Terrific news!! Congrats to Dodson and to Tara and the coaches and staff. This is a terrific recruiting class - we seem to have swept all 3 that HoopGurlz had as "considering" us this year, so can't do much better than that!
Coaching issues aside, I'm curious if people really think Dook continues to be among our toughest competition? Back 10-20 years ago when Dook was more closely perceived to be comparable to Stanford (non-Ivy Ivy with top sports but seen as a slight tier below HYP), I could see it. But these days, when Stanford is pretty much no. 1 in every category but US Snooze (parents' dream school, students' dream school, etc.), has the tech thing going for it, has lowest admissions and highest yield, etc., it's hard for me to see you picking Dook over Stanford unless you're a men's bball recruit...? For women's bball, at least, it seems like we've been losing recruits to USB, UConn, and Baylor. When was the last time we lost someone to Dook?
Coaching issues aside, I'm curious if people really think Dook continues to be among our toughest competition? Back 10-20 years ago when Dook was more closely perceived to be comparable to Stanford (non-Ivy Ivy with top sports but seen as a slight tier below HYP), I could see it. But these days, when Stanford is pretty much no. 1 in every category but US Snooze (parents' dream school, students' dream school, etc.), has the tech thing going for it, has lowest admissions and highest yield, etc., it's hard for me to see you picking Dook over Stanford unless you're a men's bball recruit...? For women's bball, at least, it seems like we've been losing recruits to USB, UConn, and Baylor. When was the last time we lost someone to Dook?