South Carolina Coach Dawn Staley on Caitlin Clark: She is a superstar

South Carolina Coach Dawn Staley and South Carolina Gamecocks Center Kamilla Cardoso to discuss the rising popularity of women's college basketball, Caitlin Clark's role in bringing more attention to the sport, and more.

[@MrNodeee]

So much attention to the women's basketball and Caitlin. I just want to say, I am big fan of great leadership and think it is invaluable in both sports and any organization. The biggest superstar I have seen in all of this is Dawn Staley. You can tell by her interviews and team performance this year, she is a superstar coach and outstanding leader.

[@jennahawk12]

I live in Iowa and I've been absorbing all the Clark media like a sponge. But every time Dawn is on TV, I stop and listen. She will go down as a forever Great.

[@teejayjax]

Dawn Staley is a class act. So much poise and knowledge. And she's also one of the best coaches basketball as ever seen!

[@CarlBriggs25]

Dawn really really really really care for her players and it shows .

[@petep5207]

Except when she conspires with them to perpetrate a race hoax....

[@CarlBriggs25]

@@petep5207 great move by Dawn , even if the allegations made by Duke player was true, false , or inconclusive. Dawn was very smart to not go there . Taking a visit would have stewed nonsense even if it didn’t exist before. Smart move Coach

[@isadorealire5722]

The money can only come if it's there. Once the league is profitable, payroll can be addressed. I just don't understand all of the criticism from the WNBA veterans. the opportunity is there with all of the young talent to really make positive changes going forward. this wave of popularity, while overdue, should be embraced.

[@ST-xg3gy]

Way to go Dawn! Way to represent Carolina!👍

[@hansel2001]

This USC coach is great. She speaks the truth, celebrates others’ successes, and provides solutions.

[@dorino9057]

Can’t wait 🔥🔥

[@thewatchmen4920]

Great interview. Great win. Next year will be 🔥 📺 🏀 👀.

[@Hwillijonl]

Great to see women's bb coming into its own.

[@Smackwater587]

Dawn Staley is the best!!!! ❤

[@user-lh7qb2pn1b]

CC is a hoopster star.

[@taipan1234]

Are you talking about the two-time loser 😂🤣😂🤣😂

[@Rainy2255]

@@taipan1234guess you mother washed your mouth with soap.Your hatred is palpable

[@stevehardwick7285]

No, the all time leading scorer and league assist leader, try to cope homey.@@taipan1234

[@user-kb8lk5mc2b]

​@@taipan1234🤣🤣

[@petep5207]

@@taipan1234 - The one wit hmultiple records that may never be broken.

[@alicewashington3874]

You tell this coach Stanley, there's so many moving part to women's basketball, not just Caitlin Clark, she's not the only one doing great things. There's so many teams with some great players on it , the freshman of this year are play maker's

[@ttaylor758]

That’s nice, but Clark is special

[@misss6596]

Right! Players who actually dominated and won a championship!!! LSU, SOUTH CAROLINA

[@petep5207]

Carry on with your racism and jealousy. Pathetic, but hey, do you

[@BigJasonHenderson]

Nobody dominated more than CC. She sells out all by herself. Listen to Coach Staley!

[@petep5207]

Is this the SAME Dawn Staley who orchestrated not ONE....but TWO...racism hoaxes which were both debunked? Not sure I want to take anything SHE takes seriously. Her resume means nothing to me, Her character isawful.

[@crunkgirl711]

The folks really should of followed up with Cardoso on the NIL question. People believe she’s making millions but don’t know that she doesn’t get nil because of how she got here from Brazil. Over seas players like her and Aliyah edwards don’t qualify unless there home. Edwards could only make money from adidas if she was in Canada

[@wanchaichump5932]

Agree. It would’ve been good if they explained that foreign college students aren’t allowed to earn US-based income under the terms of their student visas.

[@crunkgirl711]

@@wanchaichump5932exactly it would of been very informative and the money talk would definitely lift the eyebrows of the channel. I think it’s crazy but I’m glad she can feed her family now

[@thegreat1137]

I love her but she needs media training, she seems shy.

[@lindaweight6176]

Kamillah's first language is not English, she came to the US at age 15 not knowing the language.

