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Message: [QUOTE="Huskee11, post: 2105110, member: 7171"] Hers is an admirable story of perseverance, patience, overcoming obstacles, maturity, and improvement. Way better as a senior than as a freshman. Now, an absolutely essential part of the drive for 12 (or is it 5?). There was a time when that was the norm. Nowadays, the players UConn typically recruits play 12 months a year, AAU and National U-Whatever teams, and many have private coaches, trainers, etc. (At least one has a dad who knows something about shooting!) Many are their state POY, some even more decorated. Not to say they don`t improve - they certainly do at UConn - but with all that playing and coaching they typically come in as freshman at a very high level, higher than say 15 years ago on average, and they know they are good. Everyone is telling them that, and it is true. They are not hoping to possibly start by senior year. The bigger concern with those players is probably overuse injuries. So, back to the theme of the thread - as great a story as Saniya is, I suspect that even as they honestly speak of their need and desire to improve, the high level recruits have a different images of themselves and different expectations of what they will accomplish and how soon. Whether their expectations are reasonable is, of course, another story entirely. [/QUOTE]