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[QUOTE="MadDogRevival, post: 2670709, member: 8028"]
Not [B][I]suggesting[/I][/B] anything at all.  I plainly and clearly laid out my thoughts, which I concisely reiterate here:
It is more difficult to get motivated if you have had massive success, like UConn, than if you have had limited success, like ND.
That's it.
If somebody wants to make the argument that ND was more motivated, then my opinion is that that's an easy argument to make, because it would be perfectly human and normal for them to be more motivated, given that not one person on the team had won an NC, while the UConn women have been wildly successful.

What your question does is try to turn that basic, universal human psychology concept into an attack on our team, which it was not.

Was UConn "sufficiently" motivated?  I have no idea how to measure that, but I have no problem saying that ND may well have been more motivated.

Did UConn not "play hard"?  Again, you're just trying to convert my simple observation into an attack, which it was not.  Of course they played hard.

It's really quite simple - motivation is more difficult to come by when you have already had historic success.

Do you doubt that?
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