Purdue Volleyball

[PurdueVBFan]

I don’t have the full details or all of the information to have a full discussion about the topic, but there are strong indicators that Eva Hudson and Chloe Chicoine will be entering the transfer portal very soon.

Gutting and devastating news for us Purdue Volleyball fans and I’m curious how Shondell responds. I’ve been a fan of this program for 15+ years and I can’t remember a darker time in Purdue Volleyball history.

 

[JeffBoiler]

I don’t have the full details or all of the information to have a full discussion about the topic, but there are strong indicators that Eva Hudson and Chloe Chicoine will be entering the transfer portal very soon.

Gutting and devastating news for us Purdue Volleyball fans and I’m curious how Shondell responds. I’ve been a fan of this program for 15+ years and I can’t remember a darker time in Purdue Volleyball history.

Yeah, just saw this same news on the Gold&Black site. This is awful if true. Also reporting that Lizzie Carr & Lourdes Myers are going into the portal. WTH is going on?

I’m like stupefied here. This is borderline ruining my day. It’s just sports, but man this team, and these players are special. What a bummer. Holding out hope it is a massive rumor/joke….

H

 

[PUQBMan.]

This news is almost nauseating. This team was poised to make some serious noise next year with Chicoine and Hudson coming back. There has to be something else going on here.

 

[mdclaxton]

This news is almost nauseating. This team was poised to make some serious noise next year with Chicoine and Hudson coming back. There has to be something else going on here.

There i$ $omething el$e going on here.

 

[GemstateBoiler]

We are really good, but I wonder if not making it over the hump to the top 5-6 teams is a thorn to them. We didn't do well against the best teams this year. I also heard our coach on TV lay into the players for not being ready to play against Louisville in such a big match. He did take some blame also, but they played really bad in that match, almost non-existent.

 

[SunnyFL24]

This will totally devastate our program....love watching our girls play ..we will fall to bottom third in conf over night. Maybe they all feel they've peeked here..could never get over the hump with the top 3 in our conf....or with money flying around..probably being poached by other big programs...either way shocking and disheartening!

 

[jdbrees922]

Is there any other reason beside money . Obviously we are behind with the NIL and even affecting our volleyball program.

 

[Chi-Boiler]

Wow. Quite depressing.

 

[purduedavie]

This makes no sense, it has to be about money, Purdue obviously doesn’t have the money others do, unbelievable.

 

[SunnyFL24]

Someone needs to step in with their check book to atleast fix this volleyball mess for next yr...worry about fixing long term later...this could set us back several years

 

[SunnyFL24]

Someone needs to step in with their check book to atleast fix this volleyball mess for next yr...worry about fixing long term later...this could set us back several years...Sux we are way behind the curve ...haven't heard any names we are getting in the Portal to fix our football mess either...thought Kmart went out of business yrs ago!

 

[ffangus]

Holy cow. While mainly a ladies basketball fan (which you need to be tough to watch them), I watched almost every volleyball game that was televised. I am shocked those gals are going into the portal. I really enjoyed watching them play. Having been a H.S. basketball girls coach, when something like this happens, something has had to happen. In this day and age, it is either money, something within the locker room (team), or coaching. Pretty disappointed in this whole portal thing!!!!

 

[SunnyFL24]

Holy cow. While mainly a ladies basketball fan (which you need to be tough to watch them), I watched almost every volleyball game that was televised. I am shocked those gals are going into the portal. I really enjoyed watching them play. Having been a H.S. basketball girls coach, when something like this happens, something has had to happen. In this day and age, it is either money, something within the locker room (team), or coaching. Pretty disappointed in this whole portal thing!!!!

Ya....not amateur sports anymore!! NCAA had a chance to get a head of this about 5 yrs ago. They knew it was coming and just punted....it's demanding being a student athlete...they should of implemented a stripen of say $500 a month for student athletes. But now,by not acting on it, it's the wild wild West and totally out of control. Dude goin to BYU next year for basketball getting 7 mill a yr...just insane!!

