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Let's just say, for the sake of argument, that 3-4 of our big three juniors and big three frosh were seriously considering hitting the portal.  Who would have the best chance of retaining them:  Kate, Scott Rueck, or Lindy La Rocque?

Interesting question in light of the link from MT quoting Dawn Staley about the portal:

“How much is it going to cost us? That’s the conversation. You’ve got to lead with that,” Staley said as the Gamecocks prepare to face TCU in the Elite Eight of the women’s NCAA Tournament. “Because you don’t really want to waste your time. You either are going to have enough to pay players, or you don’t. And you move on.”

In light of that, I think it would be whichever of them can convince donors to step up and come up with the cash to retain those players.

Also interesting that the TCU coach is bragging about his ability to bring in players through the portal:

“We’ve built our program literally all through the portal, for you guys that haven’t followed us,” Horned Frogs coach Mark Campbell said. “I think we’ve had 18 portal players, six each year. And our program’s come a long ways. There’s a lot of negative you hear about the portal. I think there’s a lot of positive too.”

WBB as we know it is completely different than it was even 5 years ago.

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[BostonCard]

Let's just say, for the sake of argument, that 3-4 of our big three juniors and big three frosh were seriously considering hitting the portal.  Who would have the best chance of retaining them:  Kate, Scott Rueck, or Lindy La Rocque?

Interesting question in light of the link from MT quoting Dawn Staley about the portal:

“How much is it going to cost us? That’s the conversation. You’ve got to lead with that,” Staley said as the Gamecocks prepare to face TCU in the Elite Eight of the women’s NCAA Tournament. “Because you don’t really want to waste your time. You either are going to have enough to pay players, or you don’t. And you move on.”

In light of that, I think it would be whichever of them can convince donors to step up and come up with the cash to retain those players.

Also interesting that the TCU coach is bragging about his ability to bring in players through the portal:

“We’ve built our program literally all through the portal, for you guys that haven’t followed us,” Horned Frogs coach Mark Campbell said. “I think we’ve had 18 portal players, six each year. And our program’s come a long ways. There’s a lot of negative you hear about the portal. I think there’s a lot of positive too.”

WBB as we know it is completely different than it was even 5 years ago.

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