Geno Auriemma has been doing this for a long time.
The University of Connecticut women’s basketball coach is one of the pillars of the sport.
He gets another marquee appearance on Sunday in the 2025 national championship game against South Carolina and the Gamecocks’ own storied coach, Dawn Staley.
The Huskies have won 11 national titles under Auriemma, and remarkably, they’ve only fallen in the national championship game once.
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When will Geno Auriemma retire?
Geno Auriemma said Saturday that, “I’ve quit five times every year.”
He hasn’t yet announced an official retirement timeline, though.
“I’ll go to practice and on my way home, I go, that’s it. I’m not going to go to practice tomorrow. I’m calling in sick for life. I’m out,” Auriemma explained of his thought process.
But the people around him push back.
“They go, you can’t do that,” he said. “You have to have a victory tour and go around and get rocking chairs from every team in the league. I say no, I’m out. And then come to practice the next day and things will get better. Then three weeks later I quit again.”
Auriemma explained how the NCAA Tournament is different, though.
“On the way here, I go, man, I could do this for another four, five…
