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Message: [QUOTE="CamrnCrz1974, post: 3292312, member: 1052"] [USER=5823]@CocoHusky[/USER] , it is not about whether [USER=378]@triaddukefan[/USER] and I like it. It is simply what actually happened. On [URL='https://the-boneyard.com/threads/uconn-to-play-tenn-again-in-2020.132161/page-7#post-2812533']August 15, 2018[/URL] and again on [URL='https://the-boneyard.com/threads/how-did-nd-get-so-good.136124/page-2#post-2923661']November 19, 2018[/URL], I explained how Gail Goestenkors leaving Duke in April 2007 led to "rebirths" (if you will) of Notre Dame and Stanford -- or at least created circumstances of which ND and Stanford could take advantage. April 2007 - Gail Goestenkors leaves Duke for Texas. May 2007 - ND hires Niele Ivey as an assistant coach. [LIST=1] [*]When Gail Goesteknors left Duke in 2007, her teams had made 4 Final Fours and 7 Elite Eights in the previous 10 seasons. [*]When Gail left Duke in 2007, her record was 2-2 against Geno Auriemma (winning the last two matchups, both in Connecticut). [*]When Gail left Duke, her record was 5-4 against Pat Summitt (including winning the last three matchups, winning the last two matchups in Knoxville, and going 3-0 against the recruiting class of Parker/Hornbuckle/Fuller/Anosike). [*]Had Goestenkors stayed at Duke, Nneka Ogwumike would have attended Duke (info from Nneka to Alana Beard to my source). [*]Had Nneka gone to Duke, Chiney Ogwumike would have gone to Duke (info from Nneka to Beard to my source). [*]Had G stayed at Duke, Skylar Diggins likely would have gone to Duke (per my source). But Muffet McGraw and Niele Ivey had targeted and recruited Diggins for years; getting her was the beginning of something truly great for the Irish. [/LIST] And Notre Dame was able to leverage Diggins into getting other great recruits -- and to emerge as a perennial national title contender. Stanford used the Ogwumike sisters to also leverage other great players and became a consistent Final Four contender this decade. Had Gail Goestenkors stayed at Duke, I firmly believe that the Blue Devils would have emerged as the new rival for UConn -- or at least continued being the program that could pose a threat to UConn's dominance. The two biggest beneficiaries of Gail Goesktenkors leaving Duke were Muffet McGraw and Tara Vanderveer. And let me repeat - that is what is so frustrating for me, as a Duke grad/fan - to see where the program was, where the program is, and what the program should have become but did not. [USER=378]@triaddukefan[/USER] [USER=26]@EricLA[/USER] [USER=1511]@ucbart[/USER] [USER=2117]@bballnut90[/USER] [/QUOTE]

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