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Message: [QUOTE="Longtime fan, post: 2134749, member: 7093"] True, except next year's team will constitute four solid stars ( assuming no injuries or other interruptions ), 3 sophomores from an unusually unimpressive UCONN recruiting class, and 4 freshmen. And just because Megan Walker is the nation's number one recruit, does not automatically mean she is the next Maya Moore. So it is not like there are 7-8 experienced players who will band together and do what Sue Bird's team did. As of this moment, we don't really have a team for next year. We have a large group of players, four of whom will have Sue's passion and experience. I know that I am miserable today, and will remain so for a while. I love this year's team, performance and effort. It crushes me that they couldn't achieve their goal of a national championship, knowing that they had the ability to do so ( too many missed foul shots, missed open looks, missed put-backs, turnovers, etc ). I can't stand the fact that I have to wait until next fall to see them play again. But I think it is overly burdensome on them, and on us, to start fashioning, based upon what some other teams did, a menu of defined success for next year. The wounds are still too fresh. It is like the old cry ( and I am old ) about the once Brooklyn Dodgers, " We'll get 'em next year." And for about seven years in a row, that never happened. [/QUOTE]