"Eating crow for the rest of his life" - WNBA fans troll UConn Huskies coach for his previous criticism of Caitlin Clark's MVP chances

Caitlin Clark has been named the 2024 WNBA Rookie of the Year after an impressive season with the Indiana Fever. The young guard didn't have the best start to her career but kept improving with time.

She won the ROY award unanimously and was named to the AP All-WNBA First Team and All-Rookie Team. Following this, fans brought up the receipts of people criticizing or predicting Clark wouldn't be as dominant in the WNBA as she was in college.

Uconn Huskies women's basketball team coach Luigi 'Geno' Auriemma had a grim prediction regarding Clark when he joined the Dan Patrick Show earlier this year.

"If you're a college player and you're a great college player like Caitlin was, the delusional fanbase that follows her disrespected the WNBA players by saying, 'She's going to go in that league and tear it apart,'" he said.

"There were actually odds--like, she's third or fourth in betting odds on being MVP in the WNBA. These people are so disrespectful and so unknowledgeable and so stupid that it gives women's basketball a bad name."

He added that Clark would face something unknown once she made it to the league, something that Diana Taurasi had previously said.

These words rubbed many fans the wrong way and they trolled him on X, formerly Twitter, over these remarks.

"Absolute clown to say those things like a week into the season. He’ll be eating crow for the rest of his life for that," one fan tweeted.

"I lost so much respect for him after he said this," another fan tweeted.

Some fans pointed out those odds were right, knowing how journalists pondered Clark's season.

"She finished 4th in mvp too so the odds were right lol," one fan tweeted.

"What an ass … I’m so happy to see her proving them all wrong. The people that have her at 4th in the betting odds for MVP are stupid.” LOL," another fan tweeted.

Others said that Auriemma's tone would've been different had he talked about a UConn player.

Caitlin Clark got MVP votes after her rookie season

If anybody doubted that Caitlin Clark put on a show during her WNBA rookie season, the AP committee gave her 130 points in the MVP voting. She got six third-place votes, 26 fourth-place votes, and 22 fifth-place votes, placing her at fourth in the voting behind winner A'ja Wilson, Napheesa Collier, and Breanna Stewart, respectively.

Following an impressive regular season, she's now set to make a bigger impact on the playoff as the Fever take on the Connecticut Sun in the first round.