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Message: [QUOTE="Hunt for 7, post: 5122317, member: 12414"] Let’s see what happens. Perhaps I could have added some qualifiers other than the one I did regarding injury. But if Hurley was inclined to change the starting line up why would he not have tried it during these buy games. I agree that Mahaney is not one of the best five right now and yet he is still starting. So that tells me Hurley has him on a very long leash because he feels by February heading it to March he will hold up best under the pressure. And I am on record as saying I do not think he (Mahaney) should be starting but clearly the coaching staff still thinks that is the best option. We seem to have some form of this discussion every year and four games into his UConn career anyone on this board who claims they saw what Newton was going to become at that point, I would question their memory. Then all of a sudden things started to click and we went in to win our first 14 games or so and yet if I recall there was still some of us wondering if Newton was the right choice at point. And it definitely started up again when we went through that January early February funk….. The biggest difference on this team is that we certainly appear to have more options. From what we have see so far I would be fine with AM turning into a Joey C role but if that happens do we keep him after this year. Look at who we have coming in and with Nowell being a year into the program how does he fit next year. My reasoning is Hurley has to consider everything, of course the focus is on this team and winning this year but when you build something like this every move has a reason and protecting the image that has now allowed us to keep very good players out of the portal and recruit 3 5* high school seniors is like walking a tight rope. So the sum it up. I agree with your thought but it seems to me that Hurley does not and he will need a really good reason to change what he thinks. [/QUOTE]

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