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As of now it's 4 years before you can be drafted or graduate in three.    Oer drop out of school for a year to play overseas which has happened.

We just lost two women golfers to the Pro tour.    They aren't elite?   

Another weird tread OF.    Why wouldn't Baylor or UConn or South Carolina lose players?????

They will. But they will also have the ability to recruit more such players in a way Stanford won't. Maybe the fact girls tend to be higher achieving than boys  in general when younger, will mitigate the shrinking of Stanford WBB's pool of available elite recruits because there will still be a good number of Stanford-eligible athletes.  I am skeptical this will be the case.

I am not sure this has that much of an impact since top women's basketball players can already make a lot of money in overseas leagues.  If anything, I think more college players leaving early helps Stanford relative to other schools as our recruits/players must invest a lot of time in high school taking AP classes and preparing for standardized tests.  Those type of players are highly unlikely to leave early whereas top players who only focus on basketball are likely to leave Baylor, South Carolina, Louisville etc ... early

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As of now it's 4 years before you can be drafted or graduate in three.    Oer drop out of school for a year to play overseas which has happened.

We just lost two women golfers to the Pro tour.    They aren't elite?   

Another weird tread OF.    Why wouldn't Baylor or UConn or South Carolina lose players?????

They will. But they will also have the ability to recruit more such players in a way Stanford won't. Maybe the fact girls tend to be higher achieving than boys  in general when younger, will mitigate the shrinking of Stanford WBB's pool of available elite recruits because there will still be a good number of Stanford-eligible athletes.  I am skeptical this will be the case.

I am not sure this has that much of an impact since top women's basketball players can already make a lot of money in overseas leagues.  If anything, I think more college players leaving early helps Stanford relative to other schools as our recruits/players must invest a lot of time in high school taking AP classes and preparing for standardized tests.  Those type of players are highly unlikely to leave early whereas top players who only focus on basketball are likely to leave Baylor, South Carolina, Louisville etc ... early