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Post by hookem1 on Oct 30, 2023 9:22:39 GMT -5
There is some discussion over in the 2025 Commits thread - asking why MN has the 3rd ranked class, but nobody in the top 20 list. Probably due to inconsistent ranking services, but it is an interesting question. Also, Mullens committed to USC (she had visited MN recently). They may not have any top 20 on Prepdig but Kinney is #21 (or was at some point) and Taylor was top 10 overall on Prepvolleyball last year, and moved to #23 this past summer. And I’m assuming Garr is pretty highly regarded too so looks like #3 is at least reasonable until Stanford’s class rolls in, though i’d probably put Nebraska and now USC ahead of Minn.
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Post by forvolley on Oct 31, 2023 18:07:37 GMT -5
I’m wondering if anyone has seen any new (this year) high school season videos of the recruits??
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Post by zero-rotation outside hitter on Oct 31, 2023 19:36:33 GMT -5
I was curious to see who Wisconsin has coming back next year. Knowing that TTA will be gone and no big OH recruits coming in next year (I think?), I couldn't help but picture McKenna Wucherer being very tempted. I think the Badgers have Ella Wrobel as a pretty highly ranked recruit OH (current sophomore), but I suspect Sheffield would grab up Wucherer in a heartbeat.
I don't like the look of her body language with Keegan, and someone else posted in a match thread that if she has high aspirations to play beyond college (duh), she might think MN in the next two years could be a tough place to shine. With both WI's setters moving on and a star to replace them out of Mira Costa (along with everyone else returning), the situation seems ripe for someone like McKenna to sneak in there. I really don't want to lose her, but I can also appreciate the possibility that she thought she'd at least give the new coach a try before immediately jumping ship. But it's been bad and seems to be getting worse.
Plenty of season left. But if MN doesn't make the tournament, it'll be really interesting to see what happens in the transfer portal immediately following the holidays. Big gopher fan here, but whoa the Badgers could be REALLY stacked for several more years in the near future.
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Post by dietcokefan on Oct 31, 2023 19:48:07 GMT -5
I was curious to see who Wisconsin has coming back next year. Knowing that TTA will be gone and no big OH recruits coming in next year (I think?), I couldn't help but picture McKenna Wucherer being very tempted. I think the Badgers have Ella Wrobel as a pretty highly ranked recruit OH (current sophomore), but I suspect Sheffield would grab up Wucherer in a heartbeat. I don't like the look of her body language with Keegan, and someone else posted in a match thread that if she has high aspirations to play beyond college (duh), she might think MN in the next two years could be a tough place to shine. With both WI's setters moving on and a star to replace them out of Mira Costa (along with everyone else returning), the situation seems ripe for someone like McKenna to sneak in there. I really don't want to lose her, but I can also appreciate the possibility that she thought she'd at least give the new coach a try before immediately jumping ship. But it's been bad and seems to be getting worse. Plenty of season left. But if MN doesn't make the tournament, it'll be really interesting to see what happens in the transfer portal immediately following the holidays. Big gopher fan here, but whoa the Badgers could be REALLY stacked for several more years in the near future. Do you think any other coach would play her six rotations? Just curious. They also could move Orzol back to OH 🤷🏼♂️
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Post by zero-rotation outside hitter on Oct 31, 2023 20:15:39 GMT -5
I was curious to see who Wisconsin has coming back next year. Knowing that TTA will be gone and no big OH recruits coming in next year (I think?), I couldn't help but picture McKenna Wucherer being very tempted. I think the Badgers have Ella Wrobel as a pretty highly ranked recruit OH (current sophomore), but I suspect Sheffield would grab up Wucherer in a heartbeat. I don't like the look of her body language with Keegan, and someone else posted in a match thread that if she has high aspirations to play beyond college (duh), she might think MN in the next two years could be a tough place to shine. With both WI's setters moving on and a star to replace them out of Mira Costa (along with everyone else returning), the situation seems ripe for someone like McKenna to sneak in there. I really don't want to lose her, but I can also appreciate the possibility that she thought she'd at least give the new coach a try before immediately jumping ship. But it's been bad and seems to be getting worse. Plenty of season left. But if MN doesn't make the tournament, it'll be really interesting to see what happens in the transfer portal immediately following the holidays. Big gopher fan here, but whoa the Badgers could be REALLY stacked for several more years in the near future. Do you think any other coach would play her six rotations? Just curious. They also could move Orzol back to OH 🤷🏼♂️ Yes, I do. But I suspect that Sheffield would not.
