[81alum]

Then let's talk specifics.  Which recruits have we actually lost to anyone over the last couple of years?  And if/when we have lost them, have we lost them to younger coaches?  Once Tara finds a recruit she wants, if that recruit gets past admissions then I think we are batting close to 100%. 

For that matter, we always seem to beat UConn if the recruit is Stanford admissible.  This year we have Karlie Samuelson and Erica McCall coming in, who were each coveted by Geno at various stages.  As was Chiney.  Our pool is quite limited because not all of the top talent has a reasonable prospect of getting admitted.  This also leads to some self-selection, I imagine.  But I am not aware of a single prospect that we recruited, admitted, and who turned us down to go to a younger coach.

It is an interesting hypothesis that oldsters like me would find plausible, but I don't actually think it is true.

[81alum]

Then let's talk specifics.  Which recruits have we actually lost to anyone over the last couple of years?  And if/when we have lost them, have we lost them to younger coaches?  Once Tara finds a recruit she wants, if that recruit gets past admissions then I think we are batting close to 100%. 

For that matter, we always seem to beat UConn if the recruit is Stanford admissible.  This year we have Karlie Samuelson and Erica McCall coming in, who were each coveted by Geno at various stages.  As was Chiney.  Our pool is quite limited because not all of the top talent has a reasonable prospect of getting admitted.  This also leads to some self-selection, I imagine.  But I am not aware of a single prospect that we recruited, admitted, and who turned us down to go to a younger coach.

It is an interesting hypothesis that oldsters like me would find plausible, but I don't actually think it is true.