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CBus13 said:


Ohio State's other big with experience in portal.
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Saying this for absolutely no reason, but since McGuff has been the head coach at Ohio State, every year has seen at least one player leave the program.

2013: Shelbi Honeycutt > Hawaii [McGuff's first year, Honeycutt left before playing for him]
2014: Maleeka Kynard > Xavier | Raven Ferguson (dismissed)
2015: Kaylan Pugh > Ga Tech
2016: Theresa Ekehelar > West Virginia | Lisa Blair > Kansas (grad transfer)
2017: Kiara Lewis > Syracuse | Tori McCoy > Marquette (Health Issues have kept her from competing) Chelsea Mitchell > Left the team
2018: Sierra Calhoun > Rutgers
2019: Jensen Caretti > Left Program
2020: Kae Satterfield > Xavier | Aixa Wone Aranaz > Georgia Tech | Kierstan Bell > FGCU | Janai Crooms > Michigan State
2021: Dorka Juahasz > ? | Aaliyah Patty > ?


They haven't all been impact transfers. But he hasn't had an entire recruiting class graduate from Ohio State. And has had three recruiting classes (2015, 2016, 2019 classes) completely leave before their four years were up. One season (2017) with zero high school recruits.
 
CBus13 said:
Saying this for absolutely no reason, but since McGuff has been the head coach at Ohio State, every year has seen at least one player leave the program.

2013: Shelbi Honeycutt > Hawaii [McGuff's first year, Honeycutt left before playing for him]
2014: Maleeka Kynard > Xavier | Raven Ferguson (dismissed)
2015: Kaylan Pugh > Ga Tech
2016: Theresa Ekehelar > West Virginia | Lisa Blair > Kansas (grad transfer)
2017: Kiara Lewis > Syracuse | Tori McCoy > Marquette (Health Issues have kept her from competing) Chelsea Mitchell > Left the team
2018: Sierra Calhoun > Rutgers
2019: Jensen Caretti > Left Program
2020: Kae Satterfield > Xavier | Aixa Wone Aranaz > Georgia Tech | Kierstan Bell > FGCU | Janai Crooms > Michigan State
2021: Dorka Juahasz > ? | Aaliyah Patty > ?


They haven't all been impact transfers. But he hasn't had an entire recruiting class graduate from Ohio State. And has had three recruiting classes (2015, 2016, 2019 classes) completely leave before their four years were up. One season (2017) with zero high school recruits.
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Just when you think Ohio State is showing some signs, they fall back into the "cha cha" of one step forward and two steps back. My quick take:
  • I watched a few OSU games this year and they were a pleasant surprise: played cohesively, as a team, seemed to support each other. When they beat Iowa on the road without Dorka Juhasz in the lineup, they were into it. DJ made the trip and was whooping it up from the sidelines.
  • Madison Greene's absence at the end of the year hurt them. She's awfully quick: good defender and can pretty much break any pressure by herself.
  • Afterwards, Braxtin Miller announces she's coming back. Good sign.
Then
  • Dorka announces she's out
  • Patty joins her, reducing OSU of their starting frontcourt.
So.....
- Did Simon Harris leaving to take a HC job affect them? He was the frontcourt coach.
Or...
- ???? (any input appreciated)

So, now OSU (for now) has a number of good guards (Miller, Jacy Sheldon, Kateri Poole, Greene) and virtually no one up front.
 
Not sure if this one was posted, but an interesting under-the-radar grad transfer who was a solid role player at a Top 25ish program and going to a very strong Mid-Major who is also returning their best player (Macee Williams) for her 5th year.

 
southie said:
A couple more out of Arizona:

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Both barely played. Barnes has brought in quite a few international recruits in recent years, but Pueyo is the only one to make much impact. I guess Alonso too, back to her first year at UA.
 
