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Someone over at the Boneyard remarked that the advantage of playing at Stanford in front of her family would be a lot for any other team to overcome.  I hadn't quite thought of it that way.  Not only do we have the 40 year advantage, but in her case we are the school that would make it possible to have her family in the stands regularly for four years.  Those are two gigantic advantages.

Well, family connections and relative geography could have helped in a recent #1 recruit that ultimately decided on UConn, though in the end, perhaps it was because of those reasons and wanting to forge her own path instead of following in her sisters' footsteps, did the youngest Samuelson decide to be a Husky instead.

Yeah, that one really hurt.  And what's worse is that we've drawn the short straw both ways on that issue, with Diggins staying home in South Bend.

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Someone over at the Boneyard remarked that the advantage of playing at Stanford in front of her family would be a lot for any other team to overcome.  I hadn't quite thought of it that way.  Not only do we have the 40 year advantage, but in her case we are the school that would make it possible to have her family in the stands regularly for four years.  Those are two gigantic advantages.

Well, family connections and relative geography could have helped in a recent #1 recruit that ultimately decided on UConn, though in the end, perhaps it was because of those reasons and wanting to forge her own path instead of following in her sisters' footsteps, did the youngest Samuelson decide to be a Husky instead.

Yeah, that one really hurt.  And what's worse is that we've drawn the short straw both ways on that issue, with Diggins staying home in South Bend.