One day after a local “reporter” attacked UConn Huskies men’s basketball coach Jim Calhoun about his salary, UConn women’s coach Geno Auriemma defended his men’s counterpart.
“I think it’s unfair in this setting and I would venture to say it’s unfair in any setting,” Auriemma said.
“How do you answer questions about money, about your personal life?” he asked.
“If everybody in the university agreed that, let’s all give back this and we can save this, this, this, and this program, then somebody’s got a plan,” Auriemma said. “But just to ask that question and say, ‘Yeah, OK, because I make a lot I should give some of that back,’ that’s a really hard question to deal with.”
I do wonder if the “reporter” had asked Geno the question, what he would have said. Odds are they may have had to hold him back.
Good to see Geno backup Calhoun here because they are right, a postgame press conference is not the place to be discussing such matters.
Auriemma comes to Calhoun’s defense [USA Today]
