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Message: [QUOTE="hjoerring, post: 2516596, member: 3630"] I (we) have heard this thing about 'practice and playing time' a million times and my calculate tells me that it make sense in the days when you recruited 2 (or 3) top players and the rest well below them and competing for playing time. As the numbers on the top increase the probability of a player- who is not one of the very top players- getting on the floor when it matters diminishes. Indeed, it is conceivable that if the incoming class lives up to hype there will be players from the previous 2 classes that will not get into games. By saying that you earn it in practice (all top teams can say it if they have the players), he places the blame on the players rather than himself-- how many top players is too much. Do we seriously think that Geno will sit his top players in a set of crucial games because they weren't going hard? He sat Tuck, Stewart, etc., but it was clear that the team had no chances of losing that game. Tactically, a player ranking in the 30s must seriously evaluate if Uconn is a Program for her. From what I have seen the Program have done an excellent job of developing 'bench-players' into professionals (when they play in their senior year). From my limited vie and understanding it is a tug-a-war that players and top Program face. The top players all want to go to the top few schools and the latter are after them and onto the next top group(s). Think about how we criticize a top player when she opts for a school much further down the food chain: 'she can't handle the pressure of playing here, ''she will regret it,' she probably isn't as good, 'she will never win an NC-- wow. [/QUOTE]

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