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Post by comet on Oct 31, 2023 21:19:09 GMT -5
Do you think any other coach would play her six rotations? Just curious. They also could move Orzol back to Orzol. Yes, I do. But I suspect that Sheffield would not. I don't want to speculate about any current Gopher transferring to Wisconsin. Period. Exclamation mark. I don't know if I could handle another. Wurcherer is also dating a Gopher baseball player so she might not want to go anywhere. Let's not talk about this anymore before the season is over. Ok? Ok.
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Post by xlumie on Oct 31, 2023 22:05:31 GMT -5
Yes, I do. But I suspect that Sheffield would not. I don't want to speculate about any current Gopher transferring to Wisconsin. Period. Exclamation mark. I don't know if I could handle another. Wurcherer is also dating a Gopher baseball player so she might not want to go anywhere. Let's not talk about this anymore before the season is over. Ok? Ok. 💀💀 Not the PTSD from Booth 💀💀
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Post by genej101 on Oct 31, 2023 22:17:25 GMT -5
I was curious to see who Wisconsin has coming back next year. Knowing that TTA will be gone and no big OH recruits coming in next year (I think?), I couldn't help but picture McKenna Wucherer being very tempted. I think the Badgers have Ella Wrobel as a pretty highly ranked recruit OH (current sophomore), but I suspect Sheffield would grab up Wucherer in a heartbeat. I don't like the look of her body language with Keegan, and someone else posted in a match thread that if she has high aspirations to play beyond college (duh), she might think MN in the next two years could be a tough place to shine. With both WI's setters moving on and a star to replace them out of Mira Costa (along with everyone else returning), the situation seems ripe for someone like McKenna to sneak in there. I really don't want to lose her, but I can also appreciate the possibility that she thought she'd at least give the new coach a try before immediately jumping ship. But it's been bad and seems to be getting worse. Plenty of season left. But if MN doesn't make the tournament, it'll be really interesting to see what happens in the transfer portal immediately following the holidays. Big gopher fan here, but whoa the Badgers could be REALLY stacked for several more years in the near future. Do you think any other coach would play her six rotations? Just curious. They also could move Orzol back to OH 🤷🏼♂️ She played six rotation with every national team she’s been on. Get her serve under control, good coaching, sure she can be. She won’t make the national team as a three rotation front row, not at the highest level.
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Post by Fe Gaslay on Nov 1, 2023 1:02:08 GMT -5
I was curious to see who Wisconsin has coming back next year. Knowing that TTA will be gone and no big OH recruits coming in next year (I think?), I couldn't help but picture McKenna Wucherer being very tempted. I think the Badgers have Ella Wrobel as a pretty highly ranked recruit OH (current sophomore), but I suspect Sheffield would grab up Wucherer in a heartbeat. I don't like the look of her body language with Keegan, and someone else posted in a match thread that if she has high aspirations to play beyond college (duh), she might think MN in the next two years could be a tough place to shine. With both WI's setters moving on and a star to replace them out of Mira Costa (along with everyone else returning), the situation seems ripe for someone like McKenna to sneak in there. I really don't want to lose her, but I can also appreciate the possibility that she thought she'd at least give the new coach a try before immediately jumping ship. But it's been bad and seems to be getting worse. Plenty of season left. But if MN doesn't make the tournament, it'll be really interesting to see what happens in the transfer portal immediately following the holidays. Big gopher fan here, but whoa the Badgers could be REALLY stacked for several more years in the near future. I’m genuinely asking cause i haven’t watched Minnesota in a while (for obvious reasons), but what was her body language like with Cook? I saw her body language on the court against Wisconsin the other night and it was tough but havent paid attention to her interactions with Keegan
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Post by jeepers on Nov 1, 2023 4:51:07 GMT -5
Don't speculate about players transferring until their names are in the portal. Attaching your own observations to the life of a student athlete is tacky.
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Post by skolgophers on Nov 1, 2023 7:34:49 GMT -5
Deciding to enter the portal is a lot more than just performance-based. They all seem pretty happy and have good relationships. I don’t see her transferring.
