WBB: General All-NCAA Thread - Not Team Cyclones Stuff
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I’ve lived in IC for 25 years but I hate EIU athletics as much as I did the day we moved in. Having prefaced properly, that was a fun game to watch and as much as it pains me, you have to tip the hat to Bluder, Jensen and Clark. The inbounds play they ran at the end of the first half for a wide-open three by Marshall was a thing of beauty!
USC was pure power - go to the rim and get EIU in foul trouble. Iowa had a defensive game plan, stuck to in and weathered the storm, getting just enough stops to pull it out! Reminded me of ISU vs Baylor in the Big XII championship game when Carlton was a senior!
Clark just keeps surprising - we knew she could score back in her Dowling days, but the leadership and well spoken postgame interview were beyond her years. I’ll go to my grave believing ISU had inside track and blew the recruitment, but we had plenty of company in improperly assessing her ability to play within a team!
Finally, Jan Jensen is an incredible coach. USC just kept running out giant McDonald’s All Americans and lumpy Czinano still scores on them! Heck, the O’Grady girl “held her own”.
You have to give credit where credit is due - I don’t like them, but they’re fun to watch and good for the game most of us love!
Lol. The only reason Pollard wouldn’t hire Staley is because she wouldn’t take a pay cut from her $3 Million per year salary.
just because you guys are biased for your hatred of iowa, don’t make yourselves look stupid. She’s one of the best coaches in the game.
Yeah anyone who wouldn't want her is crazy. Those people wouldn't sign up for the success that program has had since she started coaching because one game where they looked overmatched by an amazing player? They were still in the game the whole time.
That’s crazy money for a sport that doesn’t break even at most schools, but she has won a pair of nattys. Bluder makes $1.3M and will get a whopping 15% raise for tournament advancement - probably deserved. Kenny Brooks at VaTech makes $625K base, quite a bargain for what he’s accomplished. Our own Bill Fennelly can earn up to $1.1M with incentives - no comment!!! Add in whatever they’re paying Billy and the family business is lucrative…
Staley really thought she could just roll out the biggest and most athletic team and they’d win her another natty. It worked for 36 games but if she was somewhat competent they would’ve won it. Kudos to the Iowa coaching staff for a great game plan and the players for executing flawlessly.
Someone posted earlier on about the lineup of officials, commenting that it promised for a very rough final four. Very physical. No whistles.
In the 2020 recruiting thread there were some people speculating that CC had chemistry issues with our incoming freshmen. Seeing as one of those freshmen transferred to Iowa it would seem the "chemistry issue" was with the coaches.
(Side note: 4 years later that thread is both sad and hilarious)
Quoting from reddit:
"It's because her coaches are using the fundamentals from when women used to play 6 on 6. You only got 2 dribbles so you had to make them count. They use the techniques they learned when they played and apply it to the post positions now."
Your logic doesn’t work. Clark not feeling chemistry with the TEAM has nothing to do with an INDIVIDUAL transferring to Iowa. And making the giant leap to "the coaches" is well beyond any logic that can be applied.
I’ve done a 180 and probably wouldn’t fare well in that thread - I saw CC with Dowling lose to City High with three future D1 players (including Aubrey) when they were Seniors. CC was selfish and whined non-stop. I thought we had scored a coup with four top 100 recruits, headlined by #12 rated Lexi, and had no need for CC. Of course I don’t get paid to evaluate and nurture girls basketball talent.
I know Ashley and Aubrey weren’t interested in playing with Caitlin coming out of HS - heard it straight from the best player in ISU history on a visit to the family business shortly after they’d been on a Team USA squad together. A great coach would have been able to convince his resident star that having another would benefit both, but that didn’t happen. Now we can only dream of what might have been.
Postscript: Obviously there’s no guarantee CC wouldn’t have selected EIU anyway, but I’m of the opinion we had a great chance to land her if we’d gone in with both guns blazing.
Billy makes $165k
Steyer makes $185k
Schaben makes $163k
Total - $513k
Jan Jensen makes $235k
Abby Stamp makes $135k
Raina Harmon makes $140k
Total - $510k
Bluder's daughter makes $55k per year
Three players shooting 28% or worse from 3 on the season. All three couldn't miss, in the same game.
Rule of thumb says you wait four years to assess an NFL Draft. It seems reasonable to do the same with a college recruiting class. Why do you object? Is CBF not ultimately responsible for identifying talent, determining who to sign, developing skills and maintaining enough talent to sustain success?
Thought I could go without a Clark mention watching wrestlemania, but then they show Kittle in the stands which leads the announcer to bring her up. Ugh.
Kittle at Wrestlemania does not surprise me. Was his hot wife with him?
Not sure. He got involved in the show. Pat Mcfee showed up to challenge the wrestler the Miz and Kittle came out of the stands to help Pat win.
Not surprised, if they can beat SC they can beat imo a lesser talented LSU team. LSU is all about Reese.
