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Message: [QUOTE="TheFarmFan, post: 4641965, member: 9403"] Tara basically vocalized what many fans have long fretted about: the 1+2+3 punch of the transfer portal, no one-year transfer sit-out period, and NIL-related recruitment leaves Stanford at the losing end of the seismic changes in WBB. We basically can almost never recruit from the portal, but with NIL money and no one-year wait, there's endless opportunities for other coaches to try to poach our players. (And this is to stay nothing of the Pac-12/10's issues...) As sad as it is to say, I've personally just become consigned to the fact that Stanford has probably seen its last sustained stretch of being a Top 10 team for the foreseeable future. I just don't see how we compete in this landscape. Thankfully (or not), since I also find all the transferring and NIL money rather distasteful, I'll confess that I'm losing a bit of interest in WCBB, so this doesn't burn as much for me as it would have had I known this back in April 2021, or what I will henceforth refer to as "the g'olden days." :( And honestly, I'm just so thankful for that 2021 championship season - Tara got the monkey off her shoulder, and I got see my team win a championship. Not a perfect storybook ending, but I'll take it. [/QUOTE]