I've been meaning to reply to this for the last few weeks and just keep forgetting. One thing you have to consider is that CU hasn't had a season in which they won more than 20 games since 2003-04. That's when these young ladies were 10. They basically grew up thinking of CU as a "middle of the road" program, and that's if we're lucky because there were some REALLY bad years thrown in there. Meanwhile, UConn, Duke, etc. are appearing on national TV numerous times a year and appearing in Final Fours right and left. They have sent numerous women to the WNBA whereas we've only been able to send
three.
I have complete confidence that Lappe is going to get us back to the Ceal Barry days, but I'm honestly not sure if I can get angry at a local girl who wants to go to Duke or UConn right now.
In 3 years however, I expect the border to be closed.