Ragin' Cajuns Women's Basketball win streak

[VObserver]

It may take an overall winning record to effectively turn the corner on recruiting. ?

What Kelley Hall did [and to his credit, Brodhead is doing it as well] is schedule a bunch of patsies in non-conference to pad his record and give his girls confidence. Once he got a couple of studly players, he upped the schedule a bit, resulting in the only at large bid to the NCAA [men or women] in the history of the school.

The missing part right now is the appearance of the couple of studly players.

[CajunDawgPound]

Do you?

Uhhh, yes. Have been to every home game since Brodhead hired and roughly 1/4 of road games. Don't recall seeing vo at any.... Especially at EKL where one sees EVERYONE.

[VObserver]

I have not seen any at EKL since Hall left. I have seen some at the Dome.

[CajunT]

Love his system; jury is still out on his ability to recruit athletes.

Disagree, he has recruited good athletes. He has come up short in the post, but with no tradition he will have to develop post players.

[VObserver]

T, I can agree with that to a point, and I certainly agree that he has done much better with guards than with post players, but even our guards are generally undersized. I know that is not as important in the women as it is in men's hoops, but good big players are still better than good small ones.

[Boomer]

I thought not hiring B-head the last go around was crazy with the exception of maybe getting Dobbie Plaisance--He made the McNeese program I think all know this and they did it with a philosophy and belief that he has brought to UL---Smaller quicker players with great defense and offensive speed to win in transition (JJ wouldn't have been high on their list to recruit) ------ But I am with VOB on this that height is a necessity just because of the nature of the game and rebounds that it will get you---Don't want to argue about it and hope he proves me dead wrong!!!

[VObserver]

I thought not hiring B-head the last go around was crazy with the exception of maybe getting Dobbie Plaisance--He made the McNeese program I think all know this and they did it with a philosophy and belief that he has brought to UL---Smaller quicker players with great defense and offensive speed to win in transition (JJ wouldn't have been high on their list to recruit) ------ But I am with VOB on this that height is a necessity just because of the nature of the game and rebounds that it will get you---Don't want to argue about it and hope he proves me dead wrong!!!

Boomer, I hate to admit it, but you and I are on the same page on this one. I really do like what Garry is doing, but I wish he could get some bigger girls, without sacrificing athleticism. We just are not very big or very physical.

[CrazyCajun]

Boomer, I hate to admit it, but you and I are on the same page on this one. I really do like what Garry is doing, but I wish he could get some bigger girls, without sacrificing athleticism. We just are not very big or very physical.

You do realize there isn't just a ton of really big athletic female basketball players walking around? We can't even find one for men's and we have a storied history. Women's has a long history of being terrible. Give the man time, he is winning with under sized players. There is also another female sport that a lot of tall girls play instead...volleyball.

[wcd35]

Boomer, I hate to admit it, but you and I are on the same page on this one. I really do like what Garry is doing, but I wish he could get some bigger girls, without sacrificing athleticism. We just are not very big or very physical.

He's stated before that those players just arent available. He'd rather take smaller girls that can actually play than just taking size with very little skill. From what he's said in interviews, it's something he's learned since he was in the SLC and now here. Many of the better teams at this level recruit mostly talented ballhandling players. The girls that are really tall and skilled end up at Big XII and SEC schools. You can find more decent big players on the men's side but the numbers arent there in the ladies game.

[Turbine]

Anna "Amazonka" Petrakova

Must have a recruiting budget.