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Message: [QUOTE="TeamFirst!, post: 4277489, member: 11538"] To a degree he may be right. Culturally, can we get the best prospects compared to Stanford and programs like SC when the game is trending toward bigger, faster athletes who can defend and rebound well when our stock in trade are skilled shooters from prep schools? Culturally is that extremely athletic player a good fit when their background is maybe not as clean cut? The most athletic players we recruit often end up somewhere else recently or on the bench. We don’t recruit the Janiah Barkers of the world but she may end up the player that is key to winning a NC. I think we will certainly be in the conversation but you could make a case that the next generation of coach who could relate more culturally might even be a an appropriate move. Cue the outrage here but players need to want to come to UConn and the pressure and expectation level is ridiculous. Great players don’t want to be perceived as failures if they come in 2nd. [/QUOTE]