Inquiring minds want to know. Hope this is more than rumor.Originally Posted by Dawg06
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Inquiring minds want to know. Hope this is more than rumor.
Not a rumor, Coach Summitt mentioned this morning during an interview in the Nick Brown show
Did he say if they were for this year or 2015 recruits?
No, he did not.
It would be amazing if it was this year, but 2015 is would look to be an AMAZING class with the two transfers being eligible and these two, if landed. This rebuilding make be quicker than any of us thought.
Thanks for the heads-up, Dawg06!
I did a quick search among the top 140 uncommitted 6'5" players from Class of 2015 and got two hits:
Slidell's Kalani Brown and Erin DeGrate of La Vega High School (Waco, TX), who is generally regarded as the 3rd or 4th best post player in her class.
I would warn friends that these girls are too much to hope for this soon (while secretly harboring my own hopes that Tyler & Mickie will set the women's b-ball world on its ear in one fell swoop!). [hypocrite smilie icon]
Then I checked mid-west 2015 players, with whom I expect Tyler would have been cultivating relationships while at Marquette. I found no 6'5"s, but there are four (still growing?) area players listed at 6'4":
...Patricia Albert - Morgan Park HS, Chicago, IL
...Amber Lindfors - Elk Grove HS, IL
...Diamond Jordan - John Glenn HS, Westland, MI
...Megan Gustafson - South Shore HS, Port Wing, WI (Iowa commit)
Okay. That's the limits of my amateur bird-dogging. Can someone with real knowledge weigh in on this list?
Beatrice Mompremier is a 6'4 / 6'5 forward from Florida. She maybe one of the visits. She is followed by coach amber smith in twitter. During an interview a few weeks ago, Coach Summitt mentioned that they were looking at a couple players from Georgia. Victoria Harris is a 6'3-6'5 post player (her size depends on which recruiting site you visit) that might be on the radar. You can also get information from the coaches twitter pages (watch the names that are following them)
Good point on the ACL injuries for women. Hurt mine years ago playing basketball and it does not make for good things down the road. I do believe that now that they KNOW women are more likely to get this injury they have developed a series of exercises to strengthen muscles to protect it (so far as possible). I know back in the old days, the women played some excellent male players all the time...and schooled 'em. Looking forward to seeing how this team develops.
Hope we pick up one or two
Today Holly got 6'1" guard Diamond DeShields (transfer from N.C. - ACC Freshman of the Year). Most are saying she's the best player Tennessee has signed since Candace Parker. She and Te'a Cooper won't play until 2015.
Holly has the horses now. Tennessee is loaded. If by 2019 the Lady Vols are judged to have under-achieved (specifically, if the defense is not holding opponents to under 40%, and the LVs are not top-20 in fewest turnovers)...
Ahhh for the good old days when we got players like that.:bigcry:
Congrats to the LV's! That is a great pick up.Today Holly got 6'1" guard Diamond DeShields (transfer from N.C. - ACC Freshman of the Year). Most are saying she's the best player Tennessee has signed since Candace Parker. She and Te'a Cooper won't play until 2015.
Holly has the horses now. Tennessee is loaded. If by 2019 the Lady Vols are judged to have under-achieved (specifically, if the defense is not holding opponents to under 40%, and the LVs are not top-20 in fewest turnovers)...
For the class of 2022..... http://gma.yahoo.com/blogs/abc-blogs...ting.html?vp=1
It is amazing to see that much coordination of a child that age.
Should we go into the 2014-5 season with 11 players with the current listed roster with the addition of Davenport, I would still be of the opinion that we will still have a very good team but small and possibly in trouble should we have any injuries of our top players!
With Frazier and Wingate as our post players they will not be tall but incredibly atheletic and a formible duo down low!
Shelton, Perry and Jackson have all proven they can play...
Walters is dynamic, and with a little tweeking could prove to be one of the best PG's in the league!
If we could get some quality back up play from Langston, Molton, and Davenport in the post we will be in good shape...
We will be pretty limited on our guards with either Perry or Jackson being our 6th player and Andrews and Richie left on the bench to back any of them all up!
Now if we are in shape, tuff, and have that championship mentality that Coach Summitt says his team will be, then we can still expect great things from this Sr. led group of Techsters this year!
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