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Message: [QUOTE="NycUcWbbFan, post: 5295388, member: 13453"] What we have here is a classic case of [URL='https://www.google.com/search?q=arbitrage&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&hl=en-us&client=safari&sei=iLdJaNjAEf7hwN4Pk6T3KA']Arbitrage[/URL], in this case with student-athletes seeking immediate payoff opportunities with another program. Large Arbitrage come into being either as a result of a glitch or a paradigm shift, which NIL and the portal are. The severity of the Arbitrage, above what is popularly deemed reasonable/ permissible, persists longer in not-so-nimbly-regulated markets, which WCBB is. That said… there are reasons to believe the large arbitrage is only [B]temporary[/B] and … For a Cori Close, there is a Mark Campbell or Kim Caldwell. The new paradigm has given bright young coaches (Kara Lawson and Shea Ralph) a faster ramp than Dawn Staley at Temple. It has also given great coaches who are not so great high school recruiters another way to fill rosters with quality players. The WNBA only has limited open slots &0 per year. I don’t begrudge players who have less than even chance of making it into the WNBA to benefit handsomely from this current — and presumably closing as induced by articles such as above over and above the recent House settlement — window of large arbitrage. As I[URL='https://the-boneyard.com/threads/25-26-rotation.207845/post-5285980'] opined[/URL] in another thread, Geno has been a passive beneficiary of the paradigm shift with access to and interest from UConn-type quality players who fill the needs of his roster. The new paradigm has enabled his oldish-newish MO of a full top-down quality roster with all its attendant benefits. I understand that the interviewed self-selected coaches are just bamboo-bending-and-belly-aching at this point to the paradigm [B]jolt[/B] and that to them any [URL='https://the-boneyard.com/threads/can-wbb-teams-catch-up-to-uconn-or-s-carolina-in-a-changing-era.208108/post-5294917']soon course-corrective action [/URL]to the large arbitrage is small comfort. But [B]maybe[/B] they can emulate some of the aspects of Geno’s and Dawn’s programs so that the hand that giveth, giveth more than taketh away. The key question here (at least to me) is: are student athletes better off now than before? Thinking specifically of Evina, Brittany Hunter and [URL='https://www.cnn.com/2014/04/07/us/ncaa-basketball-finals-shabazz-napier-hungry']Shabazz Napier[/URL], highly arguably the answer is yes. &0 Curiously, the new paradigm provides powerful incentives for a player to exhaust all their years of eligibility, rather than leave early to enter the WNBA or to leave WCBB for the start of their, most-likely non-basketball, career. [LIST] [*]Thinking of Azura Stevens, Megan Walker and Azzi Fudd, the new paradigm helps UConn in this regard; [*]The Superteam Era and quality/ experienced players staying only boosts overall WCBB play — as opposed to MCBB where most of the best players jump to the NBA at first chance. [/LIST] [/QUOTE]

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