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After our guests (who happened to be from South Carolina, Wilson's home state) of this week departed this noon to head back home, we have some free time to review old DVR stuff. Decided to start with the show from a few years back on " UCONN's Quest for Perfection."
The show includes Tina Charles (home city, NYC) as a college senior; Tina, like A'ja, a "Big" of course....and each a presumed #1 as a high school senior. Hopefully, one day Wilson will see this show and listen to Charles talk about why she came to UCONN.
We all remember the high school #1 Tina....and we all remember the HUGE difference from those early days of hers to her final two years as a member of an incredible and close-knit UCONN team of basketball champions and classy young women.
When I put the DVR on tonight, I had no thoughts of Wilson or SC or Charles. Didn't even know what we were going to watch. But when I listened to and watched Tina, and thought back to her beginnings, my thoughts turned to the young Wilson and to the rather random SC connection of the past three days here, and the Charles/Wilson parallel. Just kinda seemed like a nice serendipitous package of links to mention to you.....sort of like you might wish for at Christmas.
Also sort of reminded me of a lay-up in a symbolic kind of sense, if you get my drift; remembering all those missed lay-ups by Charles when she first arrived and then the authority with which she went to the hoop her last couple years, I thought about recruiting "lay ups." Does anyone else see an obvious "lay-up" fit between Wilson and UCONN, or am I being less than objective in response to the events of the day and early evening?
The show includes Tina Charles (home city, NYC) as a college senior; Tina, like A'ja, a "Big" of course....and each a presumed #1 as a high school senior. Hopefully, one day Wilson will see this show and listen to Charles talk about why she came to UCONN.
We all remember the high school #1 Tina....and we all remember the HUGE difference from those early days of hers to her final two years as a member of an incredible and close-knit UCONN team of basketball champions and classy young women.
When I put the DVR on tonight, I had no thoughts of Wilson or SC or Charles. Didn't even know what we were going to watch. But when I listened to and watched Tina, and thought back to her beginnings, my thoughts turned to the young Wilson and to the rather random SC connection of the past three days here, and the Charles/Wilson parallel. Just kinda seemed like a nice serendipitous package of links to mention to you.....sort of like you might wish for at Christmas.
Also sort of reminded me of a lay-up in a symbolic kind of sense, if you get my drift; remembering all those missed lay-ups by Charles when she first arrived and then the authority with which she went to the hoop her last couple years, I thought about recruiting "lay ups." Does anyone else see an obvious "lay-up" fit between Wilson and UCONN, or am I being less than objective in response to the events of the day and early evening?