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Message: [QUOTE="Littlemin, post: 4155604, member: 10363"] Coaches put teams in situations to win but players decide games; there has never been a great coach that didn’t succeed without great players. John Wooden’s legacy would be much different had St. John’s not been ridiculously idiotic in “retiring” Joe Lapchick because of an unwritten age policy the school used; Lapchick and Kareem (Lew Alcindor at the time) were very close he was planning on staying home and going to St. John’s and playing for Lapchick. Anyway, Auriemma and staff has had the team remain right in the hunt every year but that big play, that big stop, that timely basket, that player stepping up at THE moment has just not happened. As has been posted many times prior, parity in WBB is here, it is here to stay, and the idea that Uconn is ever going to be “bad for women’s basketball“ again is just not going to happen; for them or any other team. [/QUOTE]