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If Pat's advantage was that she coached during the nascent stages of the NCAA and prior, then Sue's advantage is that she's coached in an era where 30-win seasons are theoretically easier to come by as an elite team.
With the squad only losing one senior (Lorena Geary) one has to fear the 'Horns next year and perhaps the year after, as again there will only be one player lost next year too.
Scary proposition, especially when you consider the 3 redshirts who'll see action this coming year. It makes you start to understand how to build a program that constantly reloads a la a UConn or Tennessee in real life. I'd see them operate in the game, but never really understood how it happens myself since I'd never built an elite program from the ground up before.
But now that I'm watching it happen, it's sort of fun (also, completely insane) how these things come together and even as they recruit Top 10 class after Top 10 class, you see how hard it is to claim titles year after year.
So with that, let's get to Season 15.
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