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In the past 6 years since Chiney as the #1 recruit in the Class of 2010 signed with us, schools like Nebraska, Ca.l, Texas, Duke, UCLA, Ohio State, Georgia Tech, Kentucky, U$€, LSU, Northwestern have signed at least one top-10 recruit during that time and we have more Final Four appearances than those schools combined over the last 10 years.

We are clearly in the top-tier of programs, despite a 20+ year drought in national titles. 

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That hasn't stopped UConn from attracting top-level talent.  I don't think UConn has lost an in-conference game besides to N.D. when they were in the Big East together in years (St. John's in the 2011-12 season) and now that they are in the American Conference, they don't beat opponents, they annihilate them with only South Florida resembling some form of resistance.

Regarding your first point, I'm thinking that -- with changes to the exact numbers and to some of the schools listed (like, say, adding Stanford to the list) -- Pat Summitt might have thought something very similar when Jennifer Azzi went across the country, rather than across the street, to attend Stanford.  Azzi, however, was likely thinking that it would be really neat to go to Stanford and be the player that lead them to their first National Championship.  I can understand an elite HS player choosing to go to a school without any National Championships as opposed to the "almost but not quite" history that Stanford has had over the past 20+ years so that she could be the one that made the difference a la Azzi.


As for the second point, the top level talent attracted by UConn probably doesn't even think about the conference -- everything before March is pre-season for them [including their annual game against us].  You go to UConn because the evidence suggests you've got a pretty good shot at winning the whole thing.  Even if you're not "the one" that got the team there, the national championship ring still looks nice...


My fear is that were in that purgatory between those two situations -- the perennial also-ran.  Like Florida in WVB.  Or, perhaps, Stanford baseball at the moment ...

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In the past 6 years since Chiney as the #1 recruit in the Class of 2010 signed with us, schools like Nebraska, Ca.l, Texas, Duke, UCLA, Ohio State, Georgia Tech, Kentucky, U$€, LSU, Northwestern have signed at least one top-10 recruit during that time and we have more Final Four appearances than those schools combined over the last 10 years.

We are clearly in the top-tier of programs, despite a 20+ year drought in national titles. 

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That hasn't stopped UConn from attracting top-level talent.  I don't think UConn has lost an in-conference game besides to N.D. when they were in the Big East together in years (St. John's in the 2011-12 season) and now that they are in the American Conference, they don't beat opponents, they annihilate them with only South Florida resembling some form of resistance.

Regarding your first point, I'm thinking that -- with changes to the exact numbers and to some of the schools listed (like, say, adding Stanford to the list) -- Pat Summitt might have thought something very similar when Jennifer Azzi went across the country, rather than across the street, to attend Stanford.  Azzi, however, was likely thinking that it would be really neat to go to Stanford and be the player that lead them to their first National Championship.  I can understand an elite HS player choosing to go to a school without any National Championships as opposed to the "almost but not quite" history that Stanford has had over the past 20+ years so that she could be the one that made the difference a la Azzi.


As for the second point, the top level talent attracted by UConn probably doesn't even think about the conference -- everything before March is pre-season for them [including their annual game against us].  You go to UConn because the evidence suggests you've got a pretty good shot at winning the whole thing.  Even if you're not "the one" that got the team there, the national championship ring still looks nice...


My fear is that were in that purgatory between those two situations -- the perennial also-ran.  Like Florida in WVB.  Or, perhaps, Stanford baseball at the moment ...