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Message: [QUOTE="msf22b, post: 3020254, member: 656"] Eric I agree with your thread title and partially so for your first few sentences...but at a certain point, we diverge. My take on the team is that it still doesn't know who it is....its identity is still a work in progress...the talent is there (as you point out) but smooth functioning and trust isn't. Remembering the three (or was it four?) loss season; Stewie was in a funk; the other two frosh were only partially trusted, the rest of the team had lost the ability to win the big ones...Still by tourney time, Geno had the confidence to say publicly that the team was ready to win. I thought that tonight would be the night that it would all come together...it certainly didn't. But I am not particularly worried since I believe that the potential is still there for it to happen. It still might. And If it doesn't...an alarm i've been raising since prior to the beginning of the season and again this week for which not a single participant has commented...not one...is best raised through an analogy. Some years ago (1986 to be precise) the master violinist, Issac Stern who had done wonders in saving the Carnegie Hall from the demolition folks, returned us the favor with a inane renovation that lessened the beauty of the sound perhaps forever. Among ( many) of the major changes was the removal of a false ceiling, thereby heightening the proscenium by about 100 feet. When the acoustician announced that every attempt was made to keep the sound exactly the same as before, I shook my head in derision and told him that his statement was nonsensical. To return to woman's BB...This summer we lost an effective coach, hired another whose skills do not replace those that had been lost...another coach was lost to maternity duties for some unknown period of time and those primarily responsible took on added duties....And you want and expect the results to be the same? Unlikely (as above) What I find most alarming is an unwillingness of the board to at least broach some discussion of this potential issue. [/QUOTE]

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