Didn’t they were referring to a source. Rather their opinion based on what they observed.
Audi Crooks to Transfer
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These guys both have a lot of insight onto the teams, but they also can't spill their beans or they would lose access. And it was interesting to hear the numbers that Bloom was saying Williams crooks and brown will get. He said Williams will ask close to a half million, Brown 6 to 800 and crooks close to a mill which is our whole budget. A lot here saying Williams won't get anything but I disagree. I think she's a top point guard. In the right system she'll do really well. She's a Lipsey, not a pure shooter, but a total hustler, good passer and a traditional point guard. She was pretty much the only person I enjoyed watching on the team this year save crooks.
When people say Williams won’t get much, they are talking Alisha
Gee, my guess is Clark had teammates more offensively adept than Audi’s? You know, better than the 43-42-40% field goal percentages that Brown, Williams, Hare shot this year?
She also had teammates that were allowed to have layups and short shots. Audi took the lion shares of those and if you paid attention to when they did drive, Audi didnt move so it plugged the lane up quite a bit. Clark drove and dished off a lot of I believe they had a post at like 75% or so one year. Was Audi up in that area?
Of course players dont want to play with someone that is “Me Me Me” and then shows no effort on defense or rebounding. Blame the coaches or the player for letting this happen.
Interesting conversation! I have a retired friend who grew up in Minneapolis but has spent the majority of his adult life in the western suburbs of Chicago. He owns a vacation home in Wisconsin. In short, my buddy is a B1G guy who follows volleyball & WBB closely.
My friend is a knowledgeable sports fan, specifically women's, yet he doesn't watch much Big XII. He knows who Audi Crooks is, but he really hasn't seen her play much. He started calling me when he saw articles indicating Audi would be a good signing for the Lady Gophers. Now he's asking me why she doesn't have more rebounds and assists!?!
In short, being culturally relevant and people actually having watched her play might be two entirely different things. I know the names of many star players in other conferences because they briefly appeared on MRed's ISU WBB Recruiting lists, but I've not watched much Olivia Olsen at Michigan or Toby Fornier at Duke.
IMO just a bad mix of playing styles between the big 3. They’re all very good bball players but just never really figured out how to compliment each other on the floor. Easy to see why they didn’t enjoy playing together.
People are grossly overestimating what the ladies are getting paid.
The grass is always greener where the dogs are shitting. - Chris Cornell
Ummm, Brock Purdy is a household name as a starting QB in the NFL for a historic franchise. I'd probably bet the house that more people in the US know his name than Audi's.
If you listen to Blum, he says WHILE at Iowa State. Purdy wasn't nationally known nor nationally relevant WHILE at Iowa State.
I’m a past donor to We Will and Cyclone Club. ISU Grad. Two kids are ISU Grads. Season ticket holder. No reach out from the Foundation at all. Odd…
I guess I'm not in agreement with all the talk of people not enjoying playing with Audi. I think it's really important to separate personality from playing style. Audi can have a great personality (and I think she does) but, it's just grossly unrealistic for us to expect our other players to be happy playing a style where 1 player gets the ball 95% of the time.
Bill has long since played a style centered around 1 star player (Crooks, Jones, etc) This is a coaching and a Bill problem. The playing style causes the rest of the team to be unhappy and rightfully so!!
Players want to ball and no one but Audi was allowed to do that. I can't blame them for leaving.
Bill has long since played a style centered around 1 star player (Crooks, Jones, etc) This is a coaching and a Bill problem. The playing style causes the rest of the team to be unhappy and rightfully so!!
Players want to ball and no one but Audi was allowed to do that. I can't blame them for leaving.
Basically the same for me too- past We Will Donor, dropped back my donation to the Cyclone Club, grad and season ticket holder. Minus a mass text for Forever True day, I’ve heard nothing- I don’t even hear anything from the department I graduated from or CALS. At this point I’m not so sure if it’s odd or just the foundation/AD don’t want to try.
Couldn’t agree more. It’s also not isolated to last year, although it was the zenith of “there is one good player on this middle school team” offense.
It fair to say it wasn’t an exciting offense, but it would have been a bad idea to do anything else. We were the top team in the Big 12 in scoring and 12th in the nation in PPG. Hard to argue we should have done anything else.
Defense was the reason we underperformed.
Defense was the reason we underperformed.
I just don't understand why the coaches wouldn't take Audi out of the game when she was just standing around on defense and not going after rebounds. I don't care how good of an offensive player you are what kind of coaching staff just allows that to occur.
