UConn's Geno Auriemma Rips Quality of Connecticut Pizza in Video, 'Poured Some Red Stuff on the Box'

Folks in New Haven aren't going to like this one.

UConn women's basketball coach Geno Auriemma, a Philadelphia native, blasted the quality of pizza in Connecticut while speaking to reporters on Thursday.

"Pizza Capital of the world, my ass..." he said. "Excuse me, just commenting on the pizza that they bring to our locker room. Think they brought it to shoot-around this afternoon. Poured some red stuff on the box and called it pizza."

"Don't believe those signs, Mel, when you come into Connecticut: 'Pizza Capital of the World,'" Auriemma continued. "It's bulls--t. We're going to get better pizza, I promise you. I'll bring some for you guys to taste it. The good stuff, when we get the good stuff. Not the crap we're passing off as pizza now. Being Italian and being from Philly, no, sorry. It doesn't live up to the standards of UConn or the State of Connecticut."

The city of New Haven in particular is renowned for its apizza style of the popular dish, even if folks in New York, Philadelphia and perhaps Chicago might have their own say on who makes the best pies. Auriemma certainly made his thoughts known on the matter.