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Fall non-UConn recruiting thread

militarydog said:
Even with the schools in the SEC that are not very good the football game weekends are normally a very big event. I’ve been to some Big Ten and ACC schools on their football weekends and it appears to be a similar experience. It may be just my limited experience but most of the big football atmospheres are in locations with limited pro sports competing for fans.
In grad school I worked for the athletic department and most recruits from all sports would be brought in during big football weekends as there was a large selection of “youth related activities” for them to attend such as fraternity parties or concerts that coincided with the weekends. Recruits and their families would visit the academic departments and athletic facilities on Friday and be taken around to the different tailgates before the game on Saturday. They would then go to the game but often the non football recruits would not stay the entire game. The players take out the recruits on Friday and Saturday nights.
Mississippi State along with some of the other SEC schools have big baseball followings. It is not unusual to have 8,00 to 10,000 attend the Friday, Saturday and Sunday weekend series with many more family members in town but not attending the games. There are tailgates and other collateral events for that. The biggest weekend will have a football spring game in addition to the baseball series. MSU will also have fall squad scrimmages during football weekends that draw a lot of fans.
We had some recruiting weekends after football season during a big basketball game weekend but it really doesn’t compare to the massive weekend long numbers of the other two time periods. Even during the heights of our men’s and women’s programs we would sell out the coliseum but depending on the time of the game a majority of the fans would drive in and drive out the same day.
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You described Super Bulldog Weekend there and it was always a good time when I attended.
 
erynlei4 said:


Purdue gets another commit from Mary Ashley Groot (#65 in 2023). She is their 5th 2023 commit and 2nd top 100
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I watched her play at Dalton (I live literally a stone's throw away). Not much competition in her league. She's made a good choice in schools.
 
nwhoopfan said:
My goodness UW is raking in the guards. That's 7 in '22 and '23 classes.

edit--6 of them have been in Hoopgurlz Top 100; certainly upping the talent level, but I'm wondering how many of them can actually fit in the rotation
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It looks like you have fun times ahead in Seattle!
 
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Lorcan said:
It's scary times indeed when you've lost five straight to the mighty Cougars.
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Do I really have to count the one the Dawgs gave away by shooting about 10% on their FTs in an overtime game?


edit--only slightly exaggerating; they were 6-21 for 28.6%, it's really not even possible to shoot that poorly on freebies, but somehow they did it
 
nwhoopfan said:
Do I really have to count the one the Dawgs gave away by shooting about 10% on their FTs in an overtime game?


edit--only slightly exaggerating; they were 6-21 for 28.6%, it's really not even possible to shoot that poorly on freebies, but somehow they did it
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Perhaps they should've asked if they could shoot their free throws from behind the arc, as they went 6-14 from three. The same number of free throws that they sunk that game.
 
erynlei4 said:


Ari Long to Washington (#49 in 2023), their 3rd top 100 commit
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Wow! What a luxury to have this problem!

I do recall Long saying she might prefer to leave home for college but I still figured USC might have the inside track b/c of how crowded UW was at guard.

There's a lot of buzz about Sellers being the first McD's AA from Alaska. I would imagine she is the only "sure" starter for the West Coast Huskies?

Olivia Anderson 6'6" gives them size, but despite some high rankings, her list of offers was sparse with elite programs so they're probably going to still be needing posts.
 
Kylie Marshall '23, #18 in ESPN rankings, is announcing her commitment today. Between Arizona, Oklahoma, Oklahoma State, and TAMU. I assume it's going to be TAMU, but that's only because Coach Taylor tweeted "gig 'em" last night. I have zero insight otherwise.
 
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cancontent said:


For the non-Uconn fans curious about Fournier's options. Have at it!
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How IS the order of the schools decided in these posts? Is is totally random, visual appeal....it never seems indicative of where they end up, so I always wonder
 
cancontent said:


For the non-Uconn fans curious about Fournier's options. Have at it!
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She strikes me as a Stanford player , but the only serious contender's i see her going to with her style of play would be UCONN , Stanford , Arizona or Duke ....
 
Ladeeeeda said:
How IS the order of the schools decided in these posts? Is is totally random, visual appeal....it never seems indicative of where they end up, so I always wonder
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I've always looked at these as marketing pieces for the player and the school. Visuals are definitely part of it, but there's a strategy behind it.

The marketing team behind this did a good job at the visuals and the story to build up the hype. Leading off with the 2 top programs will catch everyone's attention.
 
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cancontent said:
I've always looked at these as marketing pieces for the player and the school. Visuals are definitely part of it, but there's a strategy behind it.

The marketing team behind this did a good job at the visuals and the story to build up the hype. Leading off with the 2 top programs will catch everyone's attention.
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I guess, but my eyes see Michigan before anything else bc it is yellow
 
triaddukefan said:
I don't like a few of those schools popping up on the list. Tired of them to be honest. No offense to those schools.

* Looked at the list again... tired of 6 schools always popping up on these lists.
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Well Arizona and UCLA both make a ton of cut lists, so I'm guessing those are 2 of the 6.
 
nwhoopfan said:
Well Arizona and UCLA both make a ton of cut lists, so I'm guessing those are 2 of the 6.
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I'm ok with Duke and Michigan being on these lists. I guess Stanford isn't on all the lists... but I'm tired of them too.
 
triaddukefan said:
I'm ok with Duke and Michigan being on these lists. I guess Stanford isn't on all the lists... but I'm tired of them too.
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Process of elimination, I was gonna guess Michigan was the one other one you weren't tired of.

Very slowly, I think more top recruits are starting to pick more than just the same 'ol same 'ol schools every year. But then Arizona is really new to this, and if you're already sick of them, not sure what you can do.
 
Well, if it helps!
Kylie Marshall (5’11” CG, #18 on ESPN) chose Texas A&M this afternoon. Arizona was in her top four though.
 
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Jolette Law needs some type of recognition from the NCAA for being one of if not the best recruiters year and year out these last 20 years. Dawn knew the program was going to take off when Law switched from Tenn to SC.
 
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