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So.....how many want to rethink next year's lofty ranking prediction for the Gamecocks? The good news is the SEC will still be in a down cycle...but eegads, this is not a good optic. :(
 
SECbbfan24 said:
South Carolina has had a very high turnover rate under Dawn. By year two or three, I bet you half that incoming freshman class is gone.
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While that is true, it's generally been people that weren't getting a lot of paying time or stayed in Dawn's doghouse. I'd be lying if I said I was happy about it, but I trust Dawn.
 
South Carolina's Te'a Cooper also intends to transfer

COLUMBIA, S.C. -- South Carolina guard Te'a Cooper intends to leave the program. Team spokeswoman Diana Koval said Wednesday that Cooper's name is in the NCAA's transfer portal. Cooper, the team's leading scorer, becomes the fourth player this week from this season's team to say they want to transfer. Forwards Mikiah Herbert Harrigan and LaDazhia Williams and guard Bianca Jackson had previously announced their intentions to go.

Koval said Gamecocks coach Dawn Staley was holding individual season-ending meetings with the players this week and did not want to comment on Cooper's move. South Carolina has the country's No. 1 incoming freshman class next fall with four of the top 13 players in the nation, according to ESPN's recruiting rankings.

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Could it be that Dawn is cleaning house? Or was it a big family, just not a happy family? Dawn's got a reputation for being tight with her players. All very strange.
 
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Crazyhorse said:
There is nothing normal about 4 players from the same team transferring, any way you slice it.
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You obviously must not be paying much attention to the transfer portal then because it is very much normal to see teams with 3+ players transferring out.
 
JDuro said:
You obviously must not be paying much attention to the transfer portal then because it is very much normal to see teams with 3+ players transferring out.
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How do you have access to the portal?
 
JDuro said:
Good write up here:
GamecockCentral.com - WBB: What's going on?

and Ty will be back to finish it off and set the all time assist record (and more).
Tyasha Harris on Instagram: “Last go around , gotta make it a good one .. (this should answer all questions) ✋✌”
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I agree that the first link is a good writeup overall but I wish the author had backed up this assertion with data:
The attrition rate at South Carolina is no higher than anywhere else, in fact it is pretty low.
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Not saying it’s wrong or even that it’s necessarily bad if the attrition is above average. On the academic side, I hate the recent emphasis on time to graduation and retention stats. I understand why people want to improve those, but fixation on just the number creates unintended incentives IMO to do things like dumb down the curriculum and/or not admit as many students who are high risk/high reward.
 
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Crazyhorse said:
How do you have access to the portal?
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All you have to know is that there are over 400 player on it, which is a number I've seen in a couple places. (A men's coach told me two months ago that there were over 900 on the men's portal!)

So the average is more than one player per team. Clearly having three cannot be unusual.
 
bennyskid said:
All you have to know is that there are over 400 player on it, which is a number I've seen in a couple places. (A men's coach told me two months ago that there were over 900 on the men's portal!)

So the average is more than one player per team. Clearly having three cannot be unusual.
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I believe that the portal is not limited to D-I players. Also has D-II and I believe D-III players on it.
 
Crazyhorse said:
How do you have access to the portal?
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No access to the portal but perusing through Raoul twitter account's WBB blog you see plenty of schools with transfer lists of 3, 4 or 5 players.
 
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Reading through Raoul's tweets, it's hard to guess why some players are transferring...I mean for example Sydney Cooks is leaving Michigan State when she would be the shoe-in starter at post and get a ton of minutes..no one else on the team has much experience there. Talk about leaving a hole....looks like their incoming freshman post will start immediately.
 
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newfrontier said:
Reading through Raoul's tweets, it's hard to guess why some players are transferring...I mean for example Sydney Cooks is leaving Michigan State when she would be the shoe-in starter at post and get a ton of minutes..no one else on the team has much experience there. Talk about leaving a hole....looks like their incoming freshman post will start immediately.
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Agree completely that Cooks would've started next year since Jenna Allen has (finally) graduated. But the entire rest of the roster from the 20+ win season that MSU had was coming back and was expected to be led by Cooks, guards Shay Collie and Nia Clouden and pesky point guard Taryn McCutcheon. This was not a threadbare roster, by any means; rather a team that probably should've taken a step forward.
But, at the end of the post, I'm with you: it's a head-scratcher. :confused:
 
Dillon77 said:
Agree completely that Cooks would've started next year since Jenna Allen has (finally) graduated. But the entire rest of the roster from the 20+ win season that MSU had was coming back and was expected to be led by Cooks, guards Shay Collie and Nia Clouden and pesky point guard Taryn McCutcheon. This was not a threadbare roster, by any means; rather a team that probably should've taken a step forward.
But, at the end of the post, I'm with you: it's a head-scratcher. :confused:
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Agree and I think all 3 guards you mentioned are pesky in their own way, but the other gals at the 3 an 4 positions are not great defenders and some of MSU's opponents seemed to score at will all too often. Cook might be a slight exception.
 
