from a guy in the restaurant we were eating.
and takes off her false eyelashes.
remember, only the FB programs gets significant slack on admissions
... at any given point.
My gut tells me a lot had to do with timing: during her recruitment period, ND was expecting Ali Patberg to be the current and/or future point guard. (Remember, Evans graduated from high school in 2017.)
A top recruit like Evans would be looking for playing time and having Ali Paterg pencilled in during your recruiting could dissuade that.
And there could've been other factors on both sides: her other finalists were Purdue and Tennessee.
In any case, one of the many ironies is what happened: Patberg ran into injury/illness issues, Lili Thomson grad transferred in and got infured and ND went to a Mabrey/Young lead guard attack to win a N/C.
Of course, the slate looks pretty bare now with Evans in Louisville, Patberg in Bloomington and Jordan Nixon in College Station, Texas. And now Dara Mabrey comes in from Blacksburg, Va..
What a long, strange trip it's been.
Hopefully, MM, Michaela and Beth will find a PG who will spend (more than) a few years.
Mabrey not coming here will effect us? I realize that may be an unanswerable question depending on who we recruit going forward. I know it hurts short term. The theoretical impact of Patberg transferring had to have hurt. That's the negative no one thinks about is how that transfer may have impacted any recruits that may have thought about coming here. It is why I can't cheer for them on the basketball court when they walk away because it really hurts the program. I know that is not very "civil"" of me but can't help it
I got the sense she didn't want to come here. I also got the sense Muffet wasn't that enamored. She's good and we do need 3 point shooters but that ship has passed and it might not even be that great a boat to begin with.
both made huge impacts in the program recently
that is why I was so disappointed that Dara went elsewhere-thus my fascination
although smaller, she might be the best of the 3
you can't teach that Mabrey "do whatever it takes to win" attitude
I tune in VT games just to watch her
with Muffet's new expanded roster recruiting. Of course we are still not 100% sure she wanted ND
that didn't come. In regards to Evans I was asking about the impact on recruiting players when someone like Patberg was perceived to be entrenched. I believe I remember with Mabrey is she wanted to forge he own path but was asking what impact she would have had if she had come here. Time will tell, as with any recruit, whether it would have made any difference.