Women’s Head Basketball Coach Announced

[vu72]

Hired on 4/13 and as of 4/30 we still have no assistants. Are we in the middle of an evaluation period? It would be nice to have some help on the road.

Maybe they've been hired but their waiting to announce. Remember when Coach Manuel left for UNCW it took to till July to announce his hiring but I'm pretty sure he was hired well before the official announcement. It is curious why it's taking so long.

Do we have any open scholarships on the women's team left? We're in the crucial 2019 recruiting period right now. I'm sure Coach Evans has been on the recruiting trail already. Hopefully her staff is too.

I don't think so.  We graduated two and signed two.  There are two seniors on next years team however.  The two new freshman are both guards and so are the two seniors for next year.  All the bigs will be sophomores so three years to improve.

[bbtds]

Hired on 4/13 and as of 4/30 we still have no assistants. Are we in the middle of an evaluation period? It would be nice to have some help on the road.

Maybe they've been hired but their waiting to announce. Remember when Coach Manuel left for UNCW it took to till July to announce his hiring but I'm pretty sure he was hired well before the official announcement. It is curious why it's taking so long.

Do we have any open scholarships on the women's team left? We're in the crucial 2019 recruiting period right now. I'm sure Coach Evans has been on the recruiting trail already. Hopefully her staff is too.

Maybe she sent them to N Korea to talk to Kim Jung Un so that MLB will say "what great hires they are."

[IndyValpo]

Hired on 4/13 and as of 4/30 we still have no assistants. Are we in the middle of an evaluation period? It would be nice to have some help on the road.

Maybe they've been hired but their waiting to announce. Remember when Coach Manuel left for UNCW it took to till July to announce his hiring but I'm pretty sure he was hired well before the official announcement. It is curious why it's taking so long.

Do we have any open scholarships on the women's team left? We're in the crucial 2019 recruiting period right now. I'm sure Coach Evans has been on the recruiting trail already. Hopefully her staff is too.

I don't think so.  We graduated two and signed two.  There are two seniors on next years team however.  The two new freshman are both guards and so are the two seniors for next year.  All the bigs will be sophomores so three years to improve.

Could graduate 3 if Schaub decides not to use a redshirt year. I assume we are all over the Nolan twins from Marquette Catholic given their de-commit from SLU last week. 

[Pgmado]

Could graduate 3 if Schaub decides not to use a redshirt year. I assume we are all over the Nolan twins from Marquette Catholic given their de-commit from SLU last week. 

Zero chance they come to Valparaiso. They decommitted from St. Louis because they are looking up, not down. Hearing Duke is in play.

[vu72]

Could graduate 3 if Schaub decides not to use a redshirt year. I assume we are all over the Nolan twins from Marquette Catholic given their de-commit from SLU last week.

Zero chance they come to Valparaiso. They decommitted from St. Louis because they are looking up, not down. Hearing Duke is in play.

Might want to check your facts.  Valpo's RPI is 146 and St. Louis' is 163!  The Valley's RPI is 13th and the A-10's is 20th!  That would be "further up"  Not down!!   

[VULB#62]

Duke is in the ACC which is very UP 

[Biggreen55]

While it can't hurt to re-recruit the twins, I think the chances are slim, even if you believe that coming to Valpo would be a step up from Saint Louis...
As I understand it, they are playing with Midwest Elite's EYBL squad over the spring/summer AAU season. If that is the case, they are likely looking for a P5 conference offer, as virtually every player in the EYBL circuit receives one. Rumor had it that prior to their de-commitment from SL they were not even going to play AAU this year because there was no need from a recruiting perspective....

All that having been said, who knows whether they show well in the EYBL circuit, plus they have multiple peripheral connections to VU (their high school coach, the parents of their Marquette teammates, etc.), so the chances are better than zero if Valpo offers them. I just wouldn't count on it...

[IndyValpo]

Could graduate 3 if Schaub decides not to use a redshirt year. I assume we are all over the Nolan twins from Marquette Catholic given their de-commit from SLU last week.

Zero chance they come to Valparaiso. They decommitted from St. Louis because they are looking up, not down. Hearing Duke is in play.

Might want to check your facts.  Valpo's RPI is 146 and St. Louis' is 163!  The Valley's RPI is 13th and the A-10's is 20th!  That would be "further up"  Not down!!   

Perhaps we are confusing the men's and women's programs here.......

[vu72]

Could graduate 3 if Schaub decides not to use a redshirt year. I assume we are all over the Nolan twins from Marquette Catholic given their de-commit from SLU last week.

