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Message: [QUOTE="augustaTC, post: 2385006, member: 7216"] Boy I hope so. Maybe Crystal's kind of a mini-Stewie in that she figured she had all the answers and is kind of stubborn. I so hope she's made the leap and is finally beginning to get it. Geno didn't recruit her because of her press clippings - there's clearly a lot there. Her statement about finally figuring out what working hard meant puzzled me a little, but sounds like she's ready to show what she can really do. Crystal will be fine as long as she understands what virtually every kid in the program has come to realize - "There's so much I need to do to get better". And they repeat it again and again, [U]every single year they're in the program.[/U] I hope that one of these days we'll realize, as a group, that the expectations we create for freshmen are so silly and let the coaches bring them along. It's a process; it pretty much never varies; and it usually works. Too often I think we have a tendency to set these guys on pedestals and then get PO'd they don't meet those expectations. I remember an interview last year where Crystal's dad said in so many words, "I told her to listen to the coaches and work her off". Good advice. Just woke up in a pontificating mood! My apologies in advance. [/QUOTE]