[spike5882]

I don't now if I would say it's playing a role.  We have the #3 recruiting class this year.  This class was signed by Paye.  The last time we were this high was in 2019.  We are never really in the hunt for the top player or two...they tend to go to UConn or South Carolina, or more recently USC.  But this years frosh class is our best in quite some time.  Somfai is ranked as high as #2 in polls.  Her rankings vary a bit since a foreign player, but she is very highly regarded.  And Swain is more highly regarded than Kiana Williams was.  So...I am not sure Tara leaving has had a brobdingnagian impact.  But of course we will see in the next few years.  But as a team, we have always had top 10 classes, but having a top 3 class has been pretty few and far between for us.  We might snag the occasional superstar, but it really hasn't been that often.  Getting Haley Jones and Brink a year apart from each other was a rarity, not the norm for us.

[spike5882]

I don't now if I would say it's playing a role.  We have the #3 recruiting class this year.  This class was signed by Paye.  The last time we were this high was in 2019.  We are never really in the hunt for the top player or two...they tend to go to UConn or South Carolina, or more recently USC.  But this years frosh class is our best in quite some time.  Somfai is ranked as high as #2 in polls.  Her rankings vary a bit since a foreign player, but she is very highly regarded.  And Swain is more highly regarded than Kiana Williams was.  So...I am not sure Tara leaving has had a brobdingnagian impact.  But of course we will see in the next few years.  But as a team, we have always had top 10 classes, but having a top 3 class has been pretty few and far between for us.  We might snag the occasional superstar, but it really hasn't been that often.  Getting Haley Jones and Brink a year apart from each other was a rarity, not the norm for us.