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Message: [QUOTE="oldhusky, post: 4687549, member: 9844"] All of the alumni are pretty consistent with their praise of how UConn prepared them for the next level, but in particular it helps with the Bigs. UConn has generally been considered more of a "guard" school of preference and less so for the very top bigs. I think that distinction was undeserving, but even if we didn't get say Wilson, Boston, Brink etc., the bigs we did recruit have done very well on the next level relative to their natural abilities. Liv and Dorka were not high WNBA picks but are doing much better than their draft status would suggest, and a-lot of that appears to be because they were well schooled and prepared. Kia Stokes is also as others have mentioned an example of someone with obvious offensive limitations and never a starter at UConn who has carved out a very nice WNBA career. There have been some recruiting misses on the very best bigs, but we have done quite nicely with the ones we did get, and they probably achieved their potential as well as any other program have done, so I don't think the argument that top bigs should go elsewhere has any evidence behind it, and it shouldn't really adversely affect our future recruiting, but I'm sure it is an argument that some of our competition will make anyway. [/QUOTE]