Not necessarily. UConn recruited Brittany Rayburn and she rebuffed them and played her BB career at Purdue for SV. If Purdue continues to grow and succeed under Katie losing Indiana homegrown recruits to UConn should happen less and less.That is a rhetorical question with an obvious answer. The entire nation loses recruits from nowhere to UConn if UConn wants them
Not necessarily. UConn recruited Brittany Rayburn and she rebuffed them and played her BB career at Purdue for SV. If Purdue continues to grow and succeed under Katie losing to UConn should happen less and lessThat is a rhetorical question with an obvious answer. The entire nation loses recruits from nowhere to UConn if UConn wants them
As soon as Ashlynn got the UConn offer, everyone knew that’s where she was going. It was her dream school.
You really believe Katie should have out recruited UConn her first year?? Well enough said. That certainly explains your many criticisms🙈🤣🙈🤣🙈.
It's an elite player in her backyard.. Noblesville is 65 minutes away from Purdue's campus. Katie's prominent HS and college history in Indiana is tremendous, she's a household name in Indiana, etc... Those are the recruits that you don't miss out on... I don't care if it's her first year or not. Just my opinion
Sorry, KG was just another good player on a team that didn't achieve anything of note during her 4 years at Purdue. She is not a household name, not even in most homes of HS women's bball players. Also, you only get to Noblesville from WLaf in 65 minutes by jet.... by car its a couple of hours and change.
ROFL, I didn't like SV after year 4 and accurately predicted she would take us to the bottom of the league back then.... It's one of the reasons Des dislikes me, I keep proving him wrong
Those are the ones she has no hope of winning, she's an unknown coach with very little D1 recruiting experience and only one year of coaching experience at D1 where any of the elite players MAY have heard of her. They were in diapers when she played, and no one cares about Marion basketball.
How did Purdue get Katie Gearlds? How did they get Stephanie White? Purdue WBB has gotten several top 10 national recruits over the years. I get that the College WBB landscape has changed and SV set the program back decades, but Katie has to start winning these recruiting battles and not shy away from them. She has to win those battles.
Purdue started getting good when they hired an experienced and very respected head coach in Lynn Dunn. Even then it took her several years to start winning recruiting battles against the elite programs of her era. You start by getting several top 50 players and developing them into All Americans, that is how Geno did it, how Dunn did it, how McGraw did it. Then you get ranked and start pulling upsets on top 10 programs. Then you make a Final Four, THEN you can start going toe to toe with the top programs on elite recruits in your backyard. By the Time Gearlds was recruited we were a top 5 program starting to slide down, going toe to toe with UTenn and winning on more important recruits than Gearlds. And Katie Gearlds and the other MCDs AA she came in with Erin Lawless unfortunately won nothing of note and were part of the decline under Curry and into Versyp. In large part because both Gearlds and Lawless were poor and frankly lazy defenders which is part of the reason UTenn somewhat cooled on recruiting her.
Those are Caitlyn Clark level stats eh? My goodness 23 points in a Q is beyond remarkable! All I can say is Wow
Agree, I really thought Addison Potts would see minutes this year. Seemed to have a certain swagger about her based on what little I could glean from CKG’s comments and some Twitter posts prior to her arrival at Purdue. She and Stoddard were 2 freshmen I hoped to see at least some during this season.
Linn Dunn was a great recruiter and had two solid assistants in Gail Goestinkoers and Tom Colleen. Both became successful Power 5 HC’s.
You and I both soured on her early. I have no problem praising you when you are right and we both called SV as the wrong coach. Even a broken clock is right twice a day.
