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Message: [QUOTE="Dillon77, post: 2777926, member: 6620"] Interesting Thread...I've been a bit crazed this week so didn't have time to sit down and go through many of the P5 conferences, but I do now have a free moment to offer an opinion on Wisconsin (this college for now, maybe more later). Being an Irish fan, I've followed Jonathan Tsipis, who has come out of the Irish coaching tree. He did a fine job of getting George Washington up to speed while he was there with some good recruiting and the benefit of landing transfer Jonquel Jones (Tsip was very much aided and abetted there by current Miami of Ohio Head Coach Megan Duffy). The main issue he ran into after arriving at Madison is that Wisconsin's name among in-state high schools was lower than flat. From everything I've read, he's killed himself working in-state to make himself known to HS and AAU coaches alike. He's made progress and it has been noticed by said coaches. To further help with this, he recently hired Kayla Tetschlag, a former Wisconsin-Green Bay player, to be his co-recruiting asst. coach. No one thought this was going to be easy, but the results have not been pretty so far. However, they've got 5 new players coming in this fall, including forward Imani Lewis from New Jersey and forward Carmen Backes from Minnesota. [URL='http://www.espn.com/high-school/girls-basketball/recruiting/school/_/id/275/class/2018']2018 High School Girls' Basketball Recruits - Wisconsin - ESPN[/URL] For 2019, the Badgersr received a commitment from Julie Pospislova, a 6-foot-1 wing player from Prague, Czech Republic, who spent the 2016-17 school year at Downers Grove (Illinois) North High School. Pospislova is the third commitment for the 2019 class, joining 5-11 wing Tara Stauffacher of Beaver Dam (Wisc.) and 6-3 post Sara Stapleton of Blaine, Minnesota (Centennial High). Stauffacher is the first Wisconsin recruit of Tsipis' tenure, so hopefully he and Tenschlag can walk through that now-0pened in-state door. Along those lines, I just read about this transfer from Green Bay to Wisconsin, so maybe that Tenschlag hire is paying dividends. [MEDIA=twitter]1016772913146552321[/MEDIA] Now we'll see how these 2018 and 19 'recruits and transfer(s) can run with it. Looking at one other conference, I fully expect Kenny Brooks to move Va. Tech continually upwards, with a good initial influx of transfers and now some solid recruiting classes. We'll see how Ms. Thompson does at UVA. [/QUOTE]

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