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Message: [QUOTE="CocoHusky, post: 2843282, member: 5823"] There is obviously a strong correlation between recruiting success and on court performance but the former does not "guarantee" the latter . UCONN is still overwhelmingly winning the recruiting wars if measured by transcendent players with Maya & Stewie being the last two. UCONN is also winning recruiting as measured by most number one recruits with KML, Stewie, KLS, MW, & CW being the most recent. In the last 10 recruiting class UCONN has gotten #1 player 6 times. Only one other school (Baylor) has gotten the #1 player more than once. I'm assuming you envision ND as one of the programs that has ascended, but in the last 10 recruiting class ND has never had the #1 player and ND has not signed a top 10 player in either of the last two (2017 & 2018). Obviously a big exclusion because Shepard was a transfer. SC has certainly ascended on the strength only 1 # overall player. So to partially answer your first question, no I don't see a need to tweak the recruiting strategy because of the ascendency of other programs: 1) UCONN is winning the recruiting battle 2) Winning the recruiting battle is no guarantee of on court success 3) Most importantly, the UCONN process still produces players that are a best fit for the UCONN system-which remains unchanged. Tweaking the UCONN recruiting process for player attitudes is a different matter, but I believe this tweaking has already been done and will be continuous. If you Google "Geno Auriemma harder to recruit the right kids" you will come up with at least 1/2 dozen videos ( all of which have been posted here) of Geno explaining why it getting harder to recruit the right kids. This is an on going generational thing and despite what Geno is saying he has adjusted successfully and is still [B]The Best[/B] at it. Rebecca Lobo, DT, Maya Moore, Stewie, MW, CW and Haley Jones might be considered different generations depending on where you want to draw the line. What they all have in common though is that when Geno comes calling they have answered the call-even if sometimes Mom or dad didn't necessarily want their daughter heading to Storrs. [/QUOTE]

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