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Message: [QUOTE="Orangutan, post: 2612606, member: 4946"] You don't think McGraw deserves it because she had more talent that Miss St. but then you say "Geno deserves it pretty much every year"? Ok... Yes, all but a handful of coaches would trade their starting 5 for Mabrey-Ogunbowale-Young-Westbeld-Shepard in a heartbeat. On the other hand, that's a roster of 3 wings and two power forwards. There is no rim-protecting center (would have been Vaughn and Turner). There is no point guard (Thompson) and no one to defend opposing point guards (Thompson & Johnson). What's impressive to me about the coaching job McGraw has done is how she has had to adjust on the fly. Mabrey had to go from moonlighting at point guard to being a starting point guard. Young had to pickup playing point guard in the middle of the season while wearing a protective facemask. ND had to switch midseason to playing almost exclusively zone. And everything ND does has to be done while avoiding foul trouble like the plague as ND has basically 6 players (Danielle Patterson will be very good one day but for now she is still prone to far too many freshman mistakes). That pretty strictly limits how aggressive ND can be defensively. I think Schaeffer is a fine choice for CoY, by the way. Maybe even a better choice than McGraw. I just think there's more to understanding the job Muffet has done this year than can be seen by simply looking at HS recruting rankings. [/QUOTE]