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[QUOTE="ERWUC65, post: 4998773, member: 13052"]
11 championships over the last 29 years is a unparalleled, unique accomplishment, but one could say done in an era of women's college basketball that we will never see again.   An era dominated by a handful of great programs, built thru great coaching and great recruiting in a relatively controlled and structured environment where athletics and academics were in balance.    Now we have entered a new era, one where NIL, the portal and conference realignments have totally restructured the environment.   Now the emphasis is on building super teams, select schools collecting the best players ad nauseum, to the detriment of the sport and destroying the last remnants of competition and parity.   South Carolina started this trend two to three years ago, resulting in a depth of 10-12 players all of whom were stars at their prior schools, and the results are obvious.   Now, just to keep up, we have ND, USC, Texas, UCLA, LSU, etc. employing the same strategy and one might say they are emulating South Carolina.  Should UConn do the same?   I hope not, but it may be necessary just to stay the course and keep the program relevant.
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