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I believe Stanford has won more NCAA championships than any other school in the country.  Pretty difficult to argue poor Stanford is at such a big recruiting disadvantage.

Actually, it's sport specific, and the earlier poster was talking specifically about women's basketball. We clearly don't have a recruiting disadvantage for Country Club/Olympic sports; I'd argue we might even have a recruiting advantage for some of them. But out of all those nattys, men's football, basketball, and baseball together have won a grand total of three, none in the past 32 years. Similarly, women's basketball and softball together have won two, none in the past 28 years. That does not disprove the recruiting disadvantage argument for those sports.

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I believe Stanford has won more NCAA championships than any other school in the country.  Pretty difficult to argue poor Stanford is at such a big recruiting disadvantage.

Actually, it's sport specific, and the earlier poster was talking specifically about women's basketball. We clearly don't have a recruiting disadvantage for Country Club/Olympic sports; I'd argue we might even have a recruiting advantage for some of them. But out of all those nattys, men's football, basketball, and baseball together have won a grand total of three, none in the past 32 years. Similarly, women's basketball and softball together have won two, none in the past 28 years. That does not disprove the recruiting disadvantage argument for those sports.