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Message: [QUOTE="CocoHusky, post: 2495491, member: 5823"] I don't remember this particular article being discussed here but the subject matter has been appropriately in separate threads. I’m not sure if there is a correlation between transfer rates, the WCBB scholarship limits, and UCONN’s dominance in WCBB. The analysis and facts presented in this particular article is also very shallow. For example: “[I]Stockton said she thinks an answer is to cut women's basketball scholarships from 15 to 13. That, she said, would prevent coaches in the Power 5 conferences from [B]stockpiling talent[/B]”. [/I]Stockton is not correct. Here are the facts: · There are [B][U]65[/U][/B] Power 5 schools · Among the 65 Power 5 schools only [B][U]16 [/U][/B](Wisconsin, Michigan State, Northwestern, Minnesota, Rutgers, Louisville, Syracuse, Wake Forest, Georgia Tech, Virginia Tech, Washington, Oregon, Arizona, Oklahoma, West Virginia, & Kansas) were at the scholarship limit (15) for the 2016-17 WCBB season. · The number of SEC schools (home of the defending National Champions and the conference of the team which defeated UCONN-MSU) operating at the scholarship limit=[B]ZERO [/B] [B]Sarcastic Conclusion[/B]: If any of these P5 schools really stockpiled talent for the 2016-17 season that was a really really dumb move. So much for the stockpiling talent argument. Decreasing the scholarship limit for WCBB is a very worthwhile discussion (well maybe? ). However, if you reduce the WCBB limit to a level at which most schools are currently operating, what have you really accomplished? [/QUOTE]

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