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Both, sisters back to Miami.  Funny and cute…great marketing job by them and their inner circle.  Good for them for just enjoying their lives.

It would probably mean I’d making a lot of money.

Give me $6,000,000 I could build a team from the Rec center.

And they would get smoked. In fairness you didn’t say you’d build a winner just build a team. 

On the Ladies side not sure how much NIL schools are about, but some schools and several in big ten are getting some of the best impact players from transfer portal.  It seems fluid and steady (kinda more easy).
IU Ladies game time experience hoopla,  attendance, and facilities have to be arguably one of the best.
Then the integrity of T. Moren, staff, and players to one another = 0 IU players in transfer portal this year….. expect IU Ladies to get a couple players from the transfer portal = 13 player roster. (maybe at most 14)

In program instability it’s a way to buy time; expensive time.

That’s an Indiana problem. As has been pointed out by other posters, most schools aren’t doing this and the ones that are typically aren’t successful.  
 
Of the final four teams only nc state really pieced it all together in one year and they barely made it on a miracle run. Uconn and Purdue added a guy or two a year—which isn’t wildly different from the grad transfer days. I think Bama had 2 or 3 new guys in their rotation.  
 
Between transfers, juco transfers and 1 and done or 2 and dones, a lot of the top programs have been adding 2 or 3 important rotation pieces every year anyways over the last couple decades. So consistency is still pretty important with the other 5 or 6 guys.  
 
Woody decided to go the route of adding 3 new staters and 2 or 3 more off the bench in the portal, and that’s on him. We’ll see how it plays out. 

Women's program has always been quiet on recruiting whether HS or portal.  This is frustrating to us fans for sure.

Vonleh has a nice story behind her.  Not wanting the spotlight but her play puts her in the spotlight.  That’s so IU Ladies Basketball Program.  note:  Noah Vonleh….Tom Crean….T. Moren…..Aaronette Vonleh = IU connection.

Per Fanatical Hoosier WB…. Visit and a lot of communication going on with IU Ladies and Shay Ciezki from Penn State (May be between IU and Clemson as favorites).  IU Ladies and Ciezki following one another plus weekend concert and visit.
Per Fanatical Hoosier WB Lucy Olsen, Maddie Schrerr, and Kiki Iriafen scheduled visits to Iowa this week.  Not completely sure on degree of accuracy.

After noticing the visitations of some top portal players to different schools Indiana Ladies program remains Stealthy.

Not sure anyone's used "3 point shooter", "larger volume" and "Woodson's system" in the same sentence. Ever.

It’s not about talent, it’s about assembling the right pieces to play together. Woody has always focused on getting talent vs the right pieces thus why we outkicked every BigTen team in terms of recruiting stars* and yet didn’t make the tourney.
unpopular as it may be, Woody is doing it again. As good as Rice is, we are no better shooting the ball than we were before. Add Balo and here we go again.
the formula is to have minimally 3 players on the court that can shoot and we are assembling another team full of people that can’t shoot. We’ve added two talented players and neither make us a better shooting team

I don’t have a problem with getting a kid that fills a need via the portal. Let’s do that every year.

My issue is a staff of coaches that don’t/won’t recruit throughout the year then rely on the portal to build a team.

The latter describes the efforts of the current coaching staff. In spades.

Doesn’t appear we have what it takes to target and land the biggest of fish. Moren and staff seem to hit more than not, so, curious to see who it ends up being.


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After noticing the visitations of some top portal players to different schools Indiana Ladies program remains Stealthy.

Latest Lucy Olsen list who is making hardest push for her IU not listed though it could be who made the list….Iowa, Stanford, Tennessee, Maryland, Michigan, LSU, West Virginia 
T. Moren and IU Ladies seem to be in prvivacy mode when it comes to transfer portal.

200% agree.  And what has been created in the Assembly Hall gym with fan/crowd and facility support it seems that there has to be around top ten team level recruiting results should be the norm (development of lower level recruits only goes so far without elite level players blended in).  Assembly Hall experience is one that is like a Rock Stage performance.  (A growing monster has been about 85 to 90 % created….does it die off to that mid big ten range or grows to a 100% T-Rex).
(IU Ladies have made efforts to recruit elite players out of high school).  and IU Ladies are going to have to get a couple from transfer portal this year.
Plus T. Moren works with USA teams on national level.
 

The more I wait to hear news, the more it is striking me that this is a very important portal for the IU women’s program. Bear with me: this is the last year when we will have a solid core of veteran returnees with proven success in CMM, Syd and Yarden. Although we all obviously love CTM and her success in building the program, we really haven’t parlayed our recent success into next level recruiting. I see Mich, Neb, OSU, Iowa all with McD’s AA’s coming in and outside of Iowa none have had the success we have in recent years. We still seem to hunt good program fits in the 50-100 range out of HS, and haven’t really had an impact frosh except for Yarden who was an international get. I think to climb the next tier from sweet sixteen team, to final four team were eventually gonna have to get more athletic impact young players out of HS. My concern is that if we don’t nail the portal this year, we finish a respectable 3-6 in the big ten and win a game or two in the tourney, and then lose Syd and Clhoe and start to slide back to mediocrity. I don’t want to see that happen. I trust CTM like most on here do, but talent is talent. We need to continue to upgrade it. We can’t rely on an underrated Holmes to walk in the door every four years and be generational talent. I hope we can compete in the portal and put together a team that can win another conference title and challenge the UConn’s, South Carolina’s, and LSU’s of the world so we can reload with some top 25 talent after next year. 

Give me Olsen and vanslooten and you have yourself a top 10 team

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Navaeh Caffey….IU Ladies just got commitment from excellent quickness and athleticism…defensive and can get to the rim…can shoot 3 pointer and mid range plus fts….should end up being a very good/excellent team player.  Bunch of upside.

There is a pretty big difference from just 10 years ago until today in college Ladies basketball.  There were a handful of elite programs but overall it was different than today.  Today, T. Moren hire would be a much more long shot.
I agree with you about the many things and individuals who said many negative things about T. Moren hire as evidenced by the old no longer discontinued IU blog that I posted on and of course highly criticized for stating it was one of the best hires at IU plus the Purdue connections.  Reasons I supported T. Moren hire:  1. Even then T. Moren was pretty well respected for much of her work for the level she worked in.  2.  Maybe biased but Lynn Dunn spoke highly of her.  3.  Indiana State coach at the time/ Greg Lansing stated in a positive way “Indiana has no idea of what they just hired as their women basketball coach.” 4.  T. Moren understood the whole Indiana basketball paradigm that existed.  5.  IU Ladies program was at a low point.  (and large numbers of elite recruits did not flock to Indiana and really still don’t though getting much much much better….working hard to get them).  
As evidenced (not just at IU) carries varying degrees of risk and so do recruits/players).
sidenote:  13 years at Tennessee before Pat Summitt won first National Championship.

UCONN loses to Iowa. Next morning one of the most highly rated in class of 2024 commits to UCONN…similar results in past for SC and a few others.
 IU Ladies work hard for all it gets especially since recent success and the atmosphere including the fans/crowds at games and a well respected coach and staff.  To hold serve or more IU Ladies are going to have to get 2 of these all star players from transfer portal that fits.
 

Point wise T. Moren and the Indiana Ladies came the closest to beating South Carolina at minus -4 in March Madness and only Tennessee all year came closest at -1.

Is there a Transfer Portal All Star Team that would make up number 1 ranked team for 2024-2025? (Preseason)