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TTT

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    NCAA Women's Bball Transfer Portal

    Riley Makalusky/Butler to West Virginia…..pretty good player….does this mean IU Ladies have a couple good 6’1” or 6’2” players in negotiations?….in all this nowadays ridiculousness?
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    NCAA Women's Bball Transfer Portal

    Yes, Garzon is a skilled high level player. She should forever be indebted to coach T. Moren and staff for developing her into the player she is today, taking not good but great care of her, and I think she started every game, and allowing her freedom to shoot and play to become the player she is. T. Moren discovered Garzon from information she received when Garzon was playing in Fort Wayne Indiana at a summer AAU or under age or something like that. Who knows what kind of player Garzon would have been if she hadn’t gotten the opportunity from Indiana. It was master class by T. Moren.
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    NCAA Women's Bball Transfer Portal

    3 national championships and runner up this year and rankings and conference championships is getting it done.
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    NCAA Women's Bball Transfer Portal

    MiLaysia Fulwiley/South Carolina now in transfer portal.
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    NCAA Women's Bball Transfer Portal

    1000%. Though far from what one would call close to perfect. All the things mentioned above and myself and others have noted think about the so called college student in major college sports vs the traditional college. Athletes do take classes online like others and during off seasons, and while traveling etc but it is far from what was the traditional college athlete….unconnected…..just business transactions.
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    NCAA Women's Bball Transfer Portal

    There are those programs that elite players go to and are willing to set on the bench for a while and share playing time with teammates and grow in their respective systems. It’s called always having a chance to win conference championships, national championships and highly ranked each year. And now getting NIL money. (Ashlynn Shade, Ayanna Patterson are two recent (within last 4 or 5 years) and Kelly Farris WNBA 11th pick 2010-2013 from Heritage Christian/Indiana examples even before NIL became such a big deal. Indiana worked to recruit these players making top 5 only to have UCONN step in and all the Indiana effort down the drain. These are just a couple examples. South Carolina and UCONN are like kids in a candy store. Not nearly to that extent but there now are other programs that are more cohesive and competitive to get a higher number of really high level players (borderline elite) which NIL helping those teams alot to put together talent in their respective system. It was fun to watch IU Ladies take a step by step process though somewhat slow but always growing to significant…..and then currently becoming insignificant (after making march madness and winning 20 games) because currently there is not enough there. (it also seems some of the verbal philosophy of working hard, hours in the gym after practice, Indiana is not for everyone, looking for that particular player that fits in every public appearance and or post game, and continually talking about it is hard to replace a couple All American players (admitting to lack of recruiting success and having high level players to step up)…..might want to rethink that approach in thinking and especially making it public. (Most coaches want their players to work hard etc but don’t publicly continually make it the focal point….rather it flows from players kind of more naturally). (It’s admirable that IU coaching staff trying to build lesser talent players 3 stars and even below up at the level they are trying to play at has led to disappointment and some disillusionment). UCONN coach when recruiting Ayanna Patterson let her know he had coached many players of her caliber…it was no big deal to him.
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    NCAA Women's Bball Transfer Portal

    Waiting for Williams/Wisky
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    Phoenix Stotjin to Indiana

    T. Moren and Phoenix Stotijin seem like two peas in a pod.
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    NCAA Women's Bball Transfer Portal

    I agree and am expecting a big saying there will be someone eventually. You are staying positive. Good job.
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    NCAA Women's Bball Transfer Portal

    Hire Lilly back. However, there will be someone eventually. IU Ladies don’t have enough players on the roster yet. This would make for a scrappy underdog team. Shay is a check (but shooting %s from the other guards are not promising…though Spreen should know how to shoot the ball and or score). (Stotijin %s not sure I understand how they could be that bad except playing in wrong situation).
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    NCAA Women's Bball Transfer Portal

    So does Nguemen-Socka follow or go elsewhere?
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    NCAA Women's Bball Transfer Portal

    IU Ladies seem to be struggling in the small market area as well.
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    NCAA Women's Bball Transfer Portal

    NIL INFLATION So what I am reading, in reality IU Ladies Basketball program NIL is in limbo. This makes sense because a couple years ago T. Moren talked about fairness, limitations, equitable distribution of NIL among all NCAA programs from universities to universities but she didn’t know what it would look like. She just thought there needed to be some discussion. (it seems IU Ladies may have gotten left in the dust)…after riding several IU Ladies players into what is today’s reality.
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    NCAA Women's Bball Transfer Portal

