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Message: [QUOTE="Plebe, post: 3734560, member: 6927"] It's really a sign of how tremendously spoiled we've become as UConn fans, to think that anything at all is guaranteed just based on some good recruiting. First of all, other programs are much more developed now than they were in the 2014-2016 period, when UConn lost only one game in three years. Most notably, South Carolina's 2019 recruiting class may be one of the best ever, and their 2021 class (with 3 of the top 4 recruits per HG) may be even better. None of the would-be challengers to UConn were anywhere near that ballpark just from a personnel standpoint when UConn won its 4 straight NCs. Baylor, Oregon, Stanford and others are also much better now than 5 years ago. And while it's fun to muse about it, this is why I doubt we'll be hearing the same accusations of "bad for the game" as what surfaced in the spring of 2016. [/QUOTE]