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Message: [QUOTE="jennyo70, post: 2919499, member: 1223"] It was a brutal recruiting outcome for my team, I agree. -I think it is a combo of factors: The back-to-back scandals w/ the men’s program certainly shines an unwelcome light on the department. -As a result of said scandals, the AD Tom Jurich also loses his job. For all Jurich’s flaws, he was a strong advocate and huge supporter of women’s sports. Losing him really threw a cloud not only over the whole department, but worried folks about the uncertainty of who would take over and their level of dedication to the women’s programs. - All the while we have a massive scandal with the President of the University, who is pushed out. An interim President who is a yes-man to our whacky Governor also drew huge concerns for our University. - Did I mention our whacky Governor? While his home is in louisville, he and his politics don’t really reflect the Louisville area. He has continually undermined the University, he fires the entire Board, and started replacing them with handpicked like-minded folk, again who don’t really mesh with the greater Louisville mindset. Due to his illegal firings of the Board, Louisville’s accreditation was was threatened, put on probation. While the political circus has slowed down and stability is starting to rule again, there is still recovery needed. - Now we have football drama. Meanwhile, a really great AD has been hired. He hit a home run with the basketball hire, he has extended contracts with sports with great success and support ( Walz, our men’s soccer and baseball coaches) and he has had to make some hard coaching decisions, followed by great hires in volleyball, softball and women’s lacrosse. It has been a tumultuous 2 years for the Department on the whole , with lots of fantastic things happening under the new AD. Talk of a great football hire is all the buzz now. All of that is to say it has been very, very difficult, even with great things happening with WBB. - a fantastic President has been hired who is taking our city by storm, she is getting high, high praise across the board ( read stability and putting the past scandal to rest). She is also bringing donors back to the school, who understandably, had left the last few years. -With all that has gone on, the negative press with Walz around the officiating in the F4 game and subsequent 1 game suspension ( NCAA tourney game) couldn’t have helped anything. We are ready for normalcy to return. We are getting there, and if we can get our whacky Governor out next November, that is likely to be the last of the nonsense. We hope. So, while the outcome of this recruiting season is brutal, it is nothing compared to the circus the men’s program, politics and firing and interim appointments have been. We’ll be fine, I am just so bummed for our coaches who have worked their tails off, with all of this going on, to have such a difficult result/outcome. I firmly believe we are ok, as a University, and certainly the women’s program. [/QUOTE]

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