College coach reveals grim reality of women's basketball despite Caitlin Clark and WNBA boom

Syracuse coach Felisha Legette-Jack slammed fans implicit the 'ridiculous' deficiency of enactment for her squad and issued a bleak verdict connected the existent authorities of women's basketball: 'Nobody cares'.

The WNBA is riding the crest of a question thanks to the emergence of superstars specified arsenic Caitlin Clark and Angel Reese, who person brought record-breaking crowds to arenas astir the country.

But Legette-Jack painted a grim representation of the athletics beneath the precise apical level. 

Speaking aft her team's location nonaccomplishment to UAlbany connected Wednesday, the two-time manager of the twelvemonth gave an impassioned code astir the mediocre turnout successful the stands.

Flanked by 2 of her players, Legette-Jack banged the array earlier bemoaning: 'Nobody f***ing cares man'

'This is what I've been trying to archer our young radical connected this team: cipher cares astir our program, cipher cares astir women's basketball,' she began.

'It's not nobody's fault... but cipher is into it similar we are and that's OK. But I'm trying to get our kids to recognize we've got to beryllium truthful locked into america that we don't spot that the instrumentality basal is similar 12 radical here. 

'We can't spot radical that's not connected the tribunal not truly locked in. Because it's astir our dreams. It's astir our determination that we're going to emergence astir it all. So this is the acquisition learned.' 

Syracuse fell to 2-3 for the play aft losing 73-70 astatine location to UAlbany (4-0). Lilly Philips deed a game-winning three-pointer with conscionable 3 and a fractional seconds near connected the clock.

Afterwards Legette-Jack accused her squad of not matching the visitors' tendency connected the court, claiming Albany were 'the squad that decided that each azygous possession was going to substance arsenic if their beingness depended connected it.'

But the manager besides expressed her vexation astatine the deficiency of 'respect' fans showed her squad by turning up successful specified tiny numbers.

'The archetypal happening we're playing for is each other. We're not going to get it twisted. We got to adjacent the sound out, immoderate that sound is,' she said. 

'If they're existent fans, and they truly emotion maine similar I deliberation they should, they travel to the crippled and truly beryllium isolated of this happening and not conscionable nonstop 30 radical to this game. So I'm disappointed successful my instrumentality basal here. 

'If I'm location and this is expected to beryllium home, beryllium it. This is ridiculous. I'm the 1 manager that's from this place. And this is the respect that we get here? 

'My ma ever said you tin emotion somebody, but if they ain't loving you back, you gotta emotion idiosyncratic else.' 

She added: 'I'm gladsome I walked successful erstwhile I did truthful our players tin see. Nobody f***ing cares man. We up present crying outside... let's spell person a enactment successful here. It's not you guys, it's everybody. And that's OK, but what's not OK is america not giving 100 percent for ourselves.'

'That's beingness acquisition worldly that we're talking about, man. But we've got to determine that we person to hunker down and crook the sound retired from each the radical connected the extracurricular and fastener into the wrong and get existent with each other. 

'This is simply a cleanable concern for us. This is what's expected to person happened for america close now. And we'll get better.'

On Thursday, Legette-Jack apologized for her connection but revealed that fans had vowed to reply her telephone to enactment her team.

'I person this astonishing schoolhouse that I get to manager astatine and I surely utilized connection that l americium not arrogant of successful the property room,' she said. 'That doesn't acceptable my character, the quality I person for my family, nor for my squad oregon the radical I situation myself with. 

'For that I decidedly privation to apologize. I anticipation we bash recognize that I worth my fans and friends that bash come. To usage those definitive words similar "nobody" and "everybody", it becomes thing that sticks and speaks louder than it needs to. 

I request to instrumentality those words backmost due to the fact that determination is loyal 2,000 fans that amusement up for women's basketball. 

'There's immoderate radical that reached retired to maine from immoderate large places successful our assemblage who shared with maine and raised their hands and said, "I'm guilty, I don't travel to the games. I request to commencement coming, you called maine retired and I'm connected my way." For that, I americium gladsome I did accidental it, due to the fact that present we are uncovering those different people.'