It would have to be frustrating to spend immense amounts of time on a Stokes or a Greenfield and then lose them in the end to the glamour of UConn or Stanford.
I can't comment on BF and staff's recruiting strategies because I simply do not know how they do it or what their focus is. I do know they put out offers to girls as early as 8th or 9th grade based on what they see at Cyclone camps, AAU tournaments, referrals, etc. Certainly, at this stage its all based upon the potential they see in a player and not what the player has actually accomplished.
Based on my years of watching girls basketball, both high school and college, some kids are as good as seniors as they were as freshman...at both levels. They have to be "coached up", certainly. But, perhaps more importantly, the player has to be entirely committed to getting better and better each and every day. The learning, the conditioning and the skills improvement should never stop IF they truly want to excel. Basketball players are made in the off-season. The ones who get better and better from one year to the next are the ones who have put in the time and the hard hard work in the off-season. Finding the individual who is willing to put in the work, every day, is perhaps the greatest challenge for this staff or any coaching staff, for that matter.
