2023 Recruiting

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Volfan2012 said:
Hopefully she can figure it out and not have to be recruited all the way to April. Maybe her third and fourth visits will resolve what issues she now has with any individual school.
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There have already been reports that she may not sign until April. Heard that in some podcast the other day when they were talking both about her and the class of 24 Blanca Thomas
 
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Dak1219 said:
There have already been reports that she may not sign until April. Heard that in some podcast the other day when they were talking both about her and the class of 24 Blanca Thomas
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If that is what she wants to do great for her and at least we'll have a chance to get her to Tennessee some more.
 
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Volfan2012 said:
If that is what she wants to do great for her and at least we'll have a chance to get her to Tennessee some more.
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This is the reason i stated earlier in the thread that people should not come here speaking factually as if they have insight stating " I'm pretty sure , or im confident or i doubt these recruits will wait til april as if they have inside info " lol nobody knows the mind of an 18 year old from Gen Z LOL . So unless i see proof of a personal relationship with a certain player i take everything with a grain of salt. I just dont like when folks get our true fans hopes up based off opinionated knowledge .
 
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xtpsrh08123 said:
This is the reason i stated earlier in the thread that people should not come here speaking factually as if they have insight stating " I'm pretty sure , or im confident or i doubt these recruits will wait til april as if they have inside info " lol nobody knows the mind of an 18 year old from Gen Z LOL . So unless i see proof of a personal relationship with a certain player i take everything with a grain of salt. I just dont like when folks get our true fans hopes up based off opinionated knowledge .
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People know this is just a conversation. You don't have to protect them. There are very few true insiders and this board would be a ghost town if we didn't share opinions and speculation.
 
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37620VOL said:
People know this is just a conversation. You don't have to protect them. There are very few true insiders and this board would be a ghost town if we didn't share opinions and speculation.
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I agree with this POV but that should be limited to certain topics in a bigger retrospective . Voicing opinionated facts about recruits you don't have any affiliation with is just not needed. Somewhere this needs to be addressed if were going to have a positive future with these young recruits. They should be able to trust their "Future fans" won't go spilling out misinformation about them without their consent or without actually knowing the recruit at all .
 
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Opinions and speculation are not a problem if honestly and accurately labeled as opinion and speculation. What is problematical are statements made as if they were factual, but never accompanied by verifiable sources.

We have all read posts that start off, “It's a fact that…” or “I know for a fact…”
Funny how the authors forget to share just how it is that they were convinced, and still expect the rest of us to just obediently go along with the assertions.

Let's take the common one: Recruits, we are told, read this board. Well, it's possible, and also possible that they don’t. But let us assume that they do, just because we are gullible kindhearted and trusting. Next, let us assume that some highly sought recruits, for whatever reasons, take their sweet time deciding on a momentous decision: where to go to college and play basketball, and maybe rake in a bag full of NIL loot. Finally, remembering that we are persuaded that ‘recruits read this forum’, let's call them names, like “confused”, if they (1) don't decide to come to UT, and more importantly, (2) don't decide when we would like them to decide.

Let us hope to holy hell and back that a certain recruit does NOT read this board.
 
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xtpsrh08123 said:
I agree with this POV but that should be limited to certain topics in a bigger retrospective . Voicing opinionated facts about recruits you don't have any affiliation with is just not needed. Somewhere this needs to be addressed if were going to have a positive future with these young recruits. They should be able to trust their "Future fans" won't go spilling out misinformation about them without their consent or without actually knowing the recruit at all .
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If you come to this board specifically seeking insider info, you will definitely be disappointed. There are about two posters who seem connected behind the scenes, and they don't post here often. We speculate because that's all we have to go on as regular, non-insider fans of the program. Now when that speculation veers into gossip and negative implications on the program or potential recruits, that's when I start to have a problem.
 
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xtpsrh08123 said:
This is the reason i stated earlier in the thread that people should not come here speaking factually as if they have insight stating " I'm pretty sure , or im confident or i doubt these recruits will wait til april as if they have inside info " lol nobody knows the mind of an 18 year old from Gen Z LOL . So unless i see proof of a personal relationship with a certain player i take everything with a grain of salt. I just dont like when folks get our true fans hopes up based off opinionated knowledge .
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This board is about opinions and speculation as much or more than it is about fact. It is not a message board of experts it is regular fans stating opinions. My opinion is she will not wait until April to sign based on the fact that recruiting get annoying and you have to be a different person to like it enough to go another five months. It appears she has it narrowed to three teams expect she can come up with a decision in four weeks that is plenty of time.
 
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1reVOLver said:
Opinions and speculation are not a problem if honestly and accurately labeled as opinion and speculation. What is problematical are statements made as if they were factual, but never accompanied by verifiable sources.

We have all read posts that start off, “It's a fact that…” or “I know for a fact…”
Funny how the authors forget to share just how it is that they were convinced, and still expect the rest of us to just obediently go along with the assertions.

