If true, and I did not see the game, it stands to reason that having a bunch of guys on the bench that can come in and seamlessly contribute raises the work rate of your game and gives you more fouls to give.
What interests me is why this high injury rate is happening year after year to so many high level players in UConn WBB. Geno attributes it to a bad cycle. I do not think that passes the eyeball test. Can he no longer recruit rugged national talent and gets the lightly built talent instead?
You just hit the nail on the head. He cannot compete for the best players so he sells recruiting class results as ‘I got
Geno players.’, and relies on his reputation to legitimize the misses.
Plus, though he takes one every now and then he hates bringing in transfers and refuses to run players like DeBerry and Bethancourt off the roster which prevents him from maximizing scholarship firepower. With the liberalization of transfer policy the better teams are going to be older teams and playing 2-3 freshman major minutes isn’t going to cut it much less allowing less talented players to hang around.
He‘s 70 with 11 rings and I think a gold medal in his pocket so rightly he doesn’t have to listen to anyone. But the program will continue after he retires and IMO it is time to encourage him to hang up his spurs.