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Post by zero-rotation outside hitter on Nov 1, 2023 7:48:03 GMT -5
Don't speculate about players transferring until their names are in the portal. Attaching your own observations to the life of a student athlete is tacky. Pull it together. It's speculation, part of what we do when talking about the "future." To the above poster asking about what I've noticed about McKenna's interactions with Keegan, it's nothing fantastically overt, just that she's seemed to shoot back at him a couple of times (I think this was she was still serving and kept missing), limited eye contact, brushing him off sort of thing. It doesn't even seem necessarily rude on McKenna's part, more the way you'd see someone behave if they just don't have the time for you. This, coupled with the fact that her play seems to have digressed, worries me. I go back to the example of Sarah Wilhite. Nothing about her sophomore season made me think I'd even care about whether or not she remained on the squad for the next two years. I was just so unimpressed. To this day, her transformation is one of the most astounding improvements in two years that I've ever seen and perhaps will see. She was good at everything. She didn't play six rotations until her senior year. I realize it's impossible to perfectly compare one season to another as far as rosters (in regard to the bench quality that would or would not make sense to sub out an OH in the back row). But Wucherer is (or can be, I guess, considering her recent play) already a MUCH more terminal hitter than Wilhite was, possibly even in the first half of Sarah's junior season. If McKenna and coach are working on adding some rather new things to her arsenal, there's usually a dip in performance as one tries to first implement these during a match. That's frustrating enough for people who are older than 20 and aren't doing it in front of thousands of people. But it's part of the work that can then skyrocket the quality of performance once those new skills are more naturally employed. I hope that's what we're seeing now from McKenna. Because if she goes the way of Wilhite, and if she buys in to whatever Cook is concocting enough to stay in Minneapolis, Gopher fans are in for a treat the next two years. And yes, likely seeing her on the court as a legit six-rotation player.
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Post by skolgophers on Nov 1, 2023 8:09:27 GMT -5
Don't speculate about players transferring until their names are in the portal. Attaching your own observations to the life of a student athlete is tacky. Pull it together. It's speculation, part of what we do when talking about the "future." To the above poster asking about what I've noticed about McKenna's interactions with Keegan, it's nothing fantastically overt, just that she's seemed to shoot back at him a couple of times (I think this was she was still serving and kept missing), limited eye contact, brushing him off sort of thing. It doesn't even seem necessarily rude on McKenna's part, more the way you'd see someone behave if they just don't have the time for you. This, coupled with the fact that her play seems to have digressed, worries me. I go back to the example of Sarah Wilhite. Nothing about her sophomore season made me think I'd even care about whether or not she remained on the squad for the next two years. I was just so unimpressed. To this day, her transformation is one of the most astounding improvements in two years that I've ever seen and perhaps will see. She was good at everything. She didn't play six rotations until her senior year. I realize it's impossible to perfectly compare one season to another as far as rosters (in regard to the bench quality that would or would not make sense to sub out an OH in the back row). But Wucherer is (or can be, I guess, considering her recent play) already a MUCH more terminal hitter than Wilhite was, possibly even in the first half of Sarah's junior season. If McKenna and coach are working on adding some rather new things to her arsenal, there's usually a dip in performance as one tries to first implement these during a match. That's frustrating enough for people who are older than 20 and aren't doing it in front of thousands of people. But it's part of the work that can then skyrocket the quality of performance once those new skills are more naturally employed. I hope that's what we're seeing now from McKenna. Because if she goes the way of Wilhite, and if she buys in to whatever Cook is concocting enough to stay in Minneapolis, Gopher fans are in for a treat the next two years. And yes, likely seeing her on the court as a legit six-rotation player. Well said! Keegan seems to want to develop players both mentally and physically. She’s working through her struggles and it’s not going to happen over night. Wucherer was the number one recruit for a reason, and once things start clicking (which they will), all of this speculation of her transferring is going to be a moot point. I would also like to note that players transfer who aren’t struggling at all. Just because she isn’t playing well doesn’t automatically mean she is going to transfer.
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Post by BigDigEnergy on Nov 1, 2023 9:43:16 GMT -5
Funny thing is that I could totally see Landfair transfers next year before Wucherer if that ever happens. I have seen Wucherer's interactions with the future gophers and she seems to be that girl who is in this for the future and wants to make this program better.
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Post by comet on Nov 1, 2023 10:08:34 GMT -5
Funny thing is that I could totally see Landfair transfers next year before Wucherer if that ever happens. I have seen Wucherer's interactions with the future gophers and she seems to be that girl who is in this for the future and wants to make this program better. And I don't see Landfair transferring. She seems pretty ingrained at the U and seems pretty loyal.🤷♀️ Let's just get through this season and we will see.
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