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Message: [QUOTE="Bone Dog, post: 5102006, member: 12088"] This is an interesting phrase. In effect, we’d be asking if a program has produced a player who can continue the winning [B]identity[/B] established by her coach… [B]at the same school[/B]. We might take as a benchmark a player who returns to an NC-winning program and wins an NC [B]there[/B]. This would be an alternative to measuring salaries or other indicators of institutional investment. This version of the blue blood question is about [B]the school[/B]. However, an implication of posing the question in terms of identity is that the institutional connection might be a red herring. A different version of the blue blood question might be, “How many coaches who have won an NC have trained players who went on to win an NC as a coach at any school?” This version asks about the quality of a coach’s program as a tradition that can be replicated by one of its students [B]anywhere[/B]. Omitting the institution and focusing on the coaches and players also fits the genealogical sense of the term “blue blood.” Off the top of my head, I can’t think of any players who have been able to replicate their coach’s success (ie winning an NC) as a coach in their own right. The closest candidate would be Dawn, who played in three Final Fours and one NC under Debbie Ryan at UVA, and went on to coach SC to NCs. Pat, Tara and Geno have won NCs, but their students haven’t replicated their achievement … yet. Only Kate Paye is in a position to accomplish this [B]at the same school[/B]. Time will tell. [/QUOTE]

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