THIS is a basketball.
Please let me know if we need to start a little slower.
This also goes for the team in Ruston that calls themselves "men".
THIS is a basketball.
Please let me know if we need to start a little slower.
This also goes for the team in Ruston that calls themselves "men".
Can you go a little slower, coach?
Think it's bad now? Anthony and Stahly are seniors, and our freshman class was ranked last in C-USA. It's only going to get worse. Can't win if you can't recruit DI caliber players.
Stayley has hit a wall this year. We need her to step up her game and get out of her head. Rice and UNT are no joke this year, but unless we can recruit some top players, this is not looking good right now. I think Brooke is an outstanding coach and stand by her, but the recruiting HAS to improve! There was one Rice player that I swear has been there for 10 years. The other one that was giving us so many problems was a. 6'9" post player. How on earth does Rice land someone like that???? We are up and down with our play. That is because we have to rely on pure hustle over pure talent. Anthony is amazing this year. Don't know where she has been the last 3, but she may end up being one of the top players in the country. We need a team to go around her, but too late for that. Tell me when we get a couple of big Centers than can run the court.
I agree. The Techsters need a point guard. We haven't had one since Tasha Crain. Not making excuses, but Cleaver is hurt, Whitney is not 6'0" and we have no guard play. Our recruiting simply must improve. We have to develop depth in the post and on the perimeter. As for Nancy Mulkey, she went to high school with the Ogumike sisters on the Rice roster. They helped to recruit her to Rice.
I think Stahly is being asked to do too much, and teams are electing to shut her down leaving us with only one other legit scoring option. She is a very good role player, a 3-point sharpshooter who would be a nice piece on almost any team in the country in that role. Problem is we have no inside threat to kick it out to her for open threes nor a traditional point guard who can penetrate, collapse a defense, and dish.
Very similar situation with our MBB team and Boykins last season. Talented role players who were forced into bigger roles outside of their skillsets due to holes on their respective rosters; very similar 3-point sharpshooters, except Boykins had the length to be disruptive on defense.
Did we recruit the young lady from North Caddo?
Did we recruit the young lady from Red River?
Did we recruit either of the bigs at Loyola?
2 of the 4 incoming players for next year were nominated for the McDonald’s All American team
Thanks.
Here are the offer lists I found for each of the 4 Lady Techsters signees this year:
Amariah Stanard
- Bethune-Cookman
- Charleston Southern
- Columbia
- CSU-Bakersfield
- Georgia Southern
- Georgia State
- Howard
- Longwood
- Louisiana Tech
- Mercer
- Norfolk State
- North Carolina A&T
- South Alabama
- Stetson
- Toledo
- UAB
- UALR
- UNC-Asheville
- Winthrop
- WKU
Mahoganie Williams
- Louisiana Tech
- Memphis
- Nicholls State
- Southern Miss
Amber Hawkison
- Louisiana Tech
Anna Larr Roberson
- Louisiana Tech
Last edited by Dawg06; 01-16-2019 at 11:10 PM.
That is not exactly an impressive list of schools. Two almost McDonald's All-Americans and not a single "big" school recruited 'em? Find something wrong in that picture.
And surely Hawkison and Roberson had others recruiting them/offering them too?
Of course, as I recall, we've had some pretty good players in football who were lightly recruited, or maybe not recruited at all....such as Tim Rattay, Trent Taylor, Boston Scott....all three made it to the pros.
Recruiting is not an exact science. Good players, hidden gems, slip through the "big school" net sometimes. Brooke landed two at NSU who could have played just about anywhere. Maybe not at UCONN or a super elite like that, but at just about any other "P5" school. So....who really knows?
Besides, it's really about player development. Good coaches can take an "average" player and make something out of them.