As for who could possibly fill in for Auriemma once he finally hangs up his coaching whistle ... Rizzotti told us UConn should seriously consider Diana Taurasi.
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00:00It's going to be very hard. I mean, I don't want to see him leave UConn anytime soon,
00:05but we all know that will come. Who do you think? I don't know if you know anyone that
00:10can fill his shoes when he does leave.
00:13Yeah, we we actually talk about this, the alums a lot because I don't think we have
00:18an answer, right? I don't think anybody thinks that in any way that that would be a desirable
00:23job right to have to follow the the greatest of all time, someone who's done everything
00:28that there is to do at at UConn. Right. I think that's hard. And he's done it in a place
00:33that nobody wanted to go go to before the 1980s. Nobody wanted to go to UConn. And so
00:41I think players have continued to go there because of him, because of the culture that
00:45he's created. So I don't know how that continues to be a draw after he leaves. Right. I don't
00:51know. So I don't know who replaces him or who has the courage to actually take on that
00:57task, because it is certainly a tall one.
01:00Would you ever consider it? Or even I know Diana Taurasi was there last weekend, another
01:04UConn greeting like you're retiring soon. Do you think you or her?
01:09She probably could pull it off. She has the, you know, the star power. You know, having
01:17just finished her six Olympics, everybody in the world knows who she is. I mean, she's
01:22considered the greatest of all time as a player in so many people's eyes. So if anyone
01:28has the magnetism that he has, the credibility and reputation in women's basketball, she's
01:38about as close as they get. If I was going to do it, it would have had to be like 20
01:43years ago.
01:44Never say never, though, Jen. Never say never.
01:48I like where I'm at.