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Message: [QUOTE="EricLA, post: 2530181, member: 26"] Here's the frustrating thing, at least I think this is mainly why fans/posters are frustrated. Look around the rest of the country at some of the other freshmen who are being asked to shoulder large roles. Chennedy Carter for aTm. Westbrook/Davis/Hayes for Tennessee. Dana Evans for L'ville. Onyenwere for UCLA. Cooks for Michigan State. Williams and Dodson for Stanford. All these kids are pretty much playing every single game (unless they are sick or injured). Most are averaging double figures in scoring. Most are playing significant minutes, even against good/great teams. So why can these kids all earn PT while Coombs and Walker cannot? Why can these kids figure out how to play against really good players while Coombs and Walker cannot? Part of it is that these other teams don't have 6 potential all americans ahead of them on the depth chart. But I find it hard to believe that Carater, Westbrook, Davis, Hayes, Evans, Onyenwere, Cooks, Williams and Dodson are all so much better than Walker and Coombs that they are able to contribute while in big games, our freshmen are not. Is the UCONN practice and training regime so advanced that freshmen simply cannot grasp it at UCONN, but it's so much easier at other schools that really good freshmen not only start, but thrive all season long? I am more asking that question rhetorically since I do believe that the UCONN way is different. Probably every other school out there, besides UCONN, allows freshmen to come in and continue to do what they did well in high school, while slowly trying to curb bad habits they picked up along the way. At UCONN, that's not the way it's done. Apparently you don't get to play until most bad habits are squelched and kids can excel when playing against the all americans ahead of them on the depth chart. I can't argue with the results. Geno has consistently taken top 20 kids and turned them into WNBA players. He's taken top 10 kids and turned them into Olympians. I do get why fans are frustrated, especially if they are comparing our freshmen to other top freshmen in the nation, and that's part of the purpose of message boards - to let fans of all opinions share them, within reason. But as several have said, the proof is in the pudding. 11 NC's, many professional players, and the most Olympians of any program in the history of Women's Basketball... Oh, and almost every single player who has graduated from UCONN says unequivocally that no matter how hard the first year was, by the end, they get and appreciate why Geno coached them the way he did. He makes them into the best players they possible can be... [/QUOTE]

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