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Message: [QUOTE="RedStickHusky, post: 3975595, member: 663"] Yes, there is a recipe but if it was that easy, you'd think we'd see a lot more UConn level teams. My guess, (who can really know) is that on top of following the recipe, you have to the real magic that Geno, or more likely the combination of Geno and CD, have. Anybody can run a hard practice, anybody can recruit selectively to fit a system, anybody can drill and focus on execution; Very few have shown the ability to find the right balance between pushing and coddling (maybe it takes two, doing a good cop, bad cop routine) that squeezes the maximum team-oriented performance possible out of an elite group of alpha players. It's remarkable how often fans in the BY are offended on behalf of certain payers for their perceived verbal abuse by Geno. Far more frequently than the players themselves. The one thing that's always been obvious to me over the years is that most of Geno's players will run through brick walls if Geno asks them to because he's Geno and because they love him. [/QUOTE]