Let's take the common one: Recruits, we are told, read this board. Well, it's possible, and also possible that they don’t. But let us assume that they do, just because we are gullible kindhearted and trusting. Next, let us assume that some highly sought recruits, for whatever reasons, take their sweet time deciding on a momentous decision: where to go to college and play basketball, and maybe rake in a bag full of NIL loot. Finally, remembering that we are persuaded that ‘recruits read this forum’, let's call them names, like “confused”, if they (1) don't decide to come to UT, and more importantly, (2) don't decide when we would like them to decide.

Let us hope to holy hell and back that a certain recruit does NOT read this board.
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I could not have said this any better thank you !
 
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Volfan2012 said:
This board is about opinions and speculation as much or more than it is about fact. It is not a message board of experts it is regular fans stating opinions. My opinion is she will not wait until April to sign based on the fact that recruiting get annoying and you have to be a different person to like it enough to go another five months. It appears she has it narrowed to three teams expect she can come up with a decision in four weeks that is plenty of time.
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Exactly so if you are not a personal affiliate or someone in her camp why assume she's not a "Different" person is all im saying. You are not the sole person that makes comments like this but , it's to the point where when we lose a recruit we play blame game on this board and its childish. We should just focus on our current team and have faith Harper and coach sam can do the job they are paid the big bucks to do since we don't get a dime lol.
 
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1reVOLver said:
Opinions and speculation are not a problem if honestly and accurately labeled as opinion and speculation. What is problematical are statements made as if they were factual, but never accompanied by verifiable sources.

We have all read posts that start off, “It's a fact that…” or “I know for a fact…”
Funny how the authors forget to share just how it is that they were convinced, and still expect the rest of us to just obediently go along with the assertions.

Let's take the common one: Recruits, we are told, read this board. Well, it's possible, and also possible that they don’t. But let us assume that they do, just because we are gullible kindhearted and trusting. Next, let us assume that some highly sought recruits, for whatever reasons, take their sweet time deciding on a momentous decision: where to go to college and play basketball, and maybe rake in a bag full of NIL loot. Finally, remembering that we are persuaded that ‘recruits read this forum’, let's call them names, like “confused”, if they (1) don't decide to come to UT, and more importantly, (2) don't decide when we would like them to decide.

Let us hope to holy hell and back that a certain recruit does NOT read this board.
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Hello,,,this is 2022...they read it. player's / recruit's families read it. players read it. Coaches definitely either read it or assign it (If not they are in LaLa land).

You read it...Not always for fun or "just something to do for a moment" ,,, but to see what's up or potentially up....
You keep coming back ;o)

Oh yeah,,,it is read.!
 
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turbovol said:
Banghart did not inherit a program with 8 national titles--duh.
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So she didn't have to shoulder a huge responsibility in resurrecting what used to be a true power house program.

We got it 👍🏽 and Kellies record is still officially better with what has been better SOS typically.

Last year UNC ended 15th we were 8th. I can't imagine what the difference is going to be with this year's SOS.

If you look up Net Rankings UNC was ahead of UT because that formula favored wins heavily and the amount of wins and ended up taking less account into who the opponent was.

All in all Kellie has done a great job rebuilding the culture but it is time for her to take the next step and she has a team that if they buy in can do just that.
 
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VA_VOLFAN said:
So she didn't have to shoulder a huge responsibility in resurrecting what used to be a true power house program.

We got it 👍🏽 and Kellies record is still officially better with what has been better SOS

Last year UNC ended 15th we were 8th. I can't imagine what the difference is going to be with this year's SOS.
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agree...it is a much easier situation to build than to rebuild,,,in nearly every walk of life

But success for Banghart is not guaranteed either...case in point, Vanderbilt,,Stephanie White and soon Shea Ralph
 
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Coach Jumper said:
agree...it is a much easier situation to build than to rebuild,,,in nearly every walk of life

But success for Banghart is not guaranteed either...case in point, Vanderbilt,,Stephanie White and soon Shea Ralph
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Nonsense. In my view, it's much easier to rebuild a program that has a terrific tradiion and almost legendary foundation than it is to build something from scratch. It should be easier to recruit to UT than UNC--fact. In any case, I want Harper to succeed. I don't like the parochial mist that envelopes the UT women's program--I would have preferred to see Fulmer do a proper search--but I most certainly want Harper to succeed.
 
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turbovol said:
Nonsense. In my view, it's much easier to rebuild a program that has a terrific tradiion and almost legendary foundation than it is to build something from scratch. It should be easier to recruit to UT than UNC--fact. In any case, I want Harper to succeed. I don't like the parochial mist that envelopes the UT women's program--I would have preferred to see Fulmer do a proper search--but I most certainly want Harper to succeed.
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tell that to Holly
and check out the recruiting rankings
 
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