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Message: [QUOTE="Bone Dog, post: 5347462, member: 12088"] Poor Big Fish. Actually, I imagine Ayana or Kelis or even Allie would be alarmed if they ended up starting without having proven something very special in practices. I know they all dream of great things and of starting on an NC team. But they are also kids who have spent a lot of time playing competitive ball, working with coaches, and they probably understand very well how serious coaches operate. I mean, imagine how they'd feel if they started ahead of someone who was routinely outperforming them in practice. Even worse, if they let the team down in a game. Sure, some freshmen arrive on campus with an overly inflated sense of their talent, but I doubt Geno recruits a lot of kids like that. And if a few show up, I expect the rest of the team will show them how to estimate their talent in those early pickup games even before official practices begin. [/QUOTE]