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Post by photos1 on Jan 5, 2024 21:42:18 GMT -5
I agree, obviously with the portal you will never have a perfect idea of what your roster is going to look like multiple years down the line but to be competitive with high level programs in 2025 would be a huge success. I don't know whether we're still recruiting any 2025s, but I do think that you need at least one more pin, probably two, for the 2025 roster, and I think it would probably be better served to have at least one veteran who can help Quest and Shadd-Ceres develop. If they can contribute to 2024 and get in the building that's all for the better, but if we take a grad transfer pin this spring and have to double dip again next year I'm fine with that as well. For the pins in 2025 it seems like we would have Shadd-Ceres, Quest, and Horner (assuming she joins as an RS). We need three more to have a full complement. We could find a 2024 high school recruit at the last second, although I don’t know of any big names that are uncommitted. For 2025, all of the big names have verbally committed except Kaci Demaria. Of course there’s the portal. Maybe Harper Murray will be ready for a change, having been beaten by Wisconsin many times by then. Yeah, maybe by then Murray will be tired of playing in championship matches and want to just sit back and watch the ‘25 championship match from some dank dorm room in Madison… but I doubt it. . . she’ll be in KC playing for another natty for Nebraska… an interesting delusion, though #gbr 🏐 |
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Post by chibadgerfan on Jan 5, 2024 22:28:45 GMT -5
For the pins in 2025 it seems like we would have Shadd-Ceres, Quest, and Horner (assuming she joins as an RS). We need three more to have a full complement. We could find a 2024 high school recruit at the last second, although I don’t know of any big names that are uncommitted. For 2025, all of the big names have verbally committed except Kaci Demaria. Of course there’s the portal. Maybe Harper Murray will be ready for a change, having been beaten by Wisconsin many times by then. Yeah, maybe by then Murray will be tired of playing in championship matches and want to just sit back and watch the ‘25 championship match from some dank dorm room in Madison… but I doubt it. . . she’ll be in KC playing for another natty for Nebraska… an interesting delusion, though #gbr 🏐 😁 Let the 2024 trash talk begin! |
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Post by tablealgebra on Jan 5, 2024 23:50:05 GMT -5
For the pins in 2025 it seems like we would have Shadd-Ceres, Quest, and Horner (assuming she joins as an RS). We need three more to have a full complement. We could find a 2024 high school recruit at the last second, although I don’t know of any big names that are uncommitted. For 2025, all of the big names have verbally committed except Kaci Demaria. Of course there’s the portal. Maybe Harper Murray will be ready for a change, having been beaten by Wisconsin many times by then. Yeah, maybe by then Murray will be tired of playing in championship matches and want to just sit back and watch the ‘25 championship match from some dank dorm room in Madison… but I doubt it. . . she’ll be in KC playing for another natty for Nebraska… an interesting delusion, though #gbr 🏐 Maybe she'll be tired of sitting behind Landfair and Pierce, waiting to play. |
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Post by jwvolley on Jan 5, 2024 23:55:14 GMT -5
Yeah, maybe by then Murray will be tired of playing in championship matches and want to just sit back and watch the ‘25 championship match from some dank dorm room in Madison… but I doubt it. . . she’ll be in KC playing for another natty for Nebraska… an interesting delusion, though #gbr 🏐 Maybe she'll be tired of sitting behind Landfair and Pierce, waiting to play. Lmao. That's not happening. |
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Post by badgerbreath on Jan 6, 2024 0:45:00 GMT -5
You guys have figured out to flush out the thread lurkers. Lol.
