The Azzi Fudd Question
by MPG (2020-06-11 10:42:30)
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We are now more than a third of the way through June and as Dillon reminded us yesterday, eight of the top ten prospects for 2021 on HG/ESPNW have announced commitments. Why hasn't Azzi Fudd made a public commitment? Here are three possible answers:

1. She has sworn allegiance to Yukon King, but won't announce it until the mutually agreed strategic moment. Or she could be waiting for her high school to re-open so that she can have a press conference to make her announcement. She has certainly earned that right.

2. She has committed to another school and is waiting to announce it until she thinks the time is right. Although if I were the coach who had just won this recruiting battle, I would want it to be on social media and the internet as soon as possible because it would greatly add to my recruiting momentum for 2021 and 2022.

3. Azzi may simply be undecided at this time. If so, then ND should be a contender. We know that she visited campus at least twice: October 2017 and December 2018. As a result, she has known Niele Ivey as an associate coach and recruiting coordinator. Maybe Azzi now likes the idea of having Niele as her head coach and knows that a commitment to ND would guarantee Niele having a great start to her head coaching career. Maybe the idea of Coquese Washington as her position coach is appealing. Maybe her time away from basketball due to injury and now the pandemic has allowed her to think more deeply about what she wants from her overall college education. Maybe...



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