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Message: [QUOTE="hjoerring, post: 4058647, member: 3630"] I think this whole notion about the difficulties of 'following a legend' is overworked. We all follow legends of one kind or another, without stumbling. The next coach at Uconn will be successful or a failure not because they are following GA & CD; rather, it will be because they put things in place that may or not have succeeded. I like all the names being tossed around-- Shea R; M. M; Banghart, etc. Diane isn't coming to Storrs-- what would her spouse be doing? I can see Sue and the Seattle Storm coach-- Quinne as HC and asst, etc. My fantasies. My gut tells me that the vast majority of this 'follow- a-legend' failure happened because the legends themselves were little more than an image of what they once were. Knowing when to go/quit isn't easy. And, sometimes those handed the rein see the inherited playbook as the bible. They were simply not ready for the task at hand. I am worried about something else-- even with GA & CD at the helm. Yes, we are still getting the top players, but we are losing out to Stanford. And if some of the other private schools begin to make serious inroads, we may not be competitive for the top academic kids. Even though they will list us. This is not a problem for schools like So.C, Tenn, Miss, LS, etc., because they do not really compete with academic elite kids. I'm not saying these are the kids we need but, Stanford ends up colonizing that group (more than before when we had our hands deep into that pocket) what other pockets are around? This might also be a problem for ND! [/QUOTE]

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