Dawn Staley promised one recruit she would start — why she’ll never do it again

You can win a national championship, four consecutive SEC tournament titles and advance to five straight Sweet 16s, but in the brutal world of college recruiting, nothing comes easy for anyone, even South Carolina’s Dawn Staley.

“I wish it was an easy process, but it’s never easy because it’s so fluid. Kids are so fickle. One week they like you, one week you get one-word text responses, the next week you get paragraphs. It’s so fluid, it makes it difficult,” Staley told The State in an interview in August.

Granted, things are easier for Staley now that she has all the above-mentioned accomplishments compared to when she first came to USC more than a decade ago. In addition to on-court wins,…