Odd factlet about Baylor wbb recruiting
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More likely, just one to try and keep local talent home.
And, to be sure, Baylor as a university with its "chapel time" requirements may not appeal to folks from the "Godless" coasts, for example.
And, to be sure, Baylor as a university with its "chapel time" requirements may not appeal to folks from the "Godless" coasts, for example.
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And don't forget, Baylor didn't originally sign her. She was at Illinois first.
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Given the amount of talent in Texas, why would you concentrate anywhere else?
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Plus , IIRC, they have a pipeline to the DFW Elite through one of the assistant coaches. Wasn't he hired during (or in the lead-up to) the Griner signing? But I may have my facts wrong and stand to be corrected.
Mind you, I'm not trying to improve her national footprint - but do the math: Texas represents only 8% of the US population. Not every future Griner is going to be born in the Lone Star State.
Square mileage doesn't count for squat in the middle of the Gobi Desert, you know.
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Kim has had players from Florida to upper midwest to California to New York--just not in great measure. She's also had quite a steady turnover of the assistant coaches in charge of scouting/ recruiting. The past 4-5 years the recruiting position on our staff has been in flux (ie. Aston from UT several years ago only stayed one year).
Last year she brought back the assistant coach in charge of scouting/recruiting who had left four years ago due to health issues. Originally she came from La. Tech with Kim and knows how Kim thinks and what she's looking for. She was the one who found the gem in the rough of Sophia Young and who got on and stayed on Griner.
Like many head coaches, Kim hates the travel of recruiting. Both of her kids have been state championship calibre in high school athletics and she has been brutally candid--kids come before career, so unless she has a ladybear game, she WILL be watching them play, regardless of sport or season. A priority some head coaches reverse. She also doen't soft-sell the fact if they want to play at Baylor they WILL sacrifice some of their scoring as the team's leaing scorer (what most recruits have been their entire career) for learning how to play defense and if that's not something they're willing to do Baylor is not the place for them. We lose some with that.
Hopefully with our returned recruiter (single and available to stay on the road) we'll see a more comprehensive nation-wide coverage in the next few years. But I tend to agree somewhat that if you recruit and can get Texas's best, you've got a pretty good class.
With the Tennessee mystique now fading, you guys may be the only Program in the nation who simply by name automatically get top recruits' interest.
Last year she brought back the assistant coach in charge of scouting/recruiting who had left four years ago due to health issues. Originally she came from La. Tech with Kim and knows how Kim thinks and what she's looking for. She was the one who found the gem in the rough of Sophia Young and who got on and stayed on Griner.
Like many head coaches, Kim hates the travel of recruiting. Both of her kids have been state championship calibre in high school athletics and she has been brutally candid--kids come before career, so unless she has a ladybear game, she WILL be watching them play, regardless of sport or season. A priority some head coaches reverse. She also doen't soft-sell the fact if they want to play at Baylor they WILL sacrifice some of their scoring as the team's leaing scorer (what most recruits have been their entire career) for learning how to play defense and if that's not something they're willing to do Baylor is not the place for them. We lose some with that.
Hopefully with our returned recruiter (single and available to stay on the road) we'll see a more comprehensive nation-wide coverage in the next few years. But I tend to agree somewhat that if you recruit and can get Texas's best, you've got a pretty good class.
With the Tennessee mystique now fading, you guys may be the only Program in the nation who simply by name automatically get top recruits' interest.
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It is a larger percentage of Webb talent though. In addition to their roster, players from Tx: chiney, bone, moriah, Simmons, two of 2014 top ten, many more.
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Duke has national reach.
Yeah, but somehow the vaunted Dynasty has yet to produce its first Emperor.
Just noticed you reshaped my claim without commenting about that. I suggested Baylor is a regional recruiting power, and didn't say they weren't present outside of Texas.
You have to admit, Baylor's reach is overwhelmingly southern.
Similarly for Pope, to the chagrin of Rutgers.
Over the decades, nearly every school has had players from around the country. That argument doesn't carry much weight. The question posited was whether Baylor is still merely a regional recruiting power.
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7/13 current roster spots are from Texas.
From there, Williams (Michigan), Madden (Arkansas), Johnson, (Alabama), Prince, (Florida), Chandler (Georgia).
Take a snapshot of our Pre Griner years starting team included New York, California, Colorado + 2 Texas girls.
Just a sampling.
No need to try to prove anything, but the argument that over time we don't get outside of Texas or the deep south region is a bit shaky.
From there, Williams (Michigan), Madden (Arkansas), Johnson, (Alabama), Prince, (Florida), Chandler (Georgia).
Take a snapshot of our Pre Griner years starting team included New York, California, Colorado + 2 Texas girls.
Just a sampling.
No need to try to prove anything, but the argument that over time we don't get outside of Texas or the deep south region is a bit shaky.
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So if you are of a religious persuasion that sends you somewhere other than a chapel (a temple, a mosque, a synagogue, etc), you still have to go to chapel? Or is chapel here a euphemism for any place of worship (i.e., you can be of any religious persuasion except atheist)? Or are you just not admitted to the university?
Just looking to understand the requirement, not to start an argument.
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Students are admitted on the basis of academics. PERIOD. We openly acknowledge our historic connection to Baptist/Protestant/Christian roots and ongoing Christian identity in our student life--no compusion to attend church but we do require minimal attendance at what is called "Chapel" (part Christian /part current events of all kinds in its programming). Students of non-Christian religions are welcome, but they also know of Baylor's historic Christian heritage and practices in every piece of literature they receive in the application process.
Yes, when you come to Baylor you know there is a certain slice of its culture related to the above. It is not overwhelming but I'm sure our many Buddhist, Hindi, etc. students at times feel that way.
When you are a private, Christian university you are free to set some parameters of campus life that state universities can not set. Would be as if a good little Baptist boy wanted to go to Notre Dame. He knows what he's going to encounter as he walks underneath Touchdown Jesus and sees a number of prof/admins in their priestly garb.
Yes, when you come to Baylor you know there is a certain slice of its culture related to the above. It is not overwhelming but I'm sure our many Buddhist, Hindi, etc. students at times feel that way.
When you are a private, Christian university you are free to set some parameters of campus life that state universities can not set. Would be as if a good little Baptist boy wanted to go to Notre Dame. He knows what he's going to encounter as he walks underneath Touchdown Jesus and sees a number of prof/admins in their priestly garb.
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Thanks for the explanation baylorprof. I hadn't thought of "chapel" in terms of current events. Maybe it's like reading the Christian Science Monitor - there's a particular perspective to that publication that is not necessarily Christian per se, but there's a great deal of coverage of places and events that don't often get covered in the standard American press.
For some of us, the culture would indeed be overwhelming, but as you point out students know what they're getting into, and a private university does have the right to set its own policies.
For some of us, the culture would indeed be overwhelming, but as you point out students know what they're getting into, and a private university does have the right to set its own policies.
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No absolutely not. One could not say that unless one were trying to deflect and provoke.
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