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Message: [QUOTE="bbsamjj, post: 2422374, member: 1738"] No doubt Geno and UConn will always bring in great players--as they should. What somewhat concerns me though, and this might veer too closely to the dreaded "UConn is bad for WCBB" territory (which I don't agree with), is that it seems like the very best recruits all want to play FOR UConn, but there's doesn't seem to be enough of the top players who want to BEAT UConn. I think it was easier when there was the old Big East, and Muffet and CVS won a lot of recruits by telling them they'd get to compete with UConn twice a year. They could do that because they were both top 25 teams already, so the idea of getting to take on UConn (and maybe even beat them sometimes) didn't seem like a far off dream. As mentioned in another thread, the Diggins ND teams all had the confidence they could compete with and beat UConn--they wanted to play in those annual matchups. Next year, UConn will have THREE/FOUR #1 recruits in the nation. I have no doubt Samuelson, Walker, and Williams will all become great players at UConn. But it's not like former #1 A'ja Wilson hasn't become a great player at South Carolina--in fact, she'll almost certainly be the #1 pick in the draft. EDD still became an Olympian after going to Delaware. In fact, this last Olympic team is basically all former #1 recruits (Charles, Stewie, EDD, Griner, Augustus, Moore, Catchings, Fowles, Taurasi) a top 20 player who was vastly underrated (Bird), and two people who kind of came out of nowhere to be college and WNBA stars (Whalen and McCoughtry). As good a coach as Geno is--and he is the very best--he is only as good as his players. The last time UConn had an extended streak without a championship was the time when he legitimately didn't have the best players in the country. Success begets success, but I personally am more interested in Williams vs Walker than a lineup of Williams AND Walker. [/QUOTE]

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