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Post by unalions on Mar 9, 2019 11:45:59 GMT -6
ASUN teams started doubling Panetti and we finished the year 3-6. She had only 2 points against both FGCU and North Florida in early February. In my opinion, she needs to hit the weight room. Teams like Liberty that have several big girls bounced her around like a rag doll. Speaking of Bond, her little sister will be a Lion next year. Unfortunately, she's a short guard. Thankfully, she can drain threes. www.hudl.com/profile/8659597/Jaida-BondThere was also a mention of transfers - that seems to be the trend in the ASUN. FGCU is a team full of them. Bond was a transfer from South FL to North FL. Liberty had a mid-season big from Ole Miss that totally changed their team. This was a team of guards with one forward. We need some beef and height in the middle.
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Post by unafied on Mar 9, 2019 12:12:36 GMT -6
ASUN teams started doubling Panetti and we finished the year 3-6. She had only 2 points against both FGCU and North Florida in early February. In my opinion, she needs to hit the weight room. Teams like Liberty that have several big girls bounced her around like a rag doll. Speaking of Bond, her little sister will be a Lion next year. Unfortunately, she's a short guard. Thankfully, she can drain threes. www.hudl.com/profile/8659597/Jaida-BondThere was also a mention of transfers - that seems to be the trend in the ASUN. FGCU is a team full of them. Bond was a transfer from South FL to North FL. Liberty had a mid-season big from Ole Miss that totally changed their team. This was a team of guards with one forward. We need some beef and height in the middle. Agree about Panetti. She is good, but her game could still improve. I think transfers will be the new norm, whether it’s a good thing or not. Recruiting players will never end (even if it’s supposed to when a player signs with another school - wink wink). If we recruit someone hard and they end up signing with, say, a UAB or similar type school, and then they find they don’t get the minutes they want, we might see them come back to us down the road. The days of a lot of players being content on sitting the bench for 2 or 3 years “waiting their turn” are probably over.
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Post by unalions on Mar 9, 2019 12:16:34 GMT -6
ASUN teams started doubling Panetti and we finished the year 3-6. She had only 2 points against both FGCU and North Florida in early February. In my opinion, she needs to hit the weight room. Teams like Liberty that have several big girls bounced her around like a rag doll. Speaking of Bond, her little sister will be a Lion next year. Unfortunately, she's a short guard. Thankfully, she can drain threes. www.hudl.com/profile/8659597/Jaida-BondThere was also a mention of transfers - that seems to be the trend in the ASUN. FGCU is a team full of them. Bond was a transfer from South FL to North FL. Liberty had a mid-season big from Ole Miss that totally changed their team. This was a team of guards with one forward. We need some beef and height in the middle. Agree about Panetti. She is good, but her game could still improve. I think transfers will be the new norm, whether it’s a good thing or not. Recruiting players will never end (even if it’s supposed to when a player signs with another school - wink wink). If we recruit someone hard and they end up signing with, say, a UAB or similar type school, and then they find they don’t get the minutes they want, we might see them come back to us down the road. The days of a lot of players being content on sitting the bench for 2 or 3 years “waiting their turn” are probably over. That's exactly what happened to Bond and Liberty's transfer. Both started at other DI's and realized by Christmas they weren't getting the playing time they wanted. They transferred, sat a year, and joined their current squad's mid-season the next year.
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Post by lions09 on Mar 9, 2019 14:48:15 GMT -6
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Post by unafied on Mar 9, 2019 15:13:08 GMT -6
They should’ve just given us an “incomplete”. Pretty dumb to rank us this early on, but even more so back in October. This made me laugh - an unnamed D2 assistant saying “the location isn’t great”. I mean, that statement can have so many different meanings. It’s even funnier if coming from someone in Cleveland, MS, or Livingston, AL, etc. But it just sounds like that were grasping for something negative to say. Whatever. As a native of Florence I might have a slight chip on my shoulder there...
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Post by brandon on Mar 9, 2019 22:26:11 GMT -6
They should’ve just given us an “incomplete”. Pretty dumb to rank us this early on, but even more so back in October. This made me laugh - an unnamed D2 assistant saying “the location isn’t great”. I mean, that statement can have so many different meanings. It’s even funnier if coming from someone in Cleveland, MS, or Livingston, AL, etc. But it just sounds like that were grasping for something negative to say. Whatever. As a native of Florence I might have a slight chip on my shoulder there... Had breakfast with Coach at the pancake breakfast this morning. He(and his wife) love Florence. Said that was his biggest draw for the job. "Its not a cookie cutter town." He said he really wants to build his legacy here. He loves the history of the program and wants to be a major part of it, not just a stepping stone.
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Post by unafied on Mar 9, 2019 23:45:00 GMT -6
They should’ve just given us an “incomplete”. Pretty dumb to rank us this early on, but even more so back in October. This made me laugh - an unnamed D2 assistant saying “the location isn’t great”. I mean, that statement can have so many different meanings. It’s even funnier if coming from someone in Cleveland, MS, or Livingston, AL, etc. But it just sounds like that were grasping for something negative to say. Whatever. As a native of Florence I might have a slight chip on my shoulder there... Had breakfast with Coach at the pancake breakfast this morning. He(and his wife) love Florence. Said that was his biggest draw for the job. "Its not a cookie cutter town." He said he really wants to build his legacy here. He loves the history of the program and wants to be a major part of it, not just a stepping stone. That’s great. I saw a lot of positives this season from the men, despite the record. I think we’ll see a better team next year. I don’t worry much about him leaving. If he does, it’ll be because we’ve gotten to a point where our success is attracting bigger schools.
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