Tripping Out

by Sean Keeley on Jan 21, 2009 1:01 AM EST

The ruling has come down from high in TripGenoGate, and it is fair and keeping with what you expect to be the punishment for wanting to trip Geno Auriemma:

Big East Commissioner Michael Tranghese announced Tuesday that "no action will be taken by the conference" in Saturday's handshake-line incident between Connecticut women's basketball coach Geno Auriemma and Syracuse player Nicole Michael.

When initially asked about the incident, Auriemma smugly tried to plead that he had no idea where it all came from. Today on ESPN, he came clean...and still came off like a smug c***knocker:

"I probably shouldn't have, you know, taken an opportunity to say, 'Hey, if you're going to be in the shake-hands line, you know, have a little more respect for adults.' I probably should have just kept my mouth shut and not said anything. Then, when I left, there was a little toe dancing it seemed like. I don't know what happened, but it was nothing more than that."

I didn't actually see the video of Geno saying this but I imagine he was smiling at the time. Ugh.

My favorite part of the article has to be Coach Q's reaction to the decision.

SU coach Quentin Hillsman released a statement Monday saying that he didn't believe talking about the issue would be beneficial to either university.

While releasing that statement, Quentin was holding a lead pipe in one hand and smacking it repeatedly into the other hand. Wanna make something of it????

Didn't think so.

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What the Hell

This adding “gate” to every controversy thing is getting real old fast. The damn hotel was named Watergate! That is why it is referred to as the Watergate scandal. Every scandal now is _____gate. Stop!

by noro on Jan 21, 2009 9:51 AM EST reply actions

I like this game

You can even play at home, like: “Cody-makes-sexy-time-with-scarlett-johansson-gate”

by Cody K on Jan 21, 2009 12:03 PM EST up reply actions

Because it fires you up so much

is the very reason I do it

by Sean Keeley on Jan 21, 2009 12:12 PM EST up reply actions

Fire Up Noro-gate!

Did Nunes do it on purpose. Was he mocking Noro? Oh, the drama!

by voteprime on Jan 21, 2009 12:47 PM EST up reply actions

Scoop's shirts

should we start calling that Stripegate?

by Otis Hill on Jan 21, 2009 12:13 PM EST up reply actions

HorizontallyStripedPoloGate

by Sean Keeley on Jan 21, 2009 12:42 PM EST up reply actions

I believe...

the video of Geno’s presser after the game is up on Syracuse.com below.

http://videos.syracuse.com/post-standard/2009/01/connecticut_coach_geno_auriemm.html

The guy just excretes smugness. I guess it’s a result of being a tripple threat guy: 1)Being in Connecticut, specifically at UConn, 2) winning national championships, and 3) being a total and utter douche.

by Orange::44 on Jan 21, 2009 9:52 AM EST reply actions

They guy

got in her face, she dosent look like she said a damn thing. Started yelling at another teams player… very classy for a HOF coach, and then ALMOST tripped when he made a second pass to keep berating her. 1) he should have never gotten that close to her but he felt the need to keep chewing her out 2) he didnt even fall, Im sure if she ment to trip him he would have gone down.

Cool Geno, DB.

by ryanwk628 on Jan 21, 2009 10:09 AM EST reply actions

Not to mention the fact that she clearly does slap his hand and the hands of the players both in front of and behind him. It frightens me that anyone would send their daughter to Geno Auriemma.

(It’s possible that I have an irrational hatred for him… No, no I think it’s entirely rational)

by Orange22 on Jan 22, 2009 9:13 PM EST reply actions