[@crunkgirl711]

@@thegreat1137 she’s always been shy lol local fans didn’t hear her speak until the sec tournament started lol she didn’t do any interviews all season

[@VeraxMusic]

That guy still doesn't get it. The pay "disparity" is based on revenue/ticket sales. Not someone actively making a decision about, "ok, here's how much I think these women should get." IT'S TICKET SALES.

[@brennankaneyt]

They only want her on to talk about Catilyn what ashame

[@JosephThomas-xb9wo]

Congratulations 🎉 to the gamecocks basketball 🏀 team .

[@cassandracole7498]

Dawn we know yall ready …go get your paper

[@stevespears8193]

Chelsea gray is my favorite usc

[@emmanueloban8349]

I hope that WNBA and women's college basketball will take off to the farthest level of financial rewards to all our women. I'm a man wanting this excitement brought by these women and creating drama, fights, and rivalry which makes the game exciting. Juju Watkins and Paige Buechler will be the next superstars. European women are also very good.

[@JosephThomas-xb9wo]

Buy stock in the wnba its going up

[@DaVisionOutdoors]

What’s the stock symbol?

[@misterpsk]

Talk about put your fans on your back!!! Caitlin asked her Iowa fans to raise the level of cheers in response to a great Iowa play. It takes courage, honor, and character to ask your fans to increase their level of cheer, and her fans honored with a louder cheer, Caitlin had the courage to ask, and fans accepted her character as part of the moment, a part of them! This Caitlin Clark effect is the relationship between the star athletes and the women basketball fans. Billie Jean King fought the penises of the tennis association for women professional rights and won. Tiger Woods had a great run with the golf fans. Manic Johnson and Larry Bird made the NBA a viable professional league which “Be like Mike” possible. I think we will soon see “Be like Caitlin” everywhere. I think young parents of girls and boys have a pure competitor role model in Caitlin Clark. Parent have focus on Caitlin and are pointing out that anything is possible if their kids “Be like Caitlin”. She plays the game with honor, courage, and character. Where are the role models? On the national scene we have liars. Congressmen who are spreading Russian propaganda and not honoring international sovereignty and favoring Putin reforming the old Soviet Union into a fascist Russian state!

[@user-kb8lk5mc2b]

To many good words for a 2× los*r.

[@poloregal]

Get outta here. South Carolina fans have led the nation in attendance for 10 years.

[@jennahawk12]

​@@poloregalonly since 2017. No one's trying to take away anything from the gamecocks. But, Clark was initially criticized for pumping up the crowd and her passionate play. When she started doing it 4 years ago, I noticed that a lot of other girls started getting confidence. Take Flau'jae Johnson, for example. This year she was playing to the audience and pointing out in the crowd, getting them pumped up. I loved every minute of that as well. For a long time, women were told that this type of behavior is inappropriate. And now doors have been opened. All the teams are not going to look back!

[@natureboy915]

What does have to do with the stock market??

[@neoxsupreme]

The NY Stock Exchange often invite individuals who are newsworthy to ring the opening bell. They just won NCAA championship.

[@laminar0886]

It’s about the “potential” for money making. They don’t talk about ANYTHING unless there’s a money making angle to it.

[@ST-xg3gy]

They have honorary bell ringers and notable visitors. What's the problem?

[@JoeJoe-jx9vv]

Ms Clark will breath some new life into a dead 💀 league. She is definitely 💯 % the biggest and most talented player in the draft this year. A record setting player for sure 😊

[@foolotv2078]

Cant believe kamilla doesnt have any nil deals

[@megalodon1726]

She's from Brazil on a student visa. NIL deals are legally complicated for foreign athletes on student visas.

[@foolotv2078]

@@megalodon1726 ok thats for sharing that i didnt know

[@jennahawk12]

But she can still get sponsorships, correct? I don't think that necessarily counts. Hopefully she can get some sponsors, even in her native country now that she's in the WNBA

[@megalodon1726]

@@jennahawk12 In the WNBA she'll have a different type of visa which will open up her options for sources of income.

[@JosephThomas-xb9wo]

More Caitlin , juju ,angel, veth , cardoso ! WnBA is fantastic

[@kathyshea2444]

Not juju..get real

[@danirobinson9874]

Tell the whole story 38-0

[@mothermay.i9847]

the other guy on the end is so not interested

[@josephwallace3885]

She is good but Raven of South Carolina stopped her. Clark hit 10 out of 28 shots against South Carolina.

