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Message: [QUOTE="ballerfan, post: 4280370, member: 11596"] Just to be clear, Dawn recruited Paige and wanted her to play at South Carolina, but Paige’s dream was UConn. Still, South Carolina was on Paige’s short list. After Paige got injured in the ND game, Dawn sent out a tweet saying that Paige was a generational player and that she was praying for her. Geno recruited Boston, and Boston seriously considered UConn. UConn might have ended second in her decision making. It was reported that Boston cried after giving Geno the news that she was going to South Carolina. Although it has been reported that some players want a coach that looks like them (a women or an African American or both), they also want to win, and many are attracted to Geno and his success. Patterson and Brady, for example. The bigger problem in my mind is the increasing number of great high school players these days, and they can’t all play for SC, UConn, and Stanford. Bad for UConn but great for the sport. As I’ve said elsewhere, the biggest challenge for UConn will be Geno’s retirement. If they can’t find a high profile, exciting replacement, UConn is going to lose the talent search. But I’m a bleed blue fan, and I’ll support UConn even if it goes 0-30. Still, I want UConn to dominate. [/QUOTE]