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Message: [QUOTE="Carnac, post: 4370832, member: 5798"] No mention of the freshmen. Right now there’s no way to know how much (if any) help either of them will be this season. I can’t put my finger on it, and I have nothing tangible to substantiate my feeling that Brady will play a large part in the team’s success this year. I’m not saying that Patterson won’t, just that Brady will. Geno will play the hand that he has been dealt. Right now he has two aces and an eight, but the game has just started. Plenty of time to draw more cards. Practice begins in about 53 days. The coaches and players all know what this team must do collectively and individually to achieve the success they desire. With the lineup of top-ranked teams on their preseason schedule, UConn won’t have to wait long to see who and what they have. Adversity either builds character or reveals it. For the second year in a row, this program has been hit hard by the injury bug. Last year they met that challenge head on and was very successful. They didn’t win the grand prize, but they were one of the last two teams standing. So they’ve seen this movie before. Except for the 3 incoming players, everyone knows what they have to do. Geno won’t have to preach to them or warn them. There’s no substitute for experience. They’ve already experienced what’s coming. I think they’ll be ready. [/QUOTE]