The growth of the sport has created much deeper classes of talent going forward. Women's college lacrosse will keep MD, NW, Cuse, and BC as the big 4 going forward because all 4 have great coaches that recruit top players and can draw from the portal. There are a lot of other great coaches out there that are getting great talent that wasn't in as much supply 5-10 years ago. The talent gap is getting much smaller between schools in the top 20 and coaching will be the difference more than ever before.
Hard to take this seriously without UNC being in your top 4. BC has earned it the last 5 years and MD certainly is still the all-time program. Cuse has never won a natty and Northwestern last appeared in the finals/won one in 2012 (over ten years ago now). UNC clearly ahead of them, although they are probably 4th and 5th.
