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Saturday, April 14, 2007

More on NCAA DI roster size, via Helen: Geno and Leon Barmore discussed the matter last year.

Barmore, the now-retired legend of La Tech, preferred to have fifteen: "I do believe there are kids who will choose a Tennessee or a Connecticut... and not think about being the last kid on the bench... But we [that is, midmajors] need 15 because it gives you more room for error."

Back in 2002, Geno endorsed the idea of fewer scholarships: "If I have 15 girls on scholarship, some of them won't play until they're juniors and some won't play at all. If they went elsewhere, they'd probably play right away and make another team better." (A few years later, a couple of them did.)