Dillon77 said:
Just when you think Ohio State is showing some signs, they fall back into the "cha cha" of one step forward and two steps back. My quick take:
  • I watched a few OSU games this year and they were a pleasant surprise: played cohesively, as a team, seemed to support each other. When they beat Iowa on the road without Dorka Juhasz in the lineup, they were into it. DJ made the trip and was whooping it up from the sidelines.
  • Madison Greene's absence at the end of the year hurt them. She's awfully quick: good defender and can pretty much break any pressure by herself.
  • Afterwards, Braxtin Miller announces she's coming back. Good sign.
Then
  • Dorka announces she's out
  • Patty joins her, reducing OSU of their starting frontcourt.
So.....
- Did Simon Harris leaving to take a HC job affect them? He was the frontcourt coach.
Or...
- ???? (any input appreciated)

So, now OSU (for now) has a number of good guards (Miller, Jacy Sheldon, Kateri Poole, Greene) and virtually no one up front.
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He may have but he wasn't even on staff for a full year. So, I don't know how big of an impact he would have had on them staying if he had stayed. As for their reasons? Who knows.

Juhasz is close with Musa Jallow from the Men's team who announced he was transferring before her. (She spent the beginning of the Pandemic at his family's house in Indiana since she couldn't return home to Hungary because of the restrictions.) Is that part of the reason she left? Who knows. Since she has her degree, she could have just been ready for something new.

Patty is a mystery. She improved this season and helped big time when Dorka was out with COVID. She seemed happy. She also liked Arike's tweet about the rise in transfers on twitter. HA So who knows. Her future destination may provide answers ? May not. haha

AC's to leave under McGuff:
Joy Smith (née Cheek) (AC job at Vandy and now at Clemson)
Mark Mitchell (Now a HC on the Men's side for Wilberforce University)
Jennifer Sullivan (AC Job at Tennessee)
Carrie Banks (HC job at Omaha)
Patrick Klein (Improper conduct with student athletes, left job. Also was a coach under Foster)
Simon Harris (HC at ESTU)

Madison's injury did seem to hurt the team more than expected. No one else can handle the Which is interesting since this team is full of guards. HA. Also Greene was originally going to Penn State so...McGuff got lucky that there was a coaching change.

The incoming class consists of two guards as well. Neither are highly ranked.
 
southie said:
Guess we'll see if there's more to this rumor . . .

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Is Moon not coming back? I figured Carr or McDaniel would handle the point. Unless she comes in and the other two slide over
 
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SECbbfan24 said:
Is Moon not coming back? I figured Carr or McDaniel would handle the point. Unless she comes in and the other two slide over
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Moon has not indicated either way, other than not entering the draft. I also don't think we are on the market for a PG, given that Kim brought in Carr midseason and Andrews played pretty well down the stretch. If Baylor looks to the portal, I would expect it to be for a wing/longer guard type to replace Carrington.
 
Figurehead said:
I think both under performed this year compared to the expectations going into the year. Both were given chances to earn more playing time but plateaued. Graves has a chance to upgrade from here. I wish both of them well.
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One thing of interest here. Listened to a campus run sports talk show on the radio and one of the student radio guys said he lived in Arizona and Chavez was on the same flight back to Eugene as he was. It was on the same day Oregon Was playing a game. Does not mean much because she was injured so they say but he apparently thought it was interesting. Neither Chavez or Shelley seemed to fit in with being a backup PG. They were better suited on the team when Ionescu and Moore were on the team. Everyone will be better off next year. Those two players and Oregon.
 
CBus13 said:
He may have but he wasn't even on staff for a full year. So, I don't know how big of an impact he would have had on them staying if he had stayed. As for their reasons? Who knows.

Juhasz is close with Musa Jallow from the Men's team who announced he was transferring before her. (She spent the beginning of the Pandemic at his family's house in Indiana since she couldn't return home to Hungary because of the restrictions.) Is that part of the reason she left? Who knows. Since she has her degree, she could have just been ready for something new.

