Brown or Mompremiere

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ivyleague said:
Unless they have behaved in an unprofessional manner, bent the rules, or presented an air of disengagement when interacting with the recruit, the coaching staff cannot be blamed when a recruit chooses another school. I am more than certain that none of the above scenarios even remotely apply to Holly or any of her staff. The fact is, there are a myriad of reasons why a recruit chooses one school over another. Location. Prior relationships with another school's alumni, coaching staff, etc. (a la Brown's family and Mulkey). Academic programs that may be offered at one school and not another (or which may be better at one school than another). Friends who may attend the chosen school. Playing time (or perceived lack thereof). Perhaps the recruit simply clicked better with the players of one team than another. Perhaps the recruit is turned off by spoiled, entitled, negative "fans" who take every chance they can get to bash the program, the coaches, or the players when things don't go "their" way. There is little if anything a coach can do to control the above factors. A coach cannot force a recruit to sign. A coach can only be passionate about his or her program and the desire to have that recruit as part of the team (and I'm positive this coaching staff is very, very passionate about the Lady Vols program). The rest is in the hands (and heart and mind) of the recruit.

The fact is, Holly has done an excellent job recruiting, especially in light of the turmoil surrounding the program over the past few years. To blame her when every single top recruit doesn't choose Tennessee (especially in this age of relative parity among the top 10 to 15 programs) is blatantly asinine.
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Well said. Thank you.
 
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Darth_Vol said:
Sorry, but when a player chooses another school largely because a certain coach was late to the recruiting party (as was the case here) that falls squarely on the coach.
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If you are ignoring to me, why are you responding to something I posted (albeit via a third party)?

Holly and her staff were not "late to the recruiting party" regarding Brown. If you are referring to Mompremier, she hasn't yet chosen another school, so you are jumping the gun. As it turns out, many coaches were late to that party, as Mompremier didn't really break out in the rankings until fairly recently. For UT to come in late and still be included among her top three schools says something very positive about Holly and her staff, not something negative.
 
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November 19, I think. However, a recent tweet reads: "Maybe I should just wait". Might or might not be related to college choice???
 
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ivyleague said:
If you are ignoring to me, why are you responding to something I posted (albeit via a third party)?

Holly and her staff were not "late to the recruiting party" regarding Brown. If you are referring to Mompremier, she hasn't yet chosen another school, so you are jumping the gun. As it turns out, many coaches were late to that party, as Mompremier didn't really break out in the rankings until fairly recently. For UT to come in late and still be included among her top three schools says something very positive about Holly and her staff, not something negative.
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ivy, do I dare say thank you again?:yes:
 
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It stings, but all you can do is move on. Congrats to Baylor. Hopefully we can sign some post in the 2016 class or maybe find a gem in JUCO ranks. Where does this put McCowan?
 
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volfanIND said:
Okay, so right now Baylor has 13 players on their roster.
One Senior.
Official Women's Basketball Roster - Baylor Bears Official Athletic Site - BaylorBears.com

They are adding 5 new freshman with Momp now signing.
2015 High School Girls' Basketball Recruits - Baylor - ESPN

That will give them 17 on the roster. Is that allowed?
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In one word...NO! However, don't be surprised if walkons suddenly appear or players decide they don't want to play anymore. Not all, just two or three to make room.
 
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#166
I'm a little surprised that Baylor got another post player...I guess she doesn't mind competing with a slew of other girls for playing time since she could have gone other places and had a better shot to play early. Mulkey must of had a great pitch to get them all to say yes. But...the LVs will move on. We will get Russell back and still have Graves and Moore. We will be ok...but I'm sure this will cue up the "holly is horrible and is over her head talk" by some of our "fans." Upward and onward I say! Go LVs!!!
 
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We have a max of five scholarships for the Class of 2016. I doubt all are used. We only need a couple of posts, but the Class of 2016 is probably as deep as 2004 (Parker, Hornbuckle, Fowles, Anosike, etc.). There are a lot of options. I just don't know who, or how many, are looking at Tennessee.

I would be surprised if Tennessee doesn't give a serious look at 6'4" Krystaline McClune from KY. Also looking at Cox (unlikely), Holmes (unlikely), and McCoy (probable), but not sure where all stand.
 
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It's also not unusual for their juniors to have enough credits to graduate at the end of their junior year. Their normal starting center graduated last yr (law school this yr) and two of their deep bench players will graduate this yr.

mtsuraider06 said:
In one word...NO! However, don't be surprised if walkons suddenly appear or players decide they don't want to play anymore. Not all, just two or three to make room.
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#170
MTSU, why do you think Lauren Cox is not likely? Does she have a preliminary list out?

The thing about this signing for me is Baylor wasn't even on Mompremier's finalist list a couple months ago and she visited Waco the week after Knoxville. I though when she saw UT after Ohio State that was key for UT.

Last is always an advantage. Kudos to Baylor ... Mulkey's new staff did good.
 
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She has a list, but it's not oublic yet. However, it's common knowledge she is/was very pro-Baylor, and unlikely to leave the state. Whether that changes now is unknown.
 
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#172
I seen an interview from her awhile ago where she stated that she wanted to play in the Olympics but not the WNBA. We definitely need to look at some JUCO players.
 
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Seems odd to me she chose Baylor considering they weren't even mentioned until the very end. Her and Brown must have hit it off or something
 
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#174
It stuns me a little that there's nary a top-notch post in this class that would desire coming to play alongside Cooper and DeShields, especially since these two post targets (for example) chose destinations as distant as Knoxville.
 
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Putbacks said:
It stuns me a little that there's nary a top-notch post in this class that would desire coming to play alongside Cooper and DeShields, especially since these two post targets (for example) chose destinations as distant as Knoxville.
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I am stunned as well. I don't understand that and we have a lot room for playing time.
 
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