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Message: [QUOTE="Hans Sprungfeld, post: 4890841, member: 181"] You have a good analytical mind, and you've long displayed an interest in using it in this forum. Why do you (and often others here) regularly suppose that UConn's opponents might benefit from having previously played us such that they can have figured out how to beat us, but completely omit the likelihood that UConn might benefit from having previously played BE opponents and gained equivalent or even greater advantages. Is there a compelling argument for why those teams should not be even more concerned that UConn is also doing game prep and will be in a better position to beat their team? It's true that experience with a prior foe removes a meaningful element of surprise, but what necessarily makes that more disadvantageous or advantageous for one team than another? Next, I have a grammar question. You have used the word "hopefully" in a way that is more likely than not incorrect, but is quite common. At best, it is ambiguous. I believe that you are intending to convey your own hopeful wish that Dan Hurley will make adjustments. What you have written instead claims that Dan Hurley will make adjustments with his own hopefulness. That may well be true, but you don't necessarily know that and probably didn't mean for that to be your emphasis. The adverb that begins your sentence qualifies the next occurring verb, and the subject associated with that verb is described by the introductory adverb. Generally speaking, most people in your situation are wanting to express (in effect), "I'm hopeful that Hurley will make some adjustments that will mitigate..." but instead are writing (also in effect), "Hurley is hopeful that he can make adjustments will mitigate..." The latter is probably true, but his hopefulness also probably goes without the need to be said. [/QUOTE]

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