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Message: [QUOTE="Plebe, post: 3424804, member: 6927"] It sucks. There, I said it. But hey, if Geno can be blunt enough to say "our recruiting sucked", why can't we? UConn fans, many of us anyway, are not into consolation prizes. We've been spoiled to that. This ain't horseshoes or hand grenades. It's painful in retrospect to see that 2017, which was expected to be our "down year" with no returning All-Americans coming off the Stewie era, has turned out to be our best team in the past 4 years. UConn's interior play in the 3 years after Stewie and Tuck was cobbled together with a converted but dynamic post player in Gabby, a reluctant, underutilized post player in Stevens, and of course the ultra-smooth yet still undersized Napheesa. All three of them are gone. The well-documented costly misses in recruiting over the past 3 years are now showing plainly on the court. As a result, the recruits that Geno did succeed in getting are being asked to do too much to compensate for what we don't have. There was hope that Olivia would make a quantum leap this season. There was hope that Batouly would finally be healthy and contribute. There was hope that Adebayo provide a much-needed infusion of paint presence. Pains me to say it, but we are 0 for 3 at this point of the season. Does it mean we can't knock off some good teams? Of course not. But it will take a degree of confidence and execution that, frankly, we're still hoping to see. Here's to hope :) [/QUOTE]