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Message: [QUOTE="UcMiami, post: 4054243, member: 199"] I know there is more talent coming into college ball and therefore more talent playing in wcbb, but I am not sure there is much more 'parity'. There is still an elite set of teams, and a bunch of also rans, just as there was in the 1990s and 2000s and 2010s. There has always been a level of rotation into and out of the 'elite' teams based on coaching and recruiting cycles and there have also been anomalous years where a few elite teams stumbled and upstarts broke into the FF and even won an NC. But the idea that there is a significant sea change in the competitive universe seems to me to be questionable. Look at the conferences: Pac 12 - Stanford has dominated since the 1990s SEC - TN since the 1990s followed by SC in the 2010s ACC - UNC and Duke traded dominance until expansion when ND took over Big12 - TX followed by OK, followed by Baylor Big 10 - OSU followed by MD Uconn - dominated whatever conference they were in regardless of strength of the conference since the 1990s. There have always been a few conference teams outside the leader who have provided challenges and might have broken through for a year or two but over time they were 'one team leagues'. The difference with Uconn and every other elite team is they almost never lose to inferior teams where the others consistently include clunkers in their seasons. SC and Baylor have recently been the second and third most consistent teams. [/QUOTE]