[@the_freedom_runner]

Raven didn't stop anyone. Clark hit 10 of 28 because she just missed some of her shots. She still scored 30. If Caitlin maybe scored like 10 points, then you'd have an argument.

[@josephwallace3885]

@@the_freedom_runnerRaven owned Clark and you could tell she was shaken. Karma came back to bite Clark.

[@the_freedom_runner]

@@josephwallace3885 I'm never going to win an argument with someone with mush for brains.

[@the_freedom_runner]

@@josephwallace3885 How many points did Raven score? How many rebounds? Assists? You clearly don't know the game. It's okay, admit it.

[@speakeasy2982]

​@@the_freedom_runnerRaven missed with her mind, wore her down physically and kept her from controlling the pace of the game. If you notice Clark kept setting plays and calling for the ball especially mid to late 4th quarter Raven contributed greatly to CC 10 of 28.

[@johnp4471]

Dawn needs to start talking about her own players and Raven who successfully defended caitlin Clark so they may also get some endorsement deals. Leave Caitlin Clark alone. She already got many endorsements and your players beat her. I never heard Caitlin Clark coaches promoting South Carolina players. Lifting your own players wouldn't make you racist. Ignore pressure from the media. South Carolina has many talents who can break records if they decide to be selfish. Caitlin is always shooting the ball by herself

[@wanchaichump5932]

Right. That’s why Caitlin is also #3 all time in assists, because she always shoots the ball.🙄 Fortunately Dawn Staley, like Kim Mulkey, is able to see the big picture and realizes that superstars bring in the fans and drive popularity, and that Caitlin is a superstar, and this is good for Staley’s sport.

[@sunflowerlife1877]

CC is NOT always the big picture!!! Dawn has spoken highly of her!! Iowa's coach didn't say a thing about any SC player, and she hasn't been forced too. Every interview they ask Dawn about CC!!

[@johnp4471]

@@sunflowerlife1877 exactly, they like Dawn because she always tells them what they want to hear

[@user-kb8lk5mc2b]

They don't ask about her players. Coach Staley replie is always the same with a few different words. Cc ain't s*it!

[@kurtjohnson4816]

@@sunflowerlife1877 Coach Bluder praises opposing players all the time. And, she also referred to Staley as "the leader of our sport".

[@user-lj9tk7ji1c]

It's too bad that the mainstream media has been lying about Clark's points record. She is not the record holder. A black woman in 1975 to 1979 has a record of 4016. In college. Her name is Pearl Moore.

[@user-xn7tq1qh5r]

And Caitlin Clark is the TOTAL reason for this!

[@Benwood1900]

😅😅😅😅😅 Say no to drugs.

[@neetrab]

Dumb lol

[@neetrab]

​@@Benwood1900 thank you!! Lol

[@clevereagle9327]

Sure she's a superstar but I have Caitlin Clark fatigue. Enough already!

[@lordsmack]

Lmao are you fan of sports 😂

[@neetrab]

​@@lordsmack I'm so sick of the Clark talk. So glad Dawn ended the nightmare on the court.

[@neetrab]

Caitlin literally lost/choked the game away for Iowa, but nobody wants to talk about the blemish on Clark's flourishing career smh

[@Rainy2255]

😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@nathanstevenson1190]

Blemish? Bro, she took a mid level iowa team to the finals twice in a row. Broke dozens of records along the way. But you know this, u just a hater.

[@homergallardo9650]

In any team sport, no individual can win or lose a game. In basketball it is a group of five people plus a support group of bench and coaches, winning or losing it. But skill wise, an individual may rise above the rest, though that still is not a guarantee to win.

[@user-kb8lk5mc2b]

​@@nathanstevenson1190all that wasn't good enough. She still a 2× los*r. I'm a *ater

[@the_freedom_runner]

30 points isn't considered choking, and that's 30 points better on her worst day than you'd ever do on your best day in a stage like that. Continue drinking your Dr. Pepper and eating those chicken nuggets, you keyboard expert.

[@ttaylor758]

The CC jealousy is sad

[@Robert-uc5pb]

FOH. No one's jealous of Clark. Black women in the WNBA outnumber White players by 4 to 1. We make up 70% of the damn league. We're just tired of the accomplishment of our Lady Gamecocks being placed on the back burner for a two time loser. To hell with her individual accomplishments. She earned those but this is not her time and we got the right to speak up about it whether you folks like it or not.

