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Message: [QUOTE="Bone Dog, post: 5321313, member: 12088"] This may seem like a swerve but it isn’t really. The question for this coming season may not be about talent but about drive. Any analysis of UConn (or its competition) ought to account for the will to win. Will we have it or will someone else want it more? Both these videos raise this question indirectly in different ways. The video below forecasts UCLA’s chances next season from the back2sports guy and it just dropped a day or so ago. [B]It’s not of interest to the UConn board except for one remark he makes toward the end about how much Lauren Betts really wants to win an NC before she graduates[/B]. I’m sure we all remember how shattered she appeared on the sideline watching her team get dismantled in the Final Four. They had a lot of talent last season, maybe more than anyone, but as the result showed, they didn’t have the drive to get past UConn. No one did. Paige & Co just wanted it more than everyone else. I don’t know if UCLA will have the drive to succeed this year. Cori’s record suggests to me that she doesn’t know how to coach those sorts of passions. But it does leave me wondering where the drive to dominate will come from at Storrs. If it’s there, I’m confident Geno and CD will find it. That’s what last season was all about and it may not have been until the Tennessee game that it emerged. Paige had an indomitable will to win, and she finally had a healthy team of players who really wanted to win it for her. Without Paige, albeit with perhaps even more talent on the roster, that drive seems elusive just now. Can Azzi and/or Sarah supply it? Or Serah, who finally has a shot at something that must have seemed impossible at Wisconsin? Or Jana and Ice, who may be tired and pissed about being discounted all last season? Or maybe the “Terror Triplets,” KK Kayleigh and Ash, will replace the “Havoc Twins” from last season and shove the team over the top. Or perhaps the team will rally around Carol as she makes one last heroic attempt to come back to her best form. Whatever it is, I’m sure Geno and CD will recognize it when it appears and do everything to nurture it. [MEDIA=youtube]C3m4BW5qGrY[/MEDIA] [/QUOTE]

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