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Message: [QUOTE="JoePgh, post: 3154436, member: 1131"] Here is a somewhat related question, to which I do not know the answer: Did Geno tell Mikayla Coombs that he expected one or two highly rated guards to transfer in and be eligible to play next season? And did that cause her decision to transfer out? I obviously have no inside knowledge, but my answers are that he almost certainly DID tell her that in a postseason discussion of her future at UConn, and that information probably prompted her decision to transfer. That is based mostly on the rather long time interval between the end of the season and her announcement. If she had been planning to transfer for next year during last year’s season, she would have made her announcement right after the last game. If there were going to be no changes to the roster other than Aubrey’s arrival, Mikayla could have reasonably expected to be the third guard and (with some work on her jump shot during the summer) get a good number of minutes. But if she was going to have to compete with other good guards, that expectation would be far less realistic. I don’t think that UConn would have lost Mikayla from the roster if Geno had not been honest with her about the likelihood of incoming guard transfers. And considering that they were not a sure thing at that point, his decision to be honest with her was not without risk. [/QUOTE]