    That didn’t take long. Dudley to Michigan.
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    NCAA Women's Bball Transfer Portal

    Disparities in talent levels of women college basketball….UCONN shooting horrible 3 point ball and still dominating win vs South Carolina. Several teams can win in so many different ways….and then there are the teams that have hardly any margin for error which probably more represents T. Moren era….mostly team coached well but not much room for margin of error.
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    NCAA Women's Bball Transfer Portal

    Brenda F. though I agree has some parallels in comparison I think it’s really not a good comparison. B. F. has a national championship 3 final fours and dominance ….many 20+ wins seasons Maryland before joining the big ten for many years. A more fair comparison would be somewhere in the middle between Northwestern coach/Joe McKeown and Maryland coach/Brenda Frese. Agree it’s good to squeeze every last drop of juice out of roster it also could be argued that putting roster in that position equals the situation that is playing out now…even before NIL leaving roster to thin when injuries occur and falling short of a final four (good (much better than what IU had) vs elite/great)….now NIL has multiplied issues problems multiple times. sidenote: Frese even coached at Ball State early on.
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    NCAA Women's Bball Transfer Portal

    So…before the NIL fiasco T. Moren was pretty stable to retire from IU. Is it still the same as a player in the range of bottom half of big ten eventually just riding it out for several years (don’t know how long until retirement) but I think she would have been good for at least another decade or does T. Moren enter the transfer portal as well. These thoughts after another 20 year win season among many consecutive 20+ win seasons. Projection forecast is or has the sky fallen that could be questionably be called a team mutiny. (among the transfers from IU (which is true of many transfers from many schools) I do not see hardly any positive love for coaching staff)….like from the successful players that finished their careers at IU.
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    NCAA Women's Bball Transfer Portal

    Maybe, start at some of them. Not sure about every one of them.
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    NCAA Women's Bball Transfer Portal

    Gianna Kneepkens/UTAH visits to UCLA, South Carolina, Texas, Oklahoma.
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    NCAA Women's Bball Transfer Portal

    That didn’t take long..:Ra Shaya Kyle/Florida (Marion HS Indiana) to Miami in Florida. Wonder how coaches and players feel after spending one, two, and three years together playing each other in games, prep, pre game, during game, and the post game lines….. and as undergraduate alumni/post grad alumni. It’s getting like pick up games in various parts of neighborhoods. You may not be on the same team from game to game.
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    NCAA Women's Bball Transfer Portal

    Regarding Zania Nguemen-Socka and pictures on twitter that are at IU with IU coaches etc are from 2023 visits before committing to UCLA. After committing to UCLA Zania Nguemen-Socka said runner ups were IU and Michigan….of course things can change.
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    NCAA Women's Bball Transfer Portal

    So, a year or two ago IU Ladies were heavily involved recruiting Blakes who went to Vandy……and Zania Socka-Nguemen who followed Dudley to UCLA (Dudley mother coached both I think at some point). IU Ladies were in top 5 for Socka-Nguemen and after committing to UCLA she was asked a question where she would have went if not UCLA. Nguemen-Socka stated she wasn’t sure but said probably Indiana or Michigan. (Some of these players have big ideas about how much they are going to impact their team when making transition from high school to being a freshman (or even sophomore) to college). Both, Dudley and Socka-Nguemen are in transfer portal. Not sure about any mutual interest between Nguemen-Socka and Indiana now. sidenote: Have not heard anything about Williams/Wisky, Christen Carter/Butler, Makalusky/Butler, Ra Shaya Kyle/Florida among others nor any updates on IU Ladies.
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    NCAA Women's Bball Transfer Portal

    Cotie McMahon and Ole Miss visit.
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    NCAA Women's Bball Transfer Portal

    I agree with the above assessments. Players are probably carful trying not to burn bridges and eliminate possible problems by harsh statements. Maybe, American Greetings or Hallmark Cards could develop a category of cards for transfer portal players. (maybe a business opportunity). Yes, I thought Sofilkanich was a possibility when she first entered.
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    NCAA Women's Bball Transfer Portal

    I know it’s early and will be what it will be but some of the players in the transfer portal committed elsewhere or not sure do seem like they are emotionally connected to their school they happened to play for the previous season/s.
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