ND recruits as well as we do. They get great talent like Diggins, Loyd, McBride and Turner and they regularly supplement them with outstanding role players like the Mabrey's and Madison Cable. Until Stewie arrived we did not display a competitive advantage over them (in fact we lost 7 of 8 at one point).
Both sides cringe when the other lands a player that was hotly contested, but we haven't out-recruited the Irish; we've outplayed them with Stewart. Let's wait until we see what happens with Walker and the next few bigs before we (BY's) get too jazzed about our upcoming recruiting classes being more impressive than anyone else's.
Come next year ND will have as much talent as anyone. Four or five teams will assume that they are better equipt to win it all than we are, and we will get great satisfaction out of beating a few of them.
But that's next year, six games from now.
Well said.
I'll add that part of what I meant by my post is that ND is set for guards going forward. If Muffet is grinding her teeth, it is over Lauren Cox moreso than Dangerfield, even though Crystal may well be the better player. ND's recruiting concerns seem to be the same as UConn's at present - posts.
Given the quality of perimeter players each has recruited (ND - Mabrey, ArikeO, Patberg, Young, Boley; UConn - KLS, Collier, Danger, Bent, Gordon), a quality post or two for each team should solidify them among the elite teams for the next 4-5 years.
Anyway, not trying to sidetrack the Crystal celebration with this future talk! I look forward to watching Dangerfield in person in just 3 short weeks at the McDonald's game here in Chicago.
Ouch!
