[cardfan1996]

I wonder how Cori Close sees the current whirlwind of player transfers. My guess is based on this:
• all coaches want to win, some think they can win a national championship, Cori is on board for both, 
• the big money for NIL is probably in the LA market, Cori could wave the prospect for fame and fortune to her potential recruits whether they be in high school or in the portal,
• Cori seems to have a plan — coach the U19, get a highly ranked set of recruits, capture the #1 ranked player in D1, steal another after recruiting her sister,
• Cori is shrewd — she developed a relationship with youthful players, infused in them the idea that, rather than going with an established team they should help build a championship, she knows that recruitment starts with player word-of-mouth,
Cori must be celebrating the portal & NIL. She seems to be working it to a T. And, if the stars align for her, she just might win it all. In any case, her team will be primed to compete with the best of the other budding teams in the Big12.
While, personally, I have never been a fan of her, it seems as though her strategy is going to work. And that has and will affect Stanford for longer than I want to imagine.

Cori has embraced Nil which is more than we can say about Tara but is there some uptick in money flow AND interest in WBB in Westwood specifically and the LA market generally that I am not aware of? I know with 100% certainty that she and her staff were uniquely focused on making sure Kiki Rice got her Nil opportunities because they were concerned she would leave but I am not aware this hyper focus extended to every player on the roster. It looks like Charisma will also benefit next year too. But I am skeptical until I see Londynn Jones driving around in a Tesla, then I will be a believer.

Edited to add: UCLA/USC don’t have Big 10 money yet (and that hasn’t been worked out yet how athletes will share in the TV deal) and UCLA’s athletic Dept was in the red last I heard. If a big donor was writing checks, I’d think that would be the first priority. And after football, MBB, women’s soccer (multi champion), xxx number of other sports before WBB, I wonder what type of money is left over for UCLA WBB (keep in mind, in Cori’s 12 years, UCLA has only reached the Elite 8 once and apparently never (like ever) won the PAC-12 regular season or tourney. Even I didn’t realize the latter.)

[cardfan1996]

I wonder how Cori Close sees the current whirlwind of player transfers. My guess is based on this:
• all coaches want to win, some think they can win a national championship, Cori is on board for both, 
• the big money for NIL is probably in the LA market, Cori could wave the prospect for fame and fortune to her potential recruits whether they be in high school or in the portal,
• Cori seems to have a plan — coach the U19, get a highly ranked set of recruits, capture the #1 ranked player in D1, steal another after recruiting her sister,
• Cori is shrewd — she developed a relationship with youthful players, infused in them the idea that, rather than going with an established team they should help build a championship, she knows that recruitment starts with player word-of-mouth,
Cori must be celebrating the portal & NIL. She seems to be working it to a T. And, if the stars align for her, she just might win it all. In any case, her team will be primed to compete with the best of the other budding teams in the Big12.
While, personally, I have never been a fan of her, it seems as though her strategy is going to work. And that has and will affect Stanford for longer than I want to imagine.

Cori has embraced Nil which is more than we can say about Tara but is there some uptick in money flow AND interest in WBB in Westwood specifically and the LA market generally that I am not aware of? I know with 100% certainty that she and her staff were uniquely focused on making sure Kiki Rice got her Nil opportunities because they were concerned she would leave but I am not aware this hyper focus extended to every player on the roster. It looks like Charisma will also benefit next year too. But I am skeptical until I see Londynn Jones driving around in a Tesla, then I will be a believer.

Edited to add: UCLA/USC don’t have Big 10 money yet (and that hasn’t been worked out yet how athletes will share in the TV deal) and UCLA’s athletic Dept was in the red last I heard. If a big donor was writing checks, I’d think that would be the first priority. And after football, MBB, women’s soccer (multi champion), xxx number of other sports before WBB, I wonder what type of money is left over for UCLA WBB (keep in mind, in Cori’s 12 years, UCLA has only reached the Elite 8 once and apparently never (like ever) won the PAC-12 regular season or tourney. Even I didn’t realize the latter.)