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Message: [QUOTE="Scrutineer, post: 3207326, member: 8240"] Too many apologists here for recent recruiting misses and failures to perform up to the reputation with which the players arrived. How can we puff out our chests and swagger into arenas if we haven't won a NC in three years? There's no denying that, in addition to the failure to sign a good big for a number of years, there have been quite a few misses on the recruiting trail. Look at Megan Walker's class. She's all that's left out of a class that also had #8, #10 and #21. Gabby and Kia's class lost #9 and #13, and #9 left Samuelson and Collier's class. What happened? Overrated, or they weren't what we thought when we recruited them? Early bloomers? Unusual granting of waivers for transfers that benefited other teams? So many variables, so much development of the game by Geno that overflowed into other schools due to his willingness to share with them, so many "entitled" kids that have been hyped all their lives that may not want to work as hard as Geno and Chris demand, etc. End result? UConn fans (entitled themselves by now) that can't remember the thrill we all felt on Martin Luther King Day in 1995, or the first Final Four in 1991, or the first championship in 1995. Maybe even loss of interest among the younger generation and dying off of the older generations and the loss of traditional rivalries the past six years that has lead to reduced live attendance and with that the excitement of big crowds and thrilling games which had been the norm for 20 years. [/QUOTE]

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