Why would any fan on a Message Board know anything about what a College Basketball Head Coach and his staff are planning or what recruits they are pursuing. There are Recruiting Services and reporters whose job it is to know such information and they are wrong in many instances.
This would be true if you talking about a generic message board. The Boneyard is much more advanced and includes a splash page tracking UCONN interest or lack of in certain WCBB recruits. Do you not have the URL?
I hope she ends up at ND, but Tenn is so desperate for highly rated recruits that I'm sure they will pull out all the stops. Maybe hire a full sized blimp to drop the offer letter in her lap via a Navy Seal parachutist...
No I don't, I'm not really a follower of recruiting. I believe the athletes should be allowed to make their decisions unencumbered by the opinions of people who don't know them and have never seen them play in most cases. Once an athlete signs an NLOI, then I'll get interested.
I can see that, though I doubt very much if any recruits are encumbered by any opinion that is written here. At least I hope not.
I agree with your premise, but you know there are parts of every fanbase who have no life other than the teams they support. They try to engage recruits on the social media platforms, I assume to make themselves feel connected to the process somehow. The incident last night with the Texas A&M Football Coach and the subsequent tweets from their fanbase confirms to me that I'm on the correct path.
Coach McGraw, after the 2015-2016 wrap-up dinner, said she they were targeting bigs and a guard/wing.
So, even if Ms. White would end up transferring, we're still in need of (at least) another forward. And that guard...yes, the one we seem to have in common.
Welcome and good luck with your coaching. I think you will find that the majority of this board is ALL IN on Megan and ALL OUT on Rellah. Also believe Westbrook and Richards were BOTH OUT on UCONN by their own choices in down selecting. Rellah "rough edges" are troubling enough to be left off USA basketball U16 team last summer and hopefully she got the message. Of course the ultimate trick is not to develop the rough edges in the first place-reason #1 why we are ALL IN on Walker.
Certainly seen a lot of praise for Boothe's skills from folks that have watched her, but it isn't all about uniqueness in terms of great players - coachability, attitude, motor, desire, and 'plays well with others' are all major factors. I have absolutely no idea where players stand on any of those qualities and do not watch much HS game film so am making no judgements. But Walker has consistently been seen as the best HS player in her class and possibly within the classes on either side of her as well. She does not stand out in terms of size, speed, leaping ability, or other simple measurements, so there must be a quality to her play that has set her apart. You can look around at the history of women's basketball and with the vast majority of the icons of the game are not unique physically, but stand out mentally and in the quality of the skills they possess - for every Griner there are 5 or more players like Swoopes, DT, Catchings, Moore, or Lieberman who don't stand out on the floor, at the jump, but immediately distance themselves as the play begins. (You see it in the men's game as well.)
Thanks. Appreciate the response.
Thank you, very good to know that Mikayla has some very good other options like PSU, Georgia, & Stanford.
Orangutan - what I mean by simple measurables is not that they are not great athletes - every player in the WNBA is a great athlete - what I mean is Catchings or Moore would not win a race with all other 5' 11" - 6'2" pro basketball players, they would not have greater arm length, nor the best jumping ability, or the best arm strength or leg strength - to use your analogy, they wouldn't be the athletic 'freaks' that appear every year at the NFL combine - the 6'4 receiver that runs a sub 4.3 40 yard dash, jumps up into the top 50 picks, and gets cut after two years because he just isn't a good football player. What makes Moore and Catchings iconic is all those things that are not physically measurable. EDD and now Breanna are 'freakish' because they do things that 6'4+" players haven't been able to do before and if they also have all those immeasurable qualities of Catchings and Moore they will become iconic too, but Moore and Catchings have done it while 'confined' within 'average' (for WNBA players) athletic bodies.
Before she worries about the next level, Boothe said she wants to work on her attitude and on having positive body language. One time she missed a double-double -- seven points and 11 rebounds against Smyrna (Tennessee) -- when she was thrown out in the third quarter for talking back to an official.
Pending @SkilledUp explanation of what he meant this is not the first time I have heard this type of cautionary phrase used in relation to Rellah Boothe. That does not make it accurate especially when we are talking about a teenager. But none the less it is out there. Rellah burst onto the scene in August 2014 after Adidas nationals where her and Jade Williams were though to be the two most promising players. Last spring she tried out for the USA basketball U16 team and was not selected. If you read any of the daily reports from the trials she was widely regarded as the most talented & spectacular player during the trials by people like Mike Flynn who had a ring side seat for all days of the trials. So how does the most talented player not make the U16 team? She was not a team player=rough edge #1 . In the aftermath of the trials she had some well intended ( but completely misguided) AAU types that created a fire storm of protest by trashing the selection as biased against "southern" players=rough edge #2. These same strap hanging AAU types also posted on Youtube a highly doctored hype tape of the USA basketball trials titled "Rellah Boothe Grown Woman" . The clear implication being Rellah was a woman playing among girls at the trials and should have been selected=rough edge #3 because Rellah has two more years of prep basketball to play. Rellah played on a very good nationally ranked HS team, her team was good enough to beat Crystal Dangerfield's Blackman #1 at the time with Rellah putting up Monster mumbers had 37 points and 22 rebounds in the victory- she was just a sophomore. This summer Rellah left that high school and enrolled in IMG Academy- Rough edge #4 because although the orchestrators/strap hanging AAU types would have you believe she enrolled at IMG for "academic" reasons common sense tells you otherwise. Rough Edges and UCONN/Geno not compatible.
Sounds like a certain Tennessee player with the initials DD.
Well said man. However, aside from the tangibles and metrics used to measure talent, there is no analytic for heart and the will to better oneself; to be a part of something special. To contribute. Nor the will to exceed. Walker seams to be one of the elite few with measurables and intangibles. That's why we at the BY are so "All in".