Patty is a mystery. She improved this season and helped big time when Dorka was out with COVID. She seemed happy. She also liked Arike's tweet about the rise in transfers on twitter. HA So who knows. Her future destination may provide answers ? May not. haha

AC's to leave under McGuff:
Joy Smith (née Cheek) (AC job at Vandy and now at Clemson)
Mark Mitchell (Now a HC on the Men's side for Wilberforce University)
Jennifer Sullivan (AC Job at Tennessee)
Carrie Banks (HC job at Omaha)
Patrick Klein (Improper conduct with student athletes, left job. Also was a coach under Foster)
Simon Harris (HC at ESTU)

Madison's injury did seem to hurt the team more than expected. No one else can handle the Which is interesting since this team is full of guards. HA. Also Greene was originally going to Penn State so...McGuff got lucky that there was a coaching change.

The incoming class consists of two guards as well. Neither are highly ranked.
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If OSU had returned their whole team, I thought they'd be a strong force in the B1G. While they have some fine guards, I'm not really sure Gabby Hutcherson and/or Rebeka Mikulasikova are ready to man the back lines like Dorka Juhasz and Aaliyah Patty did. Don't know who is "out there" forward/post-wise in portal-land, but it would behoove McGuff to do some serious looking.

Given the "mulligan" to players this year, would Patty and Juhasz both have two more years of elibility if they wanted it? If so, Juhasz could get to work on a masters if she's got her undergrad degree.

And for an institution that might have a masters of their choosing, the hoops team could get two years of pertty solid forward work. Wonder if Patty will gravitate (back) to Chicago environs? DePaul?

As for Juhasz: well a bunch of us thought the Hungarian community in South Bend was small(ish) but very spirited. ;)
 
pk1234 said:
Not sure if this one was posted, but an interesting under-the-radar grad transfer who was a solid role player at a Top 25ish program and going to a very strong Mid-Major who is also returning their best player (Macee Williams) for her 5th year.

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She had posted on Twitter that this was more of a personal decision. Her family went through a personal loss and she wanted to be closer to home.
 
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SimpleDawg said:
Mississippi State is a football school?

LSU has lots of successful sports, they're not concerned about women's basketball apart from a couple of ardent fans. Besides.... Fargas hasn't been atrocious, just mediocre. Maybe Fargas still isn't fired because she made 2 out of 3 Sweet Sixteens her first 3 years, and posted 2 out of 3 winning seasons in the SEC. Different ground rules, girl.
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That’s something compared to Chancellor and Chatman. And Coach O just became a head coach won a championship last year. So?
 
DeeHusky said:
LSU has lots of successful sports, they're not concerned about women's basketball apart from a couple of ardent fans. Besides.... Fargas hasn't been atrocious, just mediocre. Maybe Fargas still isn't fired because she made 2 out of 3 Sweet Sixteens her first 3 years, and posted 2 out of 3 winning seasons in the SEC. Different ground rules, girl.
girl that’s good compared to Chatman and Chancellor?
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She hasn’t done anything with a team of her players only. Her best success was with Vans kids. I will give her credit for what she did with that group but it’s been nearly a decade since they won a NCAAT game.

I don’t even think her coaching is that great either at times. She had a team with Pointer, Mitchell, Chloe Jackson, and Moncrief and still got bounced in the first round of NCAAT

All she knows is defense and rebounding. Zero imagination offensively and she refuses to recruit shooters
 
SECbbfan24 said:
She hasn’t done anything with a team of her players only. Her best success was with Vans kids. I will give her credit for what she did with that group but it’s been nearly a decade since they won a NCAAT game.

I don’t even think her coaching is that great either at times. She had a team with Pointer, Mitchell, Chloe Jackson, and Moncrief and still got bounced in the first round of NCAAT

All she knows is defense and rebounding. Zero imagination offensively and she refuses to recruit shooters
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Well.. Mississippi State is gonna reach historic levels of horrible-ness next year on defense and rebounding, so at least Fargas teams can rebound and play defense. 🤣

People are just excited over the Hayes sisters because of the potential offense of Jackson and Anastasia, but our defense is gonna be horrible and rebounding nearly nonexistent.
 