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Post by dbro1970 on Jan 6, 2024 3:34:43 GMT -5
? They already signed their NLIs, I don't think there were any worries they weren't going to come. Now for the 2025s, getting a bit worried about Wardlow seeing how desperate Nebraska is suddenly for a MB and Wardlow is right in their backyard. Hopefully she stays loyal to the program who offered her first. As long as there’s a clear path to playing time here, it shouldn’t be hard to point out how Cook’s been directly recruiting over his current roster with incoming transfers. How Cook is approaching the transfer portal is going to bite him in the ass down in the near future. I doubt it. He already recruits over his current roster with the new freshmen he recruits. Ask Kenzi Knuckles when Lexi Rodriguez came in. Or Lexi Sun when Krause and Batenhorst took her job. Or Batenhorst when Murray took hers this past year. |
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Post by rainbowbadger on Jan 6, 2024 6:19:55 GMT -5
As long as there’s a clear path to playing time here, it shouldn’t be hard to point out how Cook’s been directly recruiting over his current roster with incoming transfers. How Cook is approaching the transfer portal is going to bite him in the ass down in the near future. I doubt it. He already recruits over his current roster with the new freshmen he recruits. Ask Kenzi Knuckles when Lexi Rodriguez came in. Or Lexi Sun when Krause and Batenhorst took her job. Or Batenhorst when Murray took hers this past year. Am I in the Nebraska thread? Please, take it somewhere else. |
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Post by savannahbadger on Jan 6, 2024 6:38:47 GMT -5
As long as there’s a clear path to playing time here, it shouldn’t be hard to point out how Cook’s been directly recruiting over his current roster with incoming transfers. How Cook is approaching the transfer portal is going to bite him in the ass down in the near future. TTA coming in over Julia. Ella Wrobel not making it onto the floor. There’s not a reason to believe the portal wouldn’t be used at either school. 100% wrong. Julia was NOT recruited over nor was she ever benched (TTA did get benched for a full game and at least a few set early on). Sheffield was fully committed to keeping her on the floor as much as possible. Wrobel had been injured for most of the past two years, so she couldn’t practice, much less play. While she is a junior in age, her ability to compete this fall was going to be on the same level as the incoming freshman. Her progress as a player was hampered that much by injury, and Kelly was completely upfront with her about where she would be in 2024. |
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Post by maigrey on Jan 6, 2024 8:24:45 GMT -5
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Post by robtearle on Jan 6, 2024 8:33:24 GMT -5
The rule change makes little sense to me. Why would you take your second-best small and put her in a position where only one of the two can be on the court at the same time? Leave her in her DS jersey and both can be on the floor. Or think back to 2019, when UW had Tiffany Clark at libero and Lauren Barnes as the first DS off the bench. I put Barnes in a libero jersey, and only one is on the floor at a time? No, thank you. |
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Post by chibadgerfan on Jan 6, 2024 8:52:17 GMT -5
The rule change makes little sense to me. Why would you take your second-best small and put her in a position where only one of the two can be on the court at the same time? Leave her in her DS jersey and both can be on the floor. Or think back to 2019, when UW had Tiffany Clark at libero and Lauren Barnes as the first DS off the bench. I put Barnes in a libero jersey, and only one is on the floor at a time? No, thank you. Maybe if you have four smalls equally good, the fourth can get some playing time as the second libero, albeit cutting in half the playing time of the first libero. |
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Post by raj on Jan 6, 2024 10:41:27 GMT -5
For the pins in 2025 it seems like we would have Shadd-Ceres, Quest, and Horner (assuming she joins as an RS). We need three more to have a full complement. We could find a 2024 high school recruit at the last second, although I don’t know of any big names that are uncommitted. For 2025, all of the big names have verbally committed except Kaci Demaria. Of course there’s the portal. Maybe Harper Murray will be ready for a change, having been beaten by Wisconsin many times by then. Yeah, maybe by then Murray will be tired of playing in championship matches and want to just sit back and watch the ‘25 championship match from some dank dorm room in Madison… but I doubt it. . . she’ll be in KC playing for another natty for Nebraska… an interesting delusion, though #gbr 🏐 Just remember, the National Championship goes thru Texas |
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Post by fieldhouserock on Jan 6, 2024 10:45:52 GMT -5
While it might have merit for us I feel like changing libs every time someone sets out would be abusing this rule change a little bit. Idk if it would but it should count against your subs if you do decide to change. I’d rather it be mainly for situations like the injury in Tennessee-Texas. |
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Post by swaggyp on Jan 6, 2024 11:07:45 GMT -5
The rule change makes little sense to me. Why would you take your second-best small and put her in a position where only one of the two can be on the court at the same time? Leave her in her DS jersey and both can be on the floor. Or think back to 2019, when UW had Tiffany Clark at libero and Lauren Barnes as the first DS off the bench. I put Barnes in a libero jersey, and only one is on the floor at a time? No, thank you. Maybe if you have four smalls equally good, the fourth can get some playing time as the second libero, albeit cutting in half the playing time of the first libero. I think it's this, yes. Basically you get a developmental libero in matches which aren't as competitive. I don't think tactically it changes the math much. |
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Post by badgersinsix on Jan 6, 2024 11:25:15 GMT -5
The rule change makes little sense to me. Why would you take your second-best small and put her in a position where only one of the two can be on the court at the same time? Leave her in her DS jersey and both can be on the floor. Or think back to 2019, when UW had Tiffany Clark at libero and Lauren Barnes as the first DS off the bench. I put Barnes in a libero jersey, and only one is on the floor at a time? No, thank you. Passing libero in when receiving and defense libero in when serving. DS’s that can do both are a bonus being on the court with either libero. |
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