In the end that's whats most important the education.Ryan was my daughter’s host on her recruiting trip to Stanford. She is a great young lady and if I remember correctly a couple of her family members were Stanford alums. Stanford and UCLA get so much talent that not being a consistent starter doesn’t mean that you aren’t a great player. Those teams just get some unique talent. Regarding development honestly you aren’t going to see two teams that do more to develop professional and international players than Stanford and UCLA. Put simply the style of play for the US youth national teams on the women’s side is crap compared to those schools and that is coming from the players. If either of those head coaches were in charge of the USWNT we would have a much better chance of winning the World Cup. I know that Paul doesn’t want the job as he turned it down once already.
When it comes to women’s soccer Cal does little to develop talent and definitely underachieves. The only reason why they have done as well as they have is because of how good the school is and the amount of talent that it naturally attracts. Give Wazzu’s coach that lineup and they would make the final 8 and they would at a minimum be in the sweet 16 every year like the other California PAC 12 schools.
At least you get a world class education there.