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Message: [QUOTE="Carnac, post: 1992553, member: 5798"] The likelihood of what this team has accomplished to this point, was just not fathomable [U]for any of us[/U] back in June. [B]PhillyCoach [/B]nailed it saying: "[I]many of us posters came up with a loss of two-- not so much from saying we have less talent and depth--but observing 6-8 teams loaded with talented returning starters (more than UConn), gaining elite transfers who were becoming eligible, and recruiting 24 out of the top 25 players in the country (we got CD, the super 8 teams got many of the rest.) Simply put, IMO, we over estimated the productivity and effectiveness of these 8 loaded teams. Those elite 8 teams did not come through and UConn as a team over compensated to our surprise[/I]". We over estimated the competition (and their anticipated success), and under estimated our girls. The odds of them going 16-0 to begin the season, was just not reasonable to a rationally thinking and informed fan. The odds were just too great to fathom and run like this. Surely one or two of the Goliaths on the OOC schedule would prevail. They had the size, experience and depth to overcome any resistance UConn could mount. After all, UConn lost its 3 best players. [B]If you remember last year, we would get glimpses of next year's team when Geno would clear the bench in garbage time, and usually it didn't look promising.[/B] So, based on that (the eye test), what were we to think? The core of their team now is unproven. Several posters said that THIS YEAR, Geno would have to do some of his finest coaching, they were right, and he has. Remember the old Nike commercial in the 90's with Michael Jordan and Spike Lee?...."It's gotta be the shoes"!! Thinking along those lines: [B]It's gotta be the system,[/B] because the players keep coming and going through that revolving door. I'd really like to see them run the table right on through to next season. Just think of what the critics/naysayers would say if THAT happened. You think one or two of them would say how bad for WCBB a 5th consecutive national championship for UConn is. How "unfair" to the rest of WCBB it is. To me, it would just drive home the fact that [B]Geno has figured it out, and the other coaches have not[/B]. Let's hope the "haters" have reason to express those thoughts and opinions after the season. For now, it's on to Tulsa, go Huskies. [/QUOTE]

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