I really like the in-flux of 3 point shooting and the big gal's shot blocking. It will then be up to the coaching, whether it is CVS or another HC. Go RU!
Don't forget that we will also have Kate Hill (another 3point threat) back after she recovers from a foot injury which sidelined her most of the season.
Excellent points.
I don't know why they transferred. But to discount their talent out of hand is ridiculous. Ask Elene Deledonne why she transferred from UConn. No one said these players are or will be Hall of Famers but please let's not make everything into a negative so quickly.
Dr, if you have read my posts, you know I was not talking about next year just being better than this year and that I was talking about the big picture.
Bac - do you know how many transfers we have had under CVS? I'm not sure who they are, except for Alexis Burke and Shalicia Hurns. I think Burke would have been a decent contributor if she hadn't been injured so much and IMO Hurns definitely contributed. Were you counting JUCOs as transfers? Cynthia Hernandez was our only real outside threat her first year here, so i think she added value. Karlita Washington played a lot of minutes for RU and Barber and Rollins are playing a lot this year. None of them were superstars for RU although I would consider Hurns a very valuable player. She was outstanding her freshman year at Purdue. Unfortunately she was such a disciplinary problem. Who else was there?
I think it has been JUCO's - not that we have had a lot of them - that in general failed to contribute (although Karlita Washington wasn't bad). A big difference is that transfers get to spend a year with the team, vs. Juco's who play right away. As ScarlettB says, Burke didn't really work out due to injuries, and Hurns did contribute before her disciplinary issues caught up to her. How many others have we had? I remember Honeycutt, she was a non-major contributor - but she did contribute - I never heard she was anything other than advertised.
If you spend $750k to have an outdoor wrestling match at Yankee Stadium,will you really get rid of CVS in 2017?
Hurns came here due to disciplinary issues from Purdue. She had talent for sure and may have been the best transfer behind K Washington. I gave CVS credit for giving her a second chance. She was canned (I believe, but not sure also from school) for tying up her roommate/partner and threatening to kill her w a knife. I hope she got real help and has gotten her life together. Can't remember any other significant transfers.
If you are referring to Kristen Somogyi, I believe she pre-dated CVS.
TY. I believe you are right about pre-dating CVS. I was talking about any RU transfer. Didn't think CVS being the coach mattered.
Doesn't sound like RUClassof67 was acting like it mattered who was the HC, but only wanted to clarify when Kristen transferred in.
Talk was about when she transferred , but glad you brought up she played under CVS.
Della Donne did not transfer from UConn. She left basketball, to return to Delaware where she played volleyball and to be close to family because of personal family issues.
I agree I could have been reading in more than what RU was saying. but why did he/she bring it up in his/her response. TY. I did think about it before posting.
She did leave Connecticut, after accepting a scholarship there and taking summer classes there for a short time leaving the Husky WBB program before playing a game to be close to her family especially her old sister, Lizzie who had Cerebral palsy.
It's appropriate if you're looking for the positive things that can tun this program around, but inappropriate to those stressing the negative because it doesn't fit their POV..
Madhat1- Thanks for trying but these guys have worn me down. They've taken a perfectly good message board, which could at one time discuss good and bad and turned it into a one way hatchet job by continuously informing everyone know that only their opinions (or in some cases their brother-in-law or the count they took off their tv screen) are the only accurate measure of the status of any program. I'm out.
Negative..blah blah blah... Bac made a point that put the transfer post in perspective. Period!
This year deserves no excuses , but the talent on bench can give hope for next year's team.
