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Message: [QUOTE="hoophuskee, post: 4214279, member: 3535"] Thanks I appreciate the civil back-and-forth. And what you refer by other schools being more successful than UCONN- please name all the other schools that have been more successful than UCONN over the past 5 years overall? Are you going to use Stanford as one of them? If we look back from 2017 to present - in 2017 Stanford went to FF, in 2018 S16, in 2019 E8, in 2020 UCONN was ranked higher, and ofc 2021 they own a Nat"l. So UCONN being superior nearly every year doesn't count because Stanford won one year while we are in FF in 4 of 5 and in the other year we were ranked higher? There’s reasons why every team in America and in any sport hasn’t won a championship or hasn’t gotten to let’s say a FF or every team losing a game has a reason. And any time there is a loss and if it was close anyone can say “would coulda shoulda.” How about though that we recognize one game NCAA Tourney doesn’t always mean the best team wins? Along with other teams have great players and great coaching too? We’ve been to 13 straight FF’s. pretty amazing. No other team can say that in recent memory. In your 2nd and 3rd paragraphs - What “the folks believe” has nothing to do with what happens on the court. I’m not sure what you are trying to suggest about “folks” vs “player performance?” To further that, I’m not getting your point about 1/3 of team to fill 2 positions. Anyhow regarding Amari and your point about her; if using me as an example – if I say that she needs to get better to earn minutes; are you suggesting that I’m saying that she can’t play for another 2 years? In regards to parity, sure there is. But UCONN hasn’t recruited as well as they have in the past prior to the “Paige class.” Look at the championships since 2008-2009; 6 of them UCONN had at least two all-Americans. None of his seniors have been A//A. None of his juniors. Dangerfield was never an A/A. Walker was – but couldn’t we say for a 1st team A/A she was among the weakest UCONN had? [B]In 4 years from Dangerfield class to Aubrey Griffin class, UCONN produced just 1 All-American. [/B] So I don’t understand your point about parity and UCONN. UCONN hasn’t been as strong. Unless you are going to hammer UCONN for the 2 buzzer-beater defeats in 16-17 and 17-18? Sometimes yes there is safety is in numbers. But the UCONN way has shown that other times there is safety in winning with your superstars. And it seems Geno the past 2 years has been recruiting extremely well enough in order to keep this superstar method going. And you can’t guarantee championships. Fans do that. But in terms of relevancy, coaches and players do not. [/QUOTE]

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