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Message: [QUOTE="Cuango, post: 4181756, member: 3834"] When I hear people complain about the “big” situation I wonder if they are really looking at it objectively. First off, good bigs are much rarer than guards, wings etc. There simply are fewer women of that size. So, you have a smaller pool and more coaches trying to recruit them. Second, really good posts, good hands, good fundamentals, mobile, high motor, smart, ideal size, etc are even more rare. Third, (this one really limits Geno’s options Imo) even with all those attributes/skills they may not be what he is looking for in terms of character, attitude, comportment, responsibility, etc. then you have to deal with family loyalties, perhaps wanting to stay in a particular part of the country, Coach preference, (maybe she wants to play for a certain type of coach), parental wishes/pressure, possible friends she wants to play with etc. Basically, you have a smaller pool from which to choose, then you add in all the disqualifiers, then you add in all the competing offers, and now the incontrovertible fact that there are simply more good teams for them to choose from, it really becomes obvious how rare a player like Boston, Lee, etc really are and how devastating Boston’s choice was for this program. There is little to no doubt in my mind that had Boston chosen to come here instead of SC, we would be attempting to win number 13 or 14 now rather than 12. This is in no way critical towards her choice, merely an observation of how rare those kinds of players really are and how fine a line there often is between good, great, and dominant basketball teams. Currently, as far as I can tell, there are two truly physically dominant skilled posts in women’s college basketball! Boston and Lee. One, Boston was expected to be great while the other, Lee from Kansas State, was not even ranked as far as I can tell. It’s an inexact science for sure, and when you throw in all the variables, it becomes truly clear how fortunate we’ve been to have had players like Stewie, Charles, Dolson etc! [/QUOTE]

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