Geno Auriemma Talks College Athletes Getting Paid, Olympics & Paige Bueckers
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Takeline
4.8 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 9 December 2018
⏱️ 81 minutes
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Summary
Happy 4th! This week on Takeline, Jason and Renee are joined by women’s basketball legend and UConn head coach Geno Auriemma. He discusses the recent NCAA ruling that college athletes can make money off their image and likeness, Paige Bueckers historic freshman season, and the Olympic committee's decision not to select Nneka Ogwumike to the U.S. Women’s National Basketball team roster. Later in the show, Jason and Renee play a game of two truths and a lie, then it’s an independence day themed Take Survivor!
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| 0:00.0 | Hey everyone today's another special episode of Take Line that we taped last week for the holiday break |
| 0:04.4 | we have an incredible episode of Take Survivor plus Renee and I play a game that tests our knowledge of each other and we are joined by |
| 0:11.1 | legendary head coach of the Yukon women's basketball team. |
| 0:14.4 | Gino Ariama, it's a lot of fun. |
| 0:17.3 | Hope you enjoy it. |
| 0:18.1 | Let's go! joining us now he's the head coach of the 11 time national champion |
| 0:36.2 | you called Huskies women's basketball team he's led the US women's national |
| 0:41.6 | basketball team to two gold medals at the Olympics |
| 0:44.4 | and that's literally just two of the things on his long list of accomplishments. |
| 0:48.4 | But the most important thing is that he is my coach forever coach Ariama you know I love you the |
| 0:54.8 | godfather welcome to take line and coach now this year we know we had another |
| 0:59.6 | great season got bumped out of the final four by Arizona and current dream |
| 1:04.2 | rookie that we drafted Ari McDonald but how does the blue look for next |
| 1:08.9 | season what are you expecting from your star page we know she had surgery so you know how she coming along and what are you |
| 1:15.1 | expected next year? Well I'm expecting them to grow up a little bit and not be so immature. |
| 1:29.0 | You know, we played Baylor last year, right, in the final eight game. |
| 1:33.8 | So that game took a lot out of us. |
| 1:36.2 | It was a physical game, you know, it was a tough game. |
| 1:39.7 | And after we won that game, |
| 1:42.0 | some of the younger guys, |
| 1:43.9 | and maybe it's some of the older guys too, |
| 1:45.7 | you know, we just have it, |
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