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Message: [QUOTE="Huskee11, post: 5202186, member: 7171"] There is no way in the world that Geno would ever do anything resembling what was done with Nykesha against Villanova in 1998. Geno took a whole lot of heat for that, he hates distractions and it was a huge negative distraction. There were voices on both sides but plenty of vocal (media) opposition as I recall. But perhaps more importantly, it put Nykesha in a very uncomfortable position. I recall her being interviewed about it a while after it occurred (although I cannot recall how much later). She was regretful, almost sorrowful, that it occurred and that it threw her into the middle of an unfortunate tempest in the large teapot that is UConn WCBB. That she was impacted negatively weighed on Geno as well. He will never put any of his players into an orchestrated situation like that again. And as noted earlier, the situations are totally different. I have been watching Caroline during pregame warmups at home and she is in shape, moving great, and filling it up. Feels like a long shot but I hope she gets a chance to play but for real, not for show. [/QUOTE]