[@sunflowerlife1877]

Right!!!!!

[@LifeIsNotorious]

Of what? She lost

[@misss6596]

This interview should be about the winners only. Not the losers

[@tykeshiaharrison8825]

These men are stuck in a bubble. South Carolina won the National Championship and the media needs to stop asking Dawn questions about Caitlin Clark.

[@misss6596]

Right! They're so focus on here because she's white period.

[@malebovinemanure]

@@misss6596 Sure. It is because she is white. It has nothing to do with her Logo 3's. Or her breaking 45 records. It is only because she is white. That is why America loves Simone Biles so much, because she is white. Oh wait.

[@monicasmith7050]

Raven shut her down…WNBA guards will do as well.

[@JosephThomas-xb9wo]

You can shut her down ... From 30 to 20 .ho hum .!

[@jackswanson8326]

CC will have a WNBA supporting cast. You don’t understand basketball.

[@kyleelsbernd7566]

Cc22 mugged by WV and UConn, beat LSU, toughest path to chip by far. Cc went all out qtr 1 and gassed out. It happens.

[@Robert-uc5pb]

​@JosephThomas-xb9wo Another bandwagon Great White Hoper who doesn't understand math. CC scored 30 points on 10 for 28 shooting. That's not an efficient FG %,buddy. And here's the reality check: Caitlin Clark was guarded by Bree Hall in the first quarter when she scored 18 points. After Raven Johnson started guarding Clark in the 2nd quarter Clark only scored 12 points(5 came from freethrows so in actuality she only scored 7 points!) on 3 for 11 shooting. That's a 27% FG % if you know math. Clark was also stripped 4 times by Raven.

[@JosephThomas-xb9wo]

@@Robert-uc5pb you keep living in your fantasy world 🌎 believing caitlins not a good player , Connecticut played her good defensively. But she still gets her points .she's also a great assists dish player .if you truly b lieve shes going to be a bust in the NBA you need to read the basketball books for dummies. Who you going to believe me or your lying eyes 👀

[@ivand0007]

Why is this garbage on cnbc

[@susanjackson6521]

Caitlin Clark is the new Michael Jordan!! I can’t wait to watch her play. Without her …I wouldn’t watch

[@neetrab]

😂

[@neetrab]

The new Jordan??? 😂 Wow

[@Robert-uc5pb]

The delusion of you people has gotten unbearable

[@Robert-uc5pb]

Don't watch then. The WNBA does not need you bandwagon Great White Hopers anyways. If you think she was exposed in the title game by Raven Johnson in the title game wait till the more skilled defenders in the WNBA get a crack at her. You might as well had said "I'm rooting for CC because she's a White girl who happens to be a greater than average basketball player".

[@markparham]

you should research a woman named maya moore before you make that statement

[@flawlessfootstomper7004]

Someone needs to ask Catlin how she feels about letting transgender play aginst her. I would love to see her response if she could handle the competition. Or are we going to continue to protect her????? Inquiring minds want to know

[@livelaughlove1259]

Why do ALL conversations have to be around Caitlin? Every time a black person accomplishes something, the media ALWAYS finds away to bring it back to somebody white😡

[@petep5207]

WAAAAA !!!!!!..................WAAAAAAAAAAAA !!!!!

[@mushmouth610]

The mammy needs to stop tap dancing for Clark. You never see the Caitlin Crew type give the Dawn Stanley's the same respect. It's nauseating.

[@rey31817]

Caitlin Clark thanked her on SNL

[@Ryyian]

She's a great champion,she doesn't feel intimidated by CC greatness so she can give her props,you can't know that because you're a 🤡

[@allysonlyga4742]

Agreed but the media has to stop constantly asking her about CC and ask her about her own program and players

[@jerri3285]

Mammy and Dawn don’t go in the same sentence. Dawn doesn’t mind answering the questions there’s a mutual respect and Dawn truly knows her worth and who she is

[@jennahawk12]

Clark has given credit to Staley in like 15 interviews! Where you at? She only talked about her for like 30 seconds at the end of this interview.

[@johngiglio6834]

Dawny wants Transvestites on women's teams.

[@ClementSmith-yn1ld]

'Dawn Staley is infamous only Caitlin Clark is a superstar!!!

[@Tad-ih9fl]

CC and Iowa beat both those teams just couldnt get both same season.