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Message: [QUOTE="Papa33, post: 2530555, member: 682"] How do you respond then to Geno's assertion that the coaches are not going to measure first-year players by their performance against the AAC teams that do not really test their game readiness, that they face much sterner, and revealing, competition against their teammates in practices? He seems to be convinced that practices test them more dramatically than game experience [I]against "easy" competition[/I]. Consider how we sometimes have trouble getting an accurate sense of our recruiting targets' abilities when they are beating up lesser teams, or how high school competition often exaggerates the Uconn readiness of kids who are stars at that level. If practices are made demanding and tough enough, I think coaches can rely on them as the clearest kind of assessments to judge them ready for teams that test the Huskies. [/QUOTE]