2023 Recruiting

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And adding insult to last night's injury, we get to see all the signing day photos today for programs other than this one...
 
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Darth_Vol said:
And adding insult to last night's injury, we get to see all the signing day photos today for programs other than this one...
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Not the way you want it to happen when you've been here long enough to have equity with players in 2022 and beyond.
 
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Mr.Pivot said:
She just added an extra 6,000 to the attendance total just by staying home. Her, Ashlyn, and Talaysia could be legendary for the state of SC! Hope Joyce see this and wants to be apart of it.
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Dawn is actually setting herself up to go on a multiple title run! Gee whiz! If y’all get JuJu and Edwards, look out!
 
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LadyVol1908 said:
Dawn is actually setting herself up to go on a multiple title run! Gee whiz! If y’all get JuJu and Edwards, look out!
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I think the girl from Canada is in play this year. I also think JuJu is looking West. The Nike deal and SC being with UA seems like a no fit. Stanford maybe? Who knows on Edwards, another one of those that keeps everything very close to the vest, though some rumors surface occasionally that she is looking away. Not sure if they are valid rumors, could you imagine if she goes to SC also though? My Lord the talent that would be on one team for a long while.
 
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Embarrassing day, if we're honest--and for me truly irritating as I see that UNC's Banghart, whom I urged two people in our athletic department to hire when the job came open--has signed 1 five star and 2 four stars among her four signees and seems to have things rolling. We signed....nobody! Thanks, Phil.
 
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turbovol said:
Embarrassing day, if we're honest--and for me truly irritating as I see that UNC's Banghart, whom I urged two people in our athletic department to hire when the job came open--has signed 1 five star and 2 four stars among her four signees and seems to have things rolling. We signed....nobody! Thanks, Phil.
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Banghart is a great one waiting to happen imo. I read her bio recently and how she built her program at Princeton. I for one think highly of her as a WBB coach. She will do very well at UNC.
And yes, she is a really good recruiter. That big time player named Strong from Charlotte might be leaning there for the next class also.
 
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Maybe we should hire a recruiting coordinator with an emphasis on recruiting. One we got is apparently broken.
 
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VolBall09 said:
I maintain Mr. Harper is a bit of a recruiting net negative. Still think he should Mr. Mom his way out of it.

Pay Gail Goestenkors what she’s worth as an associate head coach and get some offense back in Orange.
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Fully agree. This is Tennessee. Not Mo State. We need some of the best on the bench. I think Coach Sam and Coach Joy were great hires.

Would love to see Kellie go just as hard for a Gail, Melanie Balcomb, or known/proven offensive mind in the game.
 
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TheMississippiVol said:
The only place recruiting from the portal is being discussed as an issue comes from a pocket of fans on this forum. In every collegiate sport both women & men the portal has become a prized possession in recruiting.
This is just people complaining for no good reason. You folks have at it.. there’s nothing to validate this argument of any sort of short-term or long term impact on Coach Harper recruiting process.
The main issue I’m hearing is most of you are offended because you don’t have inside information. And you shouldn’t. Negative recruiting against Tennessee is irrelevant if it’s going on. Look at the players that have committed here or stayed under Coach Harper era… 5 players (Franklin, Powell, Key, Horston, and Jackson) were named to preseason (position) top player lists, one soph. (Puckett) and one freshman (Pissott) earned watchlist honors, one of the nation’s top underclassmen transfers is a former HS all-American(Hollingshead), three made all-sec first team (Jackson, Key, and Horston) and Coach Harper is the SEC Preseason Coach of the Yr. Last but not least Marta Suarez is arguably one of the most talented players in the country returning from injury after being an All-SEC selection her freshman year. I heard people raving about Arkansas’s prolific 3pt specialist Ramirez all last season, well you have a prolific scorer/ 3pt specialist returning as a LV in Marta along w/ newcomer Justine. True fans get behind these players and stop glorifying every HS recruit based on recruiting service rankings.
Who in their right mind wastes this kind of energy making one factor outweigh several factors of a winning program?
The LV program is in a great position right now. In a better position than most. That’s why this team is ranked 4th/5th in the nation. There’s no asterisk. They have a great culture. The staff is honoring each and every player that commits to the program and the player development is at an all-time high. Recruiting is recruiting.
A year or two from now the same critics will likely be complaining when Coach Harper passes on a player in the portal for a highly rated HS recruit.
The embarrassment is not HS recruiting it’s the audacity of some calling themselves a fan to constantly promote this propaganda.
Some of you folks won’t ever be satisfied.. even when the LVs win another national championship.
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Multipe Rings.. Cake, let them eat.🙇‍♀️
 
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VolBall09 said:
I maintain Mr. Harper is a bit of a recruiting net negative. Still think he should Mr. Mom his way out of it.

Pay Gail Goestenkors what she’s worth as an associate head coach and get some offense back in Orange.
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Stated that last year that her first big test would be can she move in the direction to better the team and cut loose her husband. Pat had head coaches sitting next to her in Demoss and Holly, right now she has assistant coaches collecting checks it seems or in this case, double dipping. If you're with this brand of Tennessee coaching you have to be able to recruit top tier and other programs have to come after you.
 
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Majors said:
Pat had head coaches sitting next to her in Demoss and Holly, r
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Oh the irony! Once again we skip down fact free lane with impunity. Yep that Holly was a head coach and a half! And Mickie, much as I love her, also never was a very successful HC, and in fact, discovered she didn't even like the role. Both great people and LV icons, but decidedly NOT head coaches.
 
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