[2006alum]

While it does limit our recruiting pool, I strongly disagree with the statement that admissions makes the possibility of a national championship more unlikely or difficult, and I think our current and future rosters are an example of that — we have as much talent as any other team in the country. 

Tara does not offer unless there is a significant chance a prospect will be admitted, and four top-20 2022s have already been confirmed to have received an offer, plus Betts and Rice who don’t report offers.

What, then, do you think explains our stretch of five straight recruiting cycles from Chiney's freshman year in 2010 and Kiana Williams' freshman year in 2017 during which we did not enroll a single top 10 recruit? I (and many others on this board) assumed it was the absence of viable admissible recruits at the upper echelons. During that stretch, the only two I know we lost out on who were confirmed as offered and admitted were KLS and Mikayla Pivec (who wasn't even a top 10 recruit). Given how much angst we had about losing those two, I assumed they were pretty rare misses.

And if they weren't, I'm curious why we don't hear more about the others we miss on, as we did with Van Oelhoffen, Miles, and Citron this past cycle. That was an extremely rare set of purportedly admitted recruiting misses, something I have never seen before. I took those lean years, coupled with the absence of viable targets we missed on and Tara's increasing tendency to look abroad, to suggest the we have limited admissible targets among the top recruits. But maybe I'm wrong?

[2006alum]

While it does limit our recruiting pool, I strongly disagree with the statement that admissions makes the possibility of a national championship more unlikely or difficult, and I think our current and future rosters are an example of that — we have as much talent as any other team in the country. 

Tara does not offer unless there is a significant chance a prospect will be admitted, and four top-20 2022s have already been confirmed to have received an offer, plus Betts and Rice who don’t report offers.

What, then, do you think explains our stretch of five straight recruiting cycles from Chiney's freshman year in 2010 and Kiana Williams' freshman year in 2017 during which we did not enroll a single top 10 recruit? I (and many others on this board) assumed it was the absence of viable admissible recruits at the upper echelons. During that stretch, the only two I know we lost out on who were confirmed as offered and admitted were KLS and Mikayla Pivec (who wasn't even a top 10 recruit). Given how much angst we had about losing those two, I assumed they were pretty rare misses.

And if they weren't, I'm curious why we don't hear more about the others we miss on, as we did with Van Oelhoffen, Miles, and Citron this past cycle. That was an extremely rare set of purportedly admitted recruiting misses, something I have never seen before. I took those lean years, coupled with the absence of viable targets we missed on and Tara's increasing tendency to look abroad, to suggest the we have limited admissible targets among the top recruits. But maybe I'm wrong?