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Message: [QUOTE="Bone Dog, post: 5112735, member: 12088"] So many good points in this thread. By and large, I agree with [USER=7511]@oldude[/USER]: Geno tends eventually to settle on a 5+2 or 5+3 rotation by February-March. He seems to think of the first half of the season as the experimentation phase and the second half as the time to perfect the group he's settled on. So, the folks who think he should have a big rotation are right to expect this in the sense that he will have one in November thru January. But by the middle of February, there will be very little change in his rotation, unless injury or other external contingency forces it. Churning lineups in late February or March is disruptive and he seems to prefer to avoid this. That said, this season Geno has scheduled an interesting 'ladder' of progressively more challenging games leading up to Louisville, ND, ISU, USC in December. That will be a challenging stretch, and we'll see if can get his young team ready for it. Unfortunately, ND may not be at full strength by then -- Westbeld, Citron are questionable and Watson and Bransford are out -- but I suspect the matchup between Jana and Kate Koval will be really good. And the USC game should be a highlight of the OOC portion of the season. Juju is going to get a rematch with Paige, which should be great to see. Plus, USC has reloaded their roster with Kiki, TVO and Heckel, while Geno has added Sarah, Jana, Chen and, if all goes well, Azzi. If everyone is up to speed, this should be a great game. [/QUOTE]

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