[76lsjumb]

Exactly.  If other women's sports can get top recruits on a consistent basis, why can't our women's basketball team?  I thought that our recent FF success would be paying dividends down the road with recruiting, but it hasn't.

Perhaps the really elite HS WBB players don't view our recent history as "recent FF success."


Consider:  In the lifetimes of those now playing, or just about to play, in college, the WVB team has won 2-3 National Championships and been the National Runner-Up five times [with a couple of extremely close defeats], having played in 11 Final Fours.  During that same period, the WBB team has won 0 National Championships and been National Runner-up only twice, having played in nine Final Fours.  Many of us remember the WBB NCAA Championships, having traveled to Knoxville and L.A. to see them.  However, none of today's recruits were even born then.


Also, if you are a WVB player and come to Stanford, you will be playing in what is a highly competitive league that is either clearly the best WVB conference, or one of the top 2-3, every season.  If you are a WBB player and come to Stanford... not so much.


Thus, it doesn't seem beyond the pale that an elite HS WVB player would think that playing at Stanford gives her a reasonably good chance of playing for and even winning a national championship at some point during her career, while an elite HS WBB player might very well not reach the same conclusion.

[76lsjumb]

Exactly.  If other women's sports can get top recruits on a consistent basis, why can't our women's basketball team?  I thought that our recent FF success would be paying dividends down the road with recruiting, but it hasn't.

Perhaps the really elite HS WBB players don't view our recent history as "recent FF success."


Consider:  In the lifetimes of those now playing, or just about to play, in college, the WVB team has won 2-3 National Championships and been the National Runner-Up five times [with a couple of extremely close defeats], having played in 11 Final Fours.  During that same period, the WBB team has won 0 National Championships and been National Runner-up only twice, having played in nine Final Fours.  Many of us remember the WBB NCAA Championships, having traveled to Knoxville and L.A. to see them.  However, none of today's recruits were even born then.


Also, if you are a WVB player and come to Stanford, you will be playing in what is a highly competitive league that is either clearly the best WVB conference, or one of the top 2-3, every season.  If you are a WBB player and come to Stanford... not so much.


Thus, it doesn't seem beyond the pale that an elite HS WVB player would think that playing at Stanford gives her a reasonably good chance of playing for and even winning a national championship at some point during her career, while an elite HS WBB player might very well not reach the same conclusion.