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[QUOTE="JS, post: 2441783, member: 6"]
Understandable sentiment.  Perhaps the thread looks better to you now and has ongoing value.

Problem started with a Boneyard Rules violation IMO.  We don't trash the players, and a snide or flip comment that someone is a D-2 player does just that.  Another rules violation -- personal name-calling or attack -- occurred during the fall-out.

The violation and its progeny have been removed.  Apologies to those whose posts are gone because they quoted deleted posts.

As far as the substance of "keeping up with the pace," now revealed as unsubstantiated in the conditioning context, all freshmen, and most opponents, are shocked at the pace of UConn's play.

Conditioning may or may not play a part for some players, mainly opponents.  A coach has to deal with that, if at all, through substitutions.

But the UConn pace is mainly a wrenching change -- in terms of thought process -- from all of a player's long past experience.  UConn freshmen take varying times to adjust to it.  Most opponents don't have the time, ability, and/or coaching to do it.
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