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| South Carolina 14-2 |
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| Tennessee 13-3 |
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21% |
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| Texas A&M 13-3 |
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10% |
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| Kentucky 10-6 |
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0% |
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| Florida 8-8 |
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2% |
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| Auburn 7-9 |
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0% |
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| Alabama 7-9 |
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0% |
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| Vanderbilt 7-9 |
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0% |
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| Georgia 7-9 |
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0% |
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| LSU 7-9 |
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2% |
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| Arkansas 6-10 |
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2% |
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| Missouri 6-10 |
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2% |
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| Mississipi St. 5-11 |
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0% |
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| Mississippi 2-14 |
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GlennMacGrady
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 Posted: 06/08/14 10:30 am ::: Who will win the SEC regular season next year? |
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South Carolina won it this past season, Tiffany Mitchell won the coaches' SEC POY award, Alaina Coates won SEC FOY, and four top recruits are entering, three of them McDonald's AA's: A'ja Wilson, Jatarie White, Bianca Cuevas, and Kaydra Duckett.
Yet Tennessee is also loaded, and many of the other teams are far from chopped liver.
The choices are listed by their records last season. |
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NoDakSt
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| Posted: 06/08/14 10:59 am ::: |
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| I like S. Caro., Tenn. and A&m for the league leaders.
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| Posted: 06/08/14 4:06 pm ::: |
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| S Carolina. Tenn seems to lose one or two conference games they shouldn't. Last year it was LSU at home and at Vandi. In prior years it's been teams like Arkansas and Missouri. And this year they will play at SC. I don't think Tenn has beaten a top 5 team on the road since Parker left.
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NoDakSt
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| Posted: 06/26/14 9:13 am ::: |
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Caldwell seems to be having trouble getting LSU off the ground. Specifically, she doesn't seem to be in the running for any top recruits year in and year out.
Her best class arguably was this one.
http://www.lsusports.net/ViewArticle.dbml?SPSID=27830&SPID=2167&DB_LANG=C&DB_OEM_ID=5200&ATCLID=205178127
But Boykin was hampered by illness and Fortham has wigged out wherever she's gone.
Additionally, JUCO LaQuinta Jefferson a 2012 signee, never showed.
This upcoming year's frosh class, which should have been a big reload class isn't stellar.
And they don't appear to be in the running for any of the studs in 2015 because it was rumored Brown wasn't very high on the list.
She's only coached 3 years at LSU; is it just taking her time to connect with new recruiting territories? Is she lost?
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ClayK
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| Posted: 06/26/14 9:48 am ::: |
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| NoDakSt wrote: |
Caldwell seems to be having trouble getting LSU off the ground. Specifically, she doesn't seem to be in the running for any top recruits year in and year out.
Her best class arguably was this one.
http://www.lsusports.net/ViewArticle.dbml?SPSID=27830&SPID=2167&DB_LANG=C&DB_OEM_ID=5200&ATCLID=205178127
But Boykin was hampered by illness and Fortham has wigged out wherever she's gone.
Additionally, JUCO LaQuinta Jefferson a 2012 signee, never showed.
This upcoming year's frosh class, which should have been a big reload class isn't stellar.
And they don't appear to be in the running for any of the studs in 2015 because it was rumored Brown wasn't very high on the list.
She's only coached 3 years at LSU; is it just taking her time to connect with new recruiting territories? Is she lost? |
Interesting. She did a good job at UCLA, but the recruiting competition was not nearly as ruthless in the Pac-12 as it is in the SEC (though that may be changing).
It doesn't matter how stylish you are or how much you know the game or how well you can motivate your players if you don't have the raw talent to work with. Of course, you can have a specific system that you can recruit to -- thus being able to succeed without the blue-chippers that everyone else wants -- but that's hard to do, and rare. Caldwell doesn't seem that innovative, which means she has to win the recruiting battles on a regular basis. Apparently, that's not happening, which is not good news for LSU.
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NoDakSt
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| Posted: 06/26/14 2:37 pm ::: |
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| NoDakSt wrote: |
Caldwell seems to be having trouble getting LSU off the ground. Specifically, she doesn't seem to be in the running for any top recruits year in and year out.
