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Post by ATP on Nov 3, 2023 7:57:08 GMT -6
Not a great crowd but not a terrible crowd. Tomancova has footwork like a concrete goose.
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Post by municup14 on Nov 3, 2023 8:51:08 GMT -6
4 point win over OCU is not impressive. It appeared that heavy use of freshmen was the objective. Winning these games doesn't matter and winning by 40 isn't about value. The officials took the game out of their hands in the first quarter. You should not try to evaluate practice games. That's what you call practice games are for,to evaluate players and how good your team is .
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Post by E-Villan on Nov 3, 2023 11:20:03 GMT -6
Admittedly, I was a little taken back by the close score, but agree it is practice and it does sound like the refs were going through their own scrimmage as well. Back to Anthony's article, I don't see any mention of why there was such turnover? After the first year, like with Rags and the guys I get, but a lot of these players that left were RSW recruits. I know what happened with Feit and get that one, but where and why did they all take off?
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Post by aceshigh on Nov 3, 2023 11:32:09 GMT -6
I wondered about the turnover too. I know someone who left the program and she said the coaches did not like her. She also said that she had trouble expressing herself and didn’t feel like she fit in with the team and UE as a whole. I guess there’s lots of reasons for leaving.
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Post by ATP on Nov 3, 2023 12:11:11 GMT -6
I wondered about the turnover too. I know someone who left the program and she said the coaches did not like her. She also said that she had trouble expressing herself and didn’t feel like she fit in with the team and UE as a whole. I guess there’s lots of reasons for leaving. The two Aussies went back home and the Spanish girl left as well. Some of them graduated -- Feit, Newman, Griffin, Clark, Hudson. I think a couple of others didn't get much playing time. So I don't see this as a mass exodus from a program but rather transitional. We also know that the program had to take a lot of baby steps and recruiting being an inexact science, you bring in the best players you can get from a team that was 3-27 a couple of years back. The competition for top talent is tougher now and finding the right mix for a program -- I think that's a complicated conversation. Not everyone is going to be happy and not all of them belong in the MVC. I do think RSW is a better recruiter than she is a coach.
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Post by 65pointgame on Nov 3, 2023 13:15:07 GMT -6
I believe we need to give this team a few games to find their rhythm -- and with the loss of Anna and Abby, the team needs to find a leader. At times we had 3 Freshmen on the court last night and hopefully this was not a fluke game for Navaeh. Our other Freshman big, Maggie Hartwell got quite a bit of playing time and may just need the early season to adjust to the college game.
Yiesha Williams, G, impressed me during the intrasquad scrimmage, but I think she had a small boot on her foot last night and did not play.
My thoughts on RSW is that this is her first real high school recruiting class -- the first 2 years were spent finding xfr players trying to cobble together a decent team around Abby and Anna. I am most interested in what happens in years 4-6 of her tenure.
As for in game coaching, I will say the full court man-to-man pressure might be a bit gimmicky, as I would rather see a trap style press. Also would like to see Kynidi and other guards driving to the basket stay in control and square up to the basket for a 5 ft jumper rather than putting up an off balance shot under the rim.
I have not been to many MVC gyms/stadiums (except Belmont and ISU) but my guess is Meeks is not the biggest attraction to recruits. I spoke to the dad of one of our volleyball players and he was a bit surprised upon seeing our "high school" gym.
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Post by ATP on Nov 3, 2023 13:43:35 GMT -6
I have not been to many MVC gyms/stadiums (except Belmont and ISU) but my guess is Meeks is not the biggest attraction to recruits. I spoke to the dad of one of our volleyball players and he was a bit surprised upon seeing our "high school" gym. The Meeks facility is a classic and glaring example of the haves-have nots of NCAA sports. Most schools in the mid-major range need to be playing in smaller fieldhouses. Why rent the Ford Center for 300 fans? Yeah, Iowa and IU and LSU can boast 8,000 for a game with 23,000 students on campus and a locked-in sponsor base. The female Aces can get by economically in Meeks, and most or almost all-middies who don't own their own gym can do the same thing. But... what you can afford -- or should rightfully expect to pay for -- will reflect in your image. A 10,000-seat stadium doesn't make your team that much better. Iowa and IU and LSU are still going to be able to get the best players. The divide for the top programs in the U.S. is abundantly clear. The same teams will win 99.9 pct. of the time, and will do it easily. The trick to recruiting women for UE basketball is to find the ones who are there for the education and not the pro career that isn't gonna happen anyhow. I do wonder if anybody in Evansville has offered these women any NIL money. If not, I would like to ask why.
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Post by acescott on Nov 3, 2023 14:26:22 GMT -6
I believe that Nevaeh Thomas will make a significant impact as a freshman in a similar way as Chuck Bailey for the men. The women lost so much off last year's team, it's going to be a major challenge. I will say, Oakland City will have a very good year at the NAIA level, and they won over 20 games last year. I honestly didn't see much of a talent difference between the two teams. Regarding Meeks 'Fieldhouse' (it's got no bowstring trusses so to me it's a gym) I wish they could build a larger facility maybe twice the capacity in the adjacent area where the tennis courts were. Including bowstring trusses, call it a 'real' fieldhouse where volleyball doesn't have to chase down ricochets off the low ceiling.
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