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Message: [QUOTE="NycUcWbbFan, post: 5285980, member: 13453"] I agree 100% with your post. I’ll add one thing (underlined below) that I haven’t read anyone else mention. Geno’s [URL='https://the-boneyard.com/threads/the-battle-for-playing-time-a-spot-on-the-rotation.205139/post-5176708']newish-oldish[/URL] MO harkening back to the early TASSK years and resurfacing last year with the Paige-Sarah-Azzi Superteam would illuminate how Geno has fully embraced large rosters with top-down quality players. Superteams are now a feature of the paradigm shift of the portal and NIL. And this has emboldened Geno’s use of [URL='https://the-boneyard.com/threads/confirmed-uconn-pursuit-of-wisconsin-transfer-serah-williams.206443/post-5225779']large-rosters[/URL] — yes, he has had large rosters in the past, but he did not (or [I]could not[/I]) stack all the scholarships with quality players. [U]Geno and CD has built a program that has one of the most alluring “Field of Dreams” siren call to recruits and transfers. In the Superteam era, Geno has now been able stack a full roster with the top-down quality of recruits.[/U] And since Geno and CD do not compromise on the type of recruits they entertain, the program has performed at the wholesome peak level as before without the rocky experiences of other programs in this new landscape. But is Geno’s newish-oldish approach [B]sustainable[/B]? How do you keep 15 quality players happy? In this [URL='https://the-boneyard.com/threads/heckel-to-uconn-merged-threads.207545/post-5284061']post[/URL], I circumscribe some of the considerations for the 2025-2026 team. In practice, Geno and CD has deployed a full 40-minute mix-match strategy fed by his best-in-class farm system which is only limited by how many players reach team peak postseason “basketball player” form. Last year, even though the team started with only Paige as the certain commodity, the team had a late season (5)+5 (a [URL='https://the-boneyard.com/threads/the-5-things-that-we-need-to-do-and-will-do-to-get-12.205081/post-5174743']Noah’s Ark[/URL]) rotation, prior to Morgan’s injury, with 9 starters or former starters. With a second-five/six line of Kayleigh, Ash, Morgan/Caroline, Ice and Jana, I do not know why Geno would constraint himself to a (5)+2 or (5)+3 if this second 5/6 (not forgetting Allie or Ayanna) perform with a full year tutelage from Geno, and team’s [URL='https://the-boneyard.com/threads/heckel-to-uconn-merged-threads.207545/post-5284061']metamorphosis starting earlier than the Big East schedule[/URL]. Quality mix-match depth is now a great strength, why squander it? No UConn roster is the same. What is the same is the type of recruits that Geno and CD desire and fortunately are able to attract. So, next year’s team’s 40-minute mix-match play will look a little bit different but would be no less potent. [/QUOTE]

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