SimpleDawg said:
Well.. Mississippi State is gonna reach historic levels of horrible-ness next year on defense and rebounding, so at least Fargas teams can rebound and play defense. 🤣

People are just excited over the Hayes sisters because of the potential offense of Jackson and Anastasia, but our defense is gonna be horrible and rebounding nearly nonexistent.
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Is Jackson staying?
 
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Dillon77 said:
If OSU had returned their whole team, I thought they'd be a strong force in the B1G. While they have some fine guards, I'm not really sure Gabby Hutcherson and/or Rebeka Mikulasikova are ready to man the back lines like Dorka Juhasz and Aaliyah Patty did. Don't know who is "out there" forward/post-wise in portal-land, but it would behoove McGuff to do some serious looking.

Given the "mulligan" to players this year, would Patty and Juhasz both have two more years of elibility if they wanted it? If so, Juhasz could get to work on a masters if she's got her undergrad degree.

And for an institution that might have a masters of their choosing, the hoops team could get two years of pertty solid forward work. Wonder if Patty will gravitate (back) to Chicago environs? DePaul?

As for Juhasz: well a bunch of us thought the Hungarian community in South Bend was small(ish) but very spirited. ;)
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Yeah, I'm not sure there are any big named bigs in the transfer-portal. It may have to be some mid-major big wanting to try the P5 ranks. It may be difficult to convince a post player to come to tOSU until they hire their replacement for Simon Harris.

I can't see Hutcherson being a paint presence next season. She plays more like a long guard, prefers being away from the basket. Mikulasikova is a big body and can be deceptively quick but sometimes her brain and body move faster than the ball (spin moves before she has a full handle on the ball the big culprit). She almost shot better from three (46%) than she did from inside the arc (50%). All of her stats dropped from her freshman season. Maybe one of the guards can have a significant growth spurt in the off season!

Juhasz has indicated she will use her two years of eligiblity and will be a grad transfer. Patty hasn't made a public declaration about her transfer, but I'm not sure she's a WNBA player, so she may take the two years to get started on her masters (or complete it if she's finished her undergrad degree at tOSU).

I'd imagine Musa Jallow and Juhasz would go to the same school. He is from Indiana. But I could also see her going out West. UCLA maybe, they have a need.
 
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I don't know if the details ever came out but I think Chavez had some personal stuff she had to attend to in Arizona during the year. I believe her grandmother was sick or something like that.

Would be shocked if she doesn't end up at UA. Looks like she just followed Koi Love on IG.
 
SimpleDawg said:
Well.. Mississippi State is gonna reach historic levels of horrible-ness next year on defense and rebounding, so at least Fargas teams can rebound and play defense. 🤣

People are just excited over the Hayes sisters because of the potential offense of Jackson and Anastasia, but our defense is gonna be horrible and rebounding nearly nonexistent.
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Why are you so negative? It is not like you'll lost a bunch of great rebounders to transfer. Anastasia Hayes alone is better than the transfer guards that left M. State.
 
Jordan Lewis family just started following a bunch of the Baylor coaches and Baylor’s social media. Maybe that rumor has legs. That would be a very nice pickup but it sorta makes me think Moon may be moving on
 
shiverz45 said:
Why are you so negative? It is not like you'll lost a bunch of great rebounders to transfer. Anastasia Hayes alone is better than the transfer guards that left M. State.
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Right! Like are you even a fan? If you that pressed about Vic leaving just be a Texas fan and say forget Miss St. And then it’s everyday on every thread
 
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DeeHusky said:
Right! Like are you even a fan? If you that pressed about Vic leaving just be a Texas fan and say forget Miss St. And then it’s everyday on every thread
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Ok.... point made. LOL.
 
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