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Message: [QUOTE="eebmg, post: 2785127, member: 7548"] Just adding the second excerpt [B]Now that it’s been a few months, can you talk about the way last season ended?[/B] “I’m so over all of that to be honest with you — the whole ‘what do people think?’ There’s a segment of the population that you’re never going to make understand just what this all entails and how this all evolves and how it comes to pass. The internet is the worst thing that’s ever been invented for people who have absolutely the least amount of information, but have the most to say about what they think they know. Sometimes some of the stuff that I read, I laugh because they’re so wrong. They’re so completely out of touch with what the real thing is that you almost start to think that it’s actually made up. It can’t be real, this idea that anytime we lose it’s a failure by the coaches or a failure by the players. In any other place in the world losing three games in four years in overtime would be something where people would shake their head and say, ‘You must be making that up. That must be part of a sports fantasy novel.’ And yet here it is in real life and 99.9 percent of the people in Connecticut understand and all over the country understand, and whatever criticism there comes is based on so little information that those people have. But it’s the world that we’ve created, and I’ve just always tried to shield my players from it and let them understand that what we do is way different than what anyone else does. The world that we’ve created is way different than anybody else’s. For our players it’s a chance to look back on either last season for the freshmen or their careers for our seniors and look back on what they’ve accomplished and just say, ‘I can’t believe I actually was part of this.’ So when you’re going forward and saying, ‘What do we take from last season?’ Well, if you’d said to me, ‘Listen, you’re only going to coach at Connecticut x number of years from here on out, and every single year you’re going to be in the semifinals of the national championship tournament and you will have been undefeated when you get there, and you’re going to have a chance to win the game at the end and you might lose, what do you think?’ Well, I think every coach in America would say sign me up. We’re good enough and fortunate enough to put ourselves in that situation year after year after year after year and we look back on last season as another one of those great years we’ve had at Connecticut. Unfortunately we came up short, and that’s that.” [/QUOTE]

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