Media coverage will improve if the team does! It will be wait and see with Katie Gearlds. Same was true when Dave Shondell took over Volleyball, and the Shondell change has made Purdue a consistent winner in the toughest conference in women's volleyball! I plan to attend and will be patient with Katie!
That's not what I asked.... I asked if anyone attended the WBB open scrimmage on October 16 and had any comments on the scrimmage to give us all some enlightenment on how Katie's new team looks?
That would be a stunner, Purdue has 3-4 girls who were Miss Basketballs I believe. Smith, Layden, Kyle all big time recruits, few others as well. You might be correct about the team but I can guarantee they’re winning a Indiana state title if it were High School.
Yes, in a given season I’m guessing they didn’t have a team with more than 3 all staters though. Smith and Madison are Miss Basketball’s, Kyle was a top 25-30 recruit, a couple of transfers were double digit division 1 scorers. Also, I believe Purdue got a Illinois starter that averaged close to 10 a game last year. If there’s a Indiana High School team that’s better than that then we’re talking one of the greatest ever. There’s a big difference in High School and Big Ten D-1 hoops.
That was a helluve team, my main point was that even this Purdue team at the least wins a girls state title, that’s not really saying much though. We hear these arguements a lot when it comes to Alabama beating the worst NFL team, it won’t happen I don’t believe, every player is a NFL guy, in Bama’s case maybe 15-20 are. As for this Purdue team I’m guessing they win between 12-15 games, they have some talent that they’ll pull a surprise or two.
True about the Miss Basketball rankings stuff, I think ours were both top 50 type players, not entirely sure though. You bring up great points, I guess we’ll see how the team does, like I said 12-15 wins is the range I’m putting them in.
But your theory that coverage on GBI will improve as the WBB Team improves is baseless. Both WVB and WSoccer are currently ranked and have been and GBI continues to ignore them…. So I have no reason to believe the GBI powers that be will change their attitude about what or whom they consider worthy enough to follow. Wish you were right and I was wrong but….
I stand by my prediction of between 12-15 wins, this team will win some ballgames, there’s some talent. We’ll re-examine this at a later time, I hope I’m wrong and they win closer to 20 which is a stretch but one never knows.
It would be really good for the program if you turn out to be right and we can start gaining some momentum- I just think next season might be more realistic for 15+ wins. In CMP's 1st season- after Teague and Landry were both lost for the season- there was still "some talent" on the team. There were players that had some talent- but it was not nearly enough team-wide talent. This 1st season roster for Katie reminds me a lot of that team. Let's just hope that the 2 best players don't go down with major injuries like Teague and Landry did.
You may be right! I was excited when Sharon Versyp became the head coach and I predicted that Larry Bird was too slow to make it in the NBA. I also predicted that Kent Benson would make it to the NBA when he was a tall (6'9") freshman for New Castle and played against Lafayette Jeff.
Yep. And add to ranked sports wrestling, swimming/diving and an excellent golf team. I think the WBB could go to the FF and there would be nary a word from GBI. For economic reasons they have made their decision and they will stick to it.
