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Post by vbjustice on Jun 22, 2023 9:43:05 GMT -5
I admit my brain went straight there, but we already have Horner. It appears both Mullen and Spears are taking time to consider their options. Smart girls. yes and this is the luxury of being able to go anywhere you want to go because you’re that much in demand. |
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Post by wonkaman on Jun 22, 2023 9:45:24 GMT -5
Certainly in favor of allowing contact early. Just make it clear that no commitment to a college is binding (allowed) until X date of a girl's junior year in high school. Some girls already have a college chosen when they are 12. When they get of age they go to these college camps and continue to attend until they are either given an offer or realize no offer will be made. Almost reminds me of the club environment with their "clinics" where more evaluating is being done than actual teaching skills.
Some college coaches are so popular when they appear at Nationals or any other "big" tournament that girls will walk up to them and ask for selfies. Contacts are made and coaches are trying their best to make a good impression with these "informal" contacts. Life goes on. Impressions have been created.
I still have hope that those college coaches who go into whatever recruiting process is in place who have the best intentions of the girls at heart will win out in the end. Perhaps not all the time. But most of the time. Those coaches who are in it for themselves will not see as much success.
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Post by digs on Jun 22, 2023 9:47:36 GMT -5
It appears both Mullen and Spears are taking time to consider their options. Smart girls. yes and this is the luxury of being able to go anywhere you want to go because you’re that much in demand. THIS!! 👆🏻 |
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Post by rainbowbadger on Jun 22, 2023 10:11:13 GMT -5
It appears both Mullen and Spears are taking time to consider their options. Smart girls. yes and this is the luxury of being able to go anywhere you want to go because you’re that much in demand. I wonder how many dominos are dependent on their decisions. |
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Post by westie13 on Jun 22, 2023 10:58:37 GMT -5
yes and this is the luxury of being able to go anywhere you want to go because you’re that much in demand. THIS!! 👆🏻 Plenty of the cream of the crop still uncommitted. Good on these kids for taking their time. Hoping it’s a new trend. |
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Post by AmeriCanVBfan on Jun 22, 2023 11:31:33 GMT -5
The process will always favor the "cream of the crop" to a certain degree.
It's the girls on the tier of talent below the cream that are in a tougher situation.
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Post by knapplc on Jun 22, 2023 11:35:24 GMT -5
Creighton picks up a commit from Ashlyn Paymal. 6'3" RH/OH from Burke (Omaha) and Nebraska Elite.
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Post by bluepenquin on Jun 22, 2023 13:13:22 GMT -5
Plenty of the cream of the crop still uncommitted. Good on these kids for taking their time. Hoping it’s a new trend. Sure seems like there are a LOT of impact players still on the board - and as usual, many under the radar that will become impact players. |
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Post by Kingsley on Jun 22, 2023 13:53:06 GMT -5
Paymal will be transferring to Omaha Westside, where 2023 Creighton signee Destiny Ndam-Simpson just finished her prep career.
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Post by OHVBKING on Jun 22, 2023 13:57:16 GMT -5
Plenty of the cream of the crop still uncommitted. Good on these kids for taking their time. Hoping it’s a new trend. Sure seems like there are a LOT of impact players still on the board - and as usual, many under the radar that will become impact players. There are over 1000+ 16U volleyball Club teams. There is so much talent out there that doesn't get talked about for a lot of different reasons. Then throw in the transfer portal. A lot of these so called "impact players" are going to transfer if they don't start as freshmen. That is the world we live in today. This is why teams like San Diego can make a run to the Final Four and why a program like Kentucky can win a national title. The days of the so called Blue Bloods dominating the sport of women's volleyball are over. Sure Wisconsin and Nebraska will always be in the hunt, but it is going to get a lot harder than it was in the past. And honestly Parity is the best thing for the sport. |
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Post by Friday on Jun 22, 2023 14:03:47 GMT -5
Need the top level players to come off the board so the dominoes can fall and get to some of these next level players.
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Post by vbruh on Jun 22, 2023 14:19:00 GMT -5
Maybe most of them are waiting for August so they can actually step on a few campuses, have face to face conversations with staff and players, and decide which school they want to be the largest part of their formative years between 2025-2029.
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Post by badgerbreath on Jun 22, 2023 14:40:54 GMT -5
How does the domino thing work in this instance. Are programs holding back on offers to other prospects until they know the answers from the tippy top ones? Do the coaches tell those held back prospects that they might get an offer in the unlikely chance that their offer to the tippy toppers don't pan out? Do programs make contingent offers - like "you get an offer if so and so says no"? (Imagine that wouldn't go over that well!) Do recruits who don't get offers to their target school wait around hoping for an offer? Why aren't other programs swopping in and making offers to those prospects in that case?
If coaches are making more offers than they can support with scholarships, it might make sense for a non-tippy-top recruit to accept early to reserve a scholarship space (assuming the program stands by it's scholarship promise - I know, a big assumption). The only possible issue getting in the way of saying yes would be playing time if a tippy top recruit also says yes afterward, but how many of the top programs have space for more than one OH slot left? Again, presuming the school holds to its promises, that roster space constraint would tend to argue even stronger for earlier commitments.
Trying to understand the decision landscape that a recruit besides a Mullen or a Spears faces. It could be we're not looking at a domino effect waiting to go off so much as a lot of students taking their time, maybe waiting for visits (of course that comes with risks too).
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Post by USC✌🏼 on Jun 22, 2023 14:47:36 GMT -5
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Post by knapplc on Jun 22, 2023 15:11:40 GMT -5
Getting that Big Ten education. Nice. |
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