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Message: [QUOTE="Pudge, post: 4029616, member: 364"] without reading a long long thread of posts ... my fresh look: We at UCONN judge on a Curve. No other place has a Calhoun. Maybe the older guys and hoop historians recognize this: Calhoun took this State University from a sick low hole to Championship competitive. I don't care what URI fans say ... they are gnatss. We judge our - OUR - program now against the Blue Bloods; and perhaps the IU and Kentucky and UCLA spectre hurts a program with so many NCs and Elite eights etc. We sometimes cannot recognize true progress in increments. Hurley is doing a super job. Always starts with recruiting. The BE - for us in our first year - was a far more competitive test. That Creighton team YOU poohpooh'd was far better than you portray In Matchups sometimes they didn't play to top form; however, they proved to me to ultra competitive with 6 real solid players at this level. No shame in that loss. As Hurley has focused: we did not play our best in either Creighton or Maryland. I cannot think of a Calhoun analogy. A competitive coach uses that. Our loss of Bouknight (a Bouknight - by the way - that was clearly diminished post- injury) excites us: there has got to be a integrated Team game to win. And that is what this year sets up: Hurley has the horses. A Sanoga - a SamsonJohnson - a developing Andre - a new role for Tyrese - stable advancing leadership in Cole + Gaffney + Polley + Whaley - and a Justin Hawkins that we don't know what is gonna come. I would rather be Hurley and UCONN today than 350 other programs. I think we are gonna compete with 20 to advance to Elite Eight - and that is a wonderful boost from the last of Ollie. [/QUOTE]

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