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Hearing a lot of chatter of Te'A Cooper to Baylor, or at least that is her #1 choice right now.
 
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JDuro said:
You obviously must not be paying much attention to the transfer portal then because it is very much normal to see teams with 3+ players transferring out.
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Actually, no it isn’t. Besides N/S Carolina and Georgia Tech, name other schools that have this and to be defined as normal, you need 80+ teams considering there are 340+ in D1 (25% of schools to be considered normal).
 
SECbbfan24 said:
Hearing a lot of chatter of Te'A Cooper to Baylor, or at least that is her #1 choice right now.
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Idk if how believable the source is, the same poster said ONO would get home sick right after she signed with UConn, he has some inside information but has been wrong plenty of times.
 
Cooper has already sat out 2017-2018 due to NCAA transfer rules. Unless she's a graduate transfer, she can't sit out another year and play in 2020-2021 can she? That would mean her college playing time would extend over 6 years. Her first year with Tennessee was the 2015-2016 season.

Cooper Time line -
2015-2016 Freshman year Tennessee
2016-2017 Sophomore year Tennessee - sat out the season due to an injury suffered during the previous summer.
2017-2018* transferred to South Carolina - sat out the entire season due to NCAA transfer rules.
2018-2019 Junior year South Carolina
2019-2020 ??? Graduate transfer that can play right away? :eek:

Does the rule still hold that student athletes have 5 years to complete their 4 years of eligibility? Next season would be year 5. Am I missing something here?

*Former Lady Vol basketball player Te’a Cooper decided to transfer from Tennessee in part because she faced possible disciplinary action regarding a fight she instigated with teammate Jaime Nared, according to multiple sources.
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Scoop said:
Cooper has already sat out 2017-2018 due to NCAA transfer rules. Unless she's a graduate transfer, she can't sit out another year and play in 2020-2021 can she? That would mean her college playing time would extend over 6 years. Her first year with Tennessee was the 2015-2016 season.

Cooper Time line -
2015-2016 Freshman year Tennessee
2016-2017 Sophomore year Tennessee - sat out the season due to an injury suffered during the previous summer.
2017-2018 transferred to South Carolina - sat out the entire season due to NCAA transfer rules.
2018-2019 Junior year South Carolina
2019-2020 ??? Graduate transfer that can play right away? :eek:

Does the rule still hold that student athletes have 5 years to complete their 4 years of eligibility? Next season would be year 5. Am I missing something here?
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2017-18 wasn't a redshirt year if I understand correctly. She's listed as a junior on this current roster so she has just 1 year of eligibility left. Not sure if she's a grad transfer or your normal transfer.

I wouldn't touch her with a 10 foot pole if I'm Kim. Based on everything I've seen from Cooper she seems to have a "me first" attitude that could disrupt chemistry. Better options on the table, including players on her current roster like Ursin and Landrum.
 
Scoop said:
Cooper has already sat out 2017-2018 due to NCAA transfer rules. Unless she's a graduate transfer, she can't sit out another year and play in 2020-2021 can she? That would mean her college playing time would extend over 6 years. Her first year with Tennessee was the 2015-2016 season.

Cooper Time line -
2015-2016 Freshman year Tennessee
2016-2017 Sophomore year Tennessee - sat out the season due to an injury suffered during the previous summer.
2017-2018 transferred to South Carolina - sat out the entire season due to NCAA transfer rules.
2018-2019 Junior year South Carolina
2019-2020 ??? Graduate transfer that can play right away? :eek:

Does the rule still hold that student athletes have 5 years to complete their 4 years of eligibility? Next season would be year 5. Am I missing something here?
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Apparently, she will be a grad transfer according to this story in The State:
"Cooper had the option to renounce her remaining eligibility and enter the WNBA draft, held Wednesday night, but did not do so. Now, she will be a graduate transfer and will be immediately eligible wherever she goes."
This story also takes the reader though Cooper's starts, stops and re-starts.
Gamecocks’ leading scorer Te’a Cooper intends to transfer from South Carolina
 
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