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Message: [QUOTE="Carnac, post: 3215935, member: 5798"] I ran across this article and wanted to share. This was the best place I could find to post it. I didn't want to start a new thread just for this article alone, but it has to to with recruiting and UConn's involvement in it. [URL='https://www.thestate.com/sports/college/university-of-south-carolina/usc-recruiting/article232462357.html'][SIZE=5][B]Dawn Staley struck recruiting gold for the class of 2019. What does 2020 look like?[/B][/SIZE][/URL] Staley is upping her game. She knew she could handle to X's and the O's, and could coach her teams deep into the post season. She also knew that recruiting was not her strong suit. So she hired someone that was was one of the most successful and proven recruiters in the country. Enter [URL='https://www.youtube.com/watch?reload=9&v=9cxxWTBb2fQ'][B]Jolette Law[/B][/URL] (center). [ATTACH type="full" alt="44780"]44780[/ATTACH] South Carolina head women’s basketball coach Dawn Staley with assistant coaches, [B]Jolett Law[/B] and Lisa Boyer during a practice. Jolette Law is an assistant coach for the South Carolina Gamecocks Women's Basketball team. She was previously a Tennessee Lady Volunteers basketball assistant for 5 years, and before that, the Illinois Fighting Illini women's basketball head coach in addition to being a Harlem Globetrotter from 1991–1994. [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jolette_Law']Wikipedia[/URL] Much of the Gamecock's recent success in recruiting can be directly linked to Law. She is a master recruiter, and doesn't appear to have a problem recruiting BIGS. South Carolina and UConn recruit the same players. We lost a highly coveted post player to them recently, [URL='http://www.espn.com/espnw/sports/article/25331760/no-3-prospect-aliyah-boston-joins-talented-crowd-heading-dawn-staley-south-carolina-gamecocks']Aliyah Boston[/URL]. Couple this with the proven recent success that other other recruiters from the elite programs have had such as Niele Ivey (Notre Dame), and Samantha Williams and now Jonneshia Pineda (Louisville), and of course there's Kim Mulkey (Baylor) and Brenda Frese at Maryland. Mark Campbell spearheads recruiting at Oregon. Vic Schaefer is a tireless recruiter at Mississippi State, and now is able to attract top 25 recruits since becoming a top 5 program. We know that All of these programs vie for the same recruits. Each lead recruiter looking to put a notch on their belt by securing that "special" BIG name top 5 recruit, or the top rated class every year. SC is not going away anytime soon, and will continue to be an elite program that UConn will have to contend with in recruiting the elite players coming out of high school every year. Law's recent success speaks for itself. She was brought in [U]specifically[/U] to be the recruiting coordinator. The Gamecocks have the #1 recruiting class for 2019. Staley has already shown that SC is more than willing to accept transfers from other programs (Allisha Gray, Kaela Davis, T'ea Cooper, etc.). I think it's fair to say that Dawn plans on the Gamecocks being in the conversation about winning national championships EVERY year for the foreseeable future. [/QUOTE]

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