Zero chance they come to Valparaiso. They decommitted from St. Louis because they are looking up, not down. Hearing Duke is in play.

Might want to check your facts.  Valpo's RPI is 146 and St. Louis' is 163!  The Valley's RPI is 13th and the A-10's is 20th!  That would be "further up"  Not down!!   

Perhaps we are confusing the men's and women's programs here.......

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You might be but I wasn't.  In baseball St. Louis' RPI is 124 while ours is 183 but, The Valley's RPI in baseball is 10 while the A-10's is 20.

[IndyValpo]

Could graduate 3 if Schaub decides not to use a redshirt year. I assume we are all over the Nolan twins from Marquette Catholic given their de-commit from SLU last week.

Zero chance they come to Valparaiso. They decommitted from St. Louis because they are looking up, not down. Hearing Duke is in play.

Might want to check your facts.  Valpo's RPI is 146 and St. Louis' is 163!  The Valley's RPI is 13th and the A-10's is 20th!  That would be "further up"  Not down!!   

Perhaps we are confusing the men's and women's programs here.......

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You might be but I wasn't.  In baseball St. Louis' RPI is 124 while ours is 183 but, The Valley's RPI in baseball is 10 while the A-10's is 20.
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Could graduate 3 if Schaub decides not to use a redshirt year. I assume we are all over the Nolan twins from Marquette Catholic given their de-commit from SLU last week.

Zero chance they come to Valparaiso. They decommitted from St. Louis because they are looking up, not down. Hearing Duke is in play.

Might want to check your facts.  Valpo's RPI is 146 and St. Louis' is 163!  The Valley's RPI is 13th and the A-10's is 20th!  That would be "further up"  Not down!!   

Perhaps we are confusing the men's and women's programs here.......

[/b]

You might be but I wasn't.  In baseball St. Louis' RPI is 124 while ours is 183 but, The Valley's RPI in baseball is 10 while the A-10's is 20.

Very interesting and irrelevant stats given the discussion is about women's basketball

[vu72]

Could graduate 3 if Schaub decides not to use a redshirt year. I assume we are all over the Nolan twins from Marquette Catholic given their de-commit from SLU last week.

Zero chance they come to Valparaiso. They decommitted from St. Louis because they are looking up, not down. Hearing Duke is in play.

Might want to check your facts.  Valpo's RPI is 146 and St. Louis' is 163!  The Valley's RPI is 13th and the A-10's is 20th!  That would be "further up"  Not down!!   

Perhaps we are confusing the men's and women's programs here.......

[/b]

You might be but I wasn't.  In baseball St. Louis' RPI is 124 while ours is 183 but, The Valley's RPI in baseball is 10 while the A-10's is 20.
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Could graduate 3 if Schaub decides not to use a redshirt year. I assume we are all over the Nolan twins from Marquette Catholic given their de-commit from SLU last week.

Zero chance they come to Valparaiso. They decommitted from St. Louis because they are looking up, not down. Hearing Duke is in play.

Might want to check your facts.  Valpo's RPI is 146 and St. Louis' is 163!  The Valley's RPI is 13th and the A-10's is 20th!  That would be "further up"  Not down!!   

Perhaps we are confusing the men's and women's programs here.......

[/b]

You might be but I wasn't.  In baseball St. Louis' RPI is 124 while ours is 183 but, The Valley's RPI in baseball is 10 while the A-10's is 20.

Very interesting and irrelevant stats given the discussion is about women's basketball

Ugh!  What a dumb a$$.  My apologies.

[jack]

Just goes to show you that, verbal commitments aren't worth the paper they are written on!! 
I believe they'll set their sights higher now that they got some exposure winning state. Katie did a great job with them. Another reason why we should have entertained bringing Katie in for an interview. My guess is, had she been considered, the twins would have followed.

[Biggreen55]

Not saying the coach at Marquette didn't do a great job, but she WAS handed a complete freshman AAU team that was one of the top 1A teams in the state their first year in high school and went something like 21-4 that year with all the losses to good 3A and 4A teams. Obviously they were able to win the title two years later, but that probably has as much to do with simple maturity as anything.
As for the twins following her, I'm not sure I would expect them to follow anyone given the track record. In addition, it's hard to gauge how good they will be at the next level because they haven't played a ton of competition at the 1A level and they only have one season of regional level AAU under their belts at the high school level. The "star" on that team was a kid that is playing for Nebraska next year.
Short story is I wouldn't beat the administration up for going a different direction. Hopefully the new coach has more success than the previous coach.