About a week ago UConn head women’s basketball coach Geno Auriemma ranked among the most beloved and respected coaches in sports. But after a pretty poor display of sportsmanship in a Final Four loss to South Carolina’s Dawn Staley, people have done some digging and found that some of the true greats of the sport just couldn’t stand him.
The founder and chair of the Geno Auriemma Hate Club, so to speak, was the late-great Tennessee basketball coach Pat Summitt. Her Lady Vols battled Auriemma’s Huskies countless times, including over a half-dozen meetings in the NCAA Tournament.
In her 2013 book Sum It Up, Summitt made it abundantly clear that she disliked Auriemma for a slew of reasons ranging from his “combative” nature in front of the media, his penchant for swearing out loud and his constant complaining…