, there would no difference in their overall record, their team/individual stats and their MOVs.
The once mighty SEC is a mere shadow of it's former self because it never made the leap into the modern game. It's still a star based conference hoping to defeat today's team based ball. Good luck with that...That may get you into the NCAAs but it won't get you very far these days. Again, just look at your team's and conferences's record of the last several years to understand that.
Staley is the only SEC coach who may have come to understand that the game has evolved beyond the vintage game that defined UTenn's best years. It's even obvious to the most casual observer that the game that it has passed by UTenn and the rest of the SEC.
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