The criticisms were loud and constant: college football and blue-chip recruits had passed the old coach by.

But blue-chip recruits kept coming and, with Perkins as athletic director, UConn began treating women's basketball as seriously as men's.

Montgomery, I wrote, had "made peace with the limitations, the below-market salaries and the restrictions on accepting some blue-chip recruits."

The significance of this season for Stanford is that the program has forged a high-level basketball reputation among blue-chip recruits.

He has made peace with the limitations, the below-market salaries and the restrictions on accepting some blue-chip recruits.

To enforce those maxims, it helps to have two full units of blue-chip recruits who, heaven help us, are smart and diverse as well as talented.

Of course, Kentucky will continue to seek blue-chip recruits, Smith said, but preferably those whose vision is compatible with his.

Both players were considered blue-chip recruits and went to the University of Washington.

That would drive some of the blue-chip recruits away from the strong programs and allow other schools to build more quickly.