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Message: [QUOTE="Dillon77, post: 3779107, member: 6620"] - RE: your first paragraph - no offense taken. You're right to point out that a forward -- let alone a freshman forward -- shouldn't have to be taking that lead. But that's kind of what it's down to. This team's core group last year were neophytes to the Irish and it looked it. Yes, there's injuries -- most notably Brunelle -- but the slide into "also-ran" kind of play has been a shocker. - Muffet wasn't quite ready to hang it up after 2018. Plus, she didn't want to encumber her successor with that ditch to climb out of. Plus, Niele was known to be the preferred successor and she recruited virtually everyone on the team, so she knew what she was getting. Niele has said that she's trying out different personnel and schemes. I'd think she's got a large enough base of games to see what works and does not for the Irish (get back to the motion offense) and might be another year of zone defense. Yikes. [/QUOTE]