Her best class arguably was this one.
http://www.lsusports.net/ViewArticle.dbml?SPSID=27830&SPID=2167&DB_LANG=C&DB_OEM_ID=5200&ATCLID=205178127
But Boykin was hampered by illness and Fortham has wigged out wherever she's gone.
Additionally, JUCO LaQuinta Jefferson a 2012 signee, never showed.
This upcoming year's frosh class, which should have been a big reload class isn't stellar.
And they don't appear to be in the running for any of the studs in 2015 because it was rumored Brown wasn't very high on the list.
She's only coached 3 years at LSU; is it just taking her time to connect with new recruiting territories? Is she lost? |
Interesting. She did a good job at UCLA, but the recruiting competition was not nearly as ruthless in the Pac-12 as it is in the SEC (though that may be changing).
It doesn't matter how stylish you are or how much you know the game or how well you can motivate your players if you don't have the raw talent to work with. Of course, you can have a specific system that you can recruit to -- thus being able to succeed without the blue-chippers that everyone else wants -- but that's hard to do, and rare. Caldwell doesn't seem that innovative, which means she has to win the recruiting battles on a regular basis. Apparently, that's not happening, which is not good news for LSU. |
It will be interesting, if not enlightening to the questions at hand, to see how her team fares this year as this will be the first Tiger team with a roster exclusively recruited by Caldwell and Co. Plaisance, McKinney, and Kenney were all Van C. recruits. This last two seasons, those three were arguably the impact players on the team...and undoubtedly some of the credit for Plaisiance and McKinney being in the WNBA should go to Caldwell and her staff.
Caldwell's first two recruiting classes at UCLA weren't highly rated either although her last class: Justine Hartman, Kacy Swain, Shelia Boykin, and Moriah Faulk were seen as at least Top 10. And she was able to get these classes to perform well. So maybe she is pulling in the type of player that can fit her system. She was heading upward at UCLA so it could be suggested that she is doing the same at LSU. Granted to PAC 10 three years ago was not the SEC.
And while she was only Head Coach at UCLA for 3 seasons, she had worked as recruiting coordinator for the Bruins for at least 5 and as such, helped bring in the classes that included Christina Nzekwe, Regina Rogers, Darxa Morris, and Nina Earl (2006), and Atonye Nyingifa and Rebecca Gardner in (2007). It wasn't like she only had 3 years to impact the UCLA program.
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CannonVol
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| Posted: 06/26/14 8:39 pm ::: |
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| NoDakSt wrote: |
And while she was only Head Coach at UCLA for 3 seasons, she had worked as recruiting coordinator for the Bruins for at least 5 and as such, helped bring in the classes that included Christina Nzekwe, Regina Rogers, Darxa Morris, and Nina Earl (2006), and Atonye Nyingifa and Rebecca Gardner in (2007). It wasn't like she only had 3 years to impact the UCLA program. |
If you're talking about Nikki Caldwell, she left her Asst. Coaching position at Tennessee to take the head coach position at UCLA. The only position she held at UCLA was as head coach.
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GEF34
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| Posted: 06/27/14 1:05 am ::: |
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| NoDakSt wrote: |
Caldwell's first two recruiting classes at UCLA weren't highly rated either although her last class: Justine Hartman, Kacy Swain, Shelia Boykin, and Moriah Faulk were seen as at least Top 10. And she was able to get these classes to perform well. So maybe she is pulling in the type of player that can fit her system. She was heading upward at UCLA so it could be suggested that she is doing the same at LSU. Granted to PAC 10 three years ago was not the SEC.
And while she was only Head Coach at UCLA for 3 seasons, she had worked as recruiting coordinator for the Bruins for at least 5 and as such, helped bring in the classes that included Christina Nzekwe, Regina Rogers, Darxa Morris, and Nina Earl (2006), and Atonye Nyingifa and Rebecca Gardner in (2007). It wasn't like she only had 3 years to impact the UCLA program. |
Nikki Caldwell was at Tennessee before she was hired as the head coach at UCLA, so I'm confused in how she played a role with any of those players signing with UCLA, unless you mean she got them to stay at UCLA, but then Regina Rogers left before Nikki was hired so that wouldn't make sense either.
Edited: I didn't notice CannonVol already made a similar comment.
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