 

[purduedavie]

Holy cow. While mainly a ladies basketball fan (which you need to be tough to watch them), I watched almost every volleyball game that was televised. I am shocked those gals are going into the portal. I really enjoyed watching them play. Having been a H.S. basketball girls coach, when something like this happens, something has had to happen. In this day and age, it is either money, something within the locker room (team), or coaching. Pretty disappointed in this whole portal thing!!!!

It has to be money, it was reported on here that Purdue doesn’t have a collective for Volleyball, girls get NIL by fans purchasing jersey/signing autographs etc, you’ll see Chloe and Hudson at either Penn State, Nebraska, Wisky, obviously they’ll get paid, bunch of bullshit really.

 

[pboiler18]

Try keeping a straight face when an NIL/Collective rep asks you to pony up for a volleyball player…

 

[New Pal Boiler]

It has to be money, it was reported on here that Purdue doesn’t have a collective for Volleyball, girls get NIL by fans purchasing jersey/signing autographs etc, you’ll see Chloe and Hudson at either Penn State, Nebraska, Wisky, obviously they’ll get paid, bunch of bullshit really.

We just need that billionaire alum to also be a volleyball fan.

 

[purduedavie]

We just need that billionaire alum to also be a volleyball fan.

It’s just odd that Purdue can’t compete with Nebraska, Wisconsin etc, do they have billionaire volleyball fan boosters?

 

[PUQBMan.]

Ya....not amateur sports anymore!! NCAA had a chance to get a head of this about 5 yrs ago. They knew it was coming and just punted....it's demanding being a student athlete...they should have implemented a stripen of say $500 a month for student athletes. But now,by not acting on it, it's the wild wild West and totally out of control. Dude goin to BYU next year for basketball getting 7 mill a yr...just insane!!

Athletes have gotten stipends for a loooong time. Also, $6,000 a year is laughable considering some players are now getting paid multimillions just to attend a school. If you think a stipend would fix it, it would need to be at least $10,000 per month. Even then, players would still be getting millions to transfer.

 

[PUQBMan.]

Try keeping a straight face when an NIL/Collective rep asks you to pony up for a volleyball player…

At this point I’d rather fund a volleyball player than a football player. At least our volleyball team has been consistently solid for a while now.

 

[SunnyFL24]

Athletes have gotten stipends for a loooong time. Also, $6,000 a year is laughable considering some players are now getting paid multimillions just to attend a school. If you think a stipend would fix it, it would need to be at least $10,000 per month. Even then, players would still be getting millions to transfer.

It would of capped it across the board...student athletes complaints for decades is they dint have pizza money and can't have jobs with work load...valid point! But if they would of implemented a monthly payout to student athletes some ten twenty years ago...they could of been ahead of the curve...but when NW athletes took them in front of Congress....the ruling blew the lid off it and this is the end result. NCAA totally blew it when they had a chance to fix it. As for the portal...which is a joke that an athlete can transfer every year. Makes no sense.

 

[MichaelRR]

It would of capped it across the board...student athletes complaints for decades is they dint have pizza money and can't have jobs with work load...valid point! But if they would of implemented a monthly payout to student athletes some ten twenty years ago...they could of been ahead of the curve...but when NW athletes took them in front of Congress....the ruling blew the lid off it and this is the end result. NCAA totally blew it when they had a chance to fix it. As for the portal...which is a joke that an athlete can transfer every year. Makes no sense.

Problem is the NCAA is not a single entity, but a collection of schools, and only a couple dozen have/had the resources to pay that stipend to all 500-700 athletes on scholarship. The have-nots would have lost even more money and we might have seen schools dropping out of D1 because of financial losses. Yes, OSU brings in millions from athletics, but Ball State struggles to field teams and break even, and that was before athletes started getting paid. At this point the whole structure is a house of cards about to collapse. There simply is not enough money in the system to keep more than 4-5 dozen schools able to compete in the 4 main sports, and that number may be an exageration. Collegiate athletics is dying, to be replaced to professional teams with university names attached to them the way European pro leagues are owned by corporate sponsors.

