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Message: [QUOTE="Longtime fan, post: 4602218, member: 7093"] Dead is not the word, but " over" might be. No one will ever do what UCONN once did. There are too many girls playing basketball now ( I use "girls" to mean 6,7 and 8 years olds ). and the popularity of the sport is no longer limited to a few areas of the USA. It is everywhere. ( UCONN women just this year have players from Croatia, France, Canada, Portugal and Egypt ). So the talent base has exploded, and the appeal ( "come play at a fine US university......get an education and maybe earn money" in the process )has broadened. More schools will have more great players. For those of you paying attention, there is a guard on Va, Tech who once played "Australian Rules Football, " and the BB player she remind me of is Paige. She does everything well, is tough as nails, and puts the team on her back. Taking a realistic view about where UCONN ( women ) currently sits in the competitive cycle, does not constitute a UCONN hater. We continue to love the Lady Huskies, but we are moving away from the assumption that " we either win the national championship, or consider the season a failure." From now on, we have to see who shows up healthy and ready to play, and enjoy how they perform against that day's opponent. We have already learned how easily any and all expectations can be dashed due to unforeseen circumstances. [/QUOTE]