Quinones was a red-shirt sophomore last year. She will have 2 year left to play. It is my understanding that Coach Glasco only wants to take a one year transfer if they are an immediate impact player eg.Bryan. If not he would prefer to get 2, 3, or 4 year eligibility transfers.
Glad to see the Cajuns getting more transfers! We have had a solid softball program for years so to see the team continuing to succeed always makes me happy! Ari definitely sounds promising, as she has more experience. Hopefully these two transfers can make an impact next season!
Ok. I get it. Gerry likes to recruit. And it's easier and quicker to recruit a proven (to a certain degree) Division 1 player who is immediately looking for a home than it is a high school player that is unproven against Division 1 competition and one you have to wait for. I also understand that the way the transfer portal is now arranged has dynamically changed college athletics. But there are lessons to be learned from those who have used transfers for years and have remained at the highest level of Division 1 softball.
Superficially, I don't have a problem using the portal for recruiting purposes. I do have a problem with overstocking your team with somebody else's players. It sends a message that you can't evaluate talent as you watch them over the 4-6 years they are in high school and travel ball nor train them once they are on your roster. If you look at the programs that have successfully utilized transfers over the years and are among the elite in college softball, when they recruit transfers, they are normally impact pitchers, not position players. Even when they do get a position player, it's never more than 2, they never bring in someone who will disrupt the core of the team. The core of the team is the incoming freshman class that is trained by the upperclassmen in the reality of what this program is about. Those who don't "get it" are never allowed into positions of leadership and influence, and cannot damage the flow of the program.
From my perspective, if Gerry keeps bringing in more transfers, he will rarely, if ever, make it beyond regionals. I know it's not true in every case, but transfers are about their own agenda. They leave a program for their own reasons and they bring those issues with them. It doesn't matter if they are transferring with 1, 2 or 3 years of eligibility left, they have to be taught the new system and the core values of that new team. The more transfers there are, the longer it takes and the more difficult the task.
There is one thing about this program that is the same as at every other elite program in the country: it does not rebuild, it reloads. There is only one thing left for this program to accomplish: win a national championship. Like other elite programs, it dominates it's league, it is successful against other elite programs, it hosts regionals, it wins regionals and super regionals, it has won games in the World Series. If Gerry will take one season to let his core recruits establish the foundation that all other recruiting classes must abide, he will find that it won't take long to be in the World Series and become a viable threat to win the national championship. It will happen quicker without transfers.
I emphatically agree. I am getting the idea that Gerry does not like to teach.
In 2008, UL won its first game in the WCWS. There were 4 first time freshmen on the field. Gabby Bridges, 1b, Katie Smith, lf, Donna Bourgeois, P, and Ashley Brignac, P. There were 2 senior transfers, Vanessa Soto, 2b and Brooke Broadhead, ss. It can be done.
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