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Message: [QUOTE="diggerfoot, post: 2509115, member: 1673"] I did not think we were essentially at odds until this last post of yours, particularly what you chose to put in caps. Using NCs is a criteria, not a random choice or personal whim. Some criteria can be graded stats based, many can be discrete either/or variables. If you want to claim the use of NCs as a criteria as a random choice or whim, all we would need to do to disprove that notion is take a poll about what fans think UConn WBB is all about. Some may say teamwork, excellence, etc., but I'm quite sure the leading vote getter would be winning NCs. Hence, it's neither a random choice nor a personal whim. You can disagree with that and suggest your own criteria, but you cannot correctly say it's random or a whim. The analogy with the President's can be extended further for illustration. Benjamin Franklin, at least in some respects, both predates and exceeds Washington in terms of statemanship shaping America. Yet no one questions why Franklin is not on Mt. Rushmore because he simply was never President. Bascom never won a NC; whether she did more for the program, came first or was a better player, etc. is irrelevant if an empirical, criteria-based approach is used whereas NCs is mandatory to be on UConn's Mt. Rushmore. [/QUOTE]