 

[Purdue58]

This news is almost nauseating. This team was poised to make some serious noise next year with Chicoine and Hudson coming back. There has to be something else going on here.

SHOW ME THE MONEY
Purdue thinks it can get good players and keep them just by throwing a little money there way.
This should be an eye opener because if it happens in volleyball then what's next our chess team?

 

[New Pal Boiler]

It’s just odd that Purdue can’t compete with Nebraska, Wisconsin etc, do they have billionaire volleyball fan boosters?

Maybe they have 10 folks each worth $100 million willing to peel off $500K a year each for volleyball?

 

[ghostoffatjack]

When the coach does not leave or get fired, in today's collegiate sports all to often it is about two things 1) show me the money and 2) playing time!

 

[BoilerPride08]

Announced today that they've added Akasha Anderson from the portal. She's a 6'3 outside hitter from Michigan State. This past year she recorded 356 kills which ranks 13th in the BIG and 3.27 kills/set rankings 18th in the conference. Her numbers pretty much mirror Chicoine's from this past season - although Chloe was our second offensive option to Eva, obviously. Still a nice addition that may help the bleeding.

 

[PurdueVBFan]

Announced today that they've added Akasha Anderson from the portal. She's a 6'3 outside hitter from Michigan State. This past year she recorded 356 kills which ranks 13th in the BIG and 3.27 kills/set rankings 18th in the conference. Her numbers pretty much mirror Chicoine's from this past season - although Chloe was our second offensive option to Eva, obviously. Still a nice addition that may help the bleeding.

She’s a solid pickup for Purdue. Still short 3-4 players (hitting positions) so hopefully Shondell can continue getting strong pickups in the portal.

 

[purduedavie]

She’s a solid pickup for Purdue. Still short 3-4 players (hitting positions) so hopefully Shondell can continue getting strong pickups in the portal.

Guessing Purdue brings in 2 more.

 

[purduedavie]

Announced today that they've added Akasha Anderson from the portal. She's a 6'3 outside hitter from Michigan State. This past year she recorded 356 kills which ranks 13th in the BIG and 3.27 kills/set rankings 18th in the conference. Her numbers pretty much mirror Chicoine's from this past season - although Chloe was our second offensive option to Eva, obviously. Still a nice addition that may help the bleeding.

Much taller than Chloe, she was all Sec while at Auburn, Purdue will get 2-3 more players, guessing good ones, this is still a top flight program that’s going to get good players, there’s money for girls to make here.

 

[BoilerPride08]

Right now here's next year's outlook:

We have 2 positions set in stone with Anderson being the setter and McAleer sliding over and being the libero.

Now for the projections:

Defensive
I believe incoming freshman Warren has the ability to team up with McAleer and be our starting DS.

Hitting -
Anderson will be a day 1 starter - the question mark is who will she team up with. Possibly another high level transfer or a healthy Heaney or an emerged Wollard. I can also see rookie Tindall factoring in as well.

Blocking
Miller seems to be a Day 1 starter. Now the question is - who does she team up with? This is the biggest question mark as we only have 1 more MB on the team currently and that's a rookie in Williams. We have to get another transfer in to sure up our block.

 

[purduedavie]

Right now here's next year's outlook:

We have 2 positions set in stone with Anderson being the setter and McAleer sliding over and being the libero.

Now for the projections:

Defensive
I believe incoming freshman Warren has the ability to team up with McAleer and be our starting DS.

Hitting -
Anderson will be a day 1 starter - the question mark is who will she team up with. Possibly another high level transfer or a healthy Heaney or an emerged Wollard. I can also see rookie Tindall factoring in as well.

Blocking
Miller seems to be a Day 1 starter. Now the question is - who does she team up with? This is the biggest question mark as we only have 1 more MB on the team currently and that's a rookie in Williams. We have to get another transfer in to sure up our block.

My guess is Purdue will likely be a top 20 team, to good of a program with to good of a fan base and money opportunities for girls to fall very far.