A guard would be nice,but a post is the highest need.
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Originally posted by shockmonster View PostOr a good player didn't like being in a loser program.Last edited by 1972Shocker; August 3, 2014, 04:12 PM.
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Originally posted by shockmonster View PostOr a good player didn't like being in a loser program.
That said the last of their 4 Elite 8's was in 2003 and the last of 11 Sweet 16's was in 2005 so their program does seem to be on the wane (somewhat similar to Shocker Baseball). Whether hiring one of their own, Candi Whitaker, last year will resurrect their program remains to be seen. I would think recruiting to Lubbock, Texas has its challenges, although they have proved it can be done.
Still, overall the Shocker fans would kill for that kind of program tradition in our WBB program, not withstanding that Texas Tech was a pretty bad basketball team last year.
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Originally posted by 1972Shocker View PostI would think recruiting to Lubbock, Texas has its challenges, although they have proved it can be done.
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Originally posted by flyingMoose View PostThe Red Raider heyday was during the Marsha Sharp era. She won with players from primarily small-town west Texas. (Think Deb Patterson.) The star of their national championship team was Sheryl Swoopes who is now the head women's basketball coach at Loyola. Swoopes came from Brownwood, TX, whose current population is about 19,000. While Ms. Sharp was coaching at Tech, they actually played in a WSU-hosted tournament. Are the times different with an emphasis on big-city, AAU girls? Quite possibly.
Too bad Jackie Styles did not suffer from the same desire to be close to home, although Wichita is only slightly closer to Claflin then Manhattan so even if she wanted to stay close to home she probably would have picked K-State. (SMS, UConn and K-State were her final three - she grew up as KU fan and they were in her Top 10 but she just felt more comfortable at SMS, UConn and K-State.) Even better would have been a homesick Lynette Woodward. Oh well...
Deb Patterson certainly hit the recruiting lottery with Nicole Ohlde, Kendra Wecker and Laurie Koehn who were within 115mi., 60 mi. and 40 mi. of Manhattan respectively. But finding that kind of talent concentrated in close by small communities in a small population state during the same time period was going to be tough to repeat. But it certainly put K-State women's basketball on the map for a while until Deb Patterson apparently became somewhat overzealous in pushing her religious beliefs on her players and assistant coaches..Last edited by 1972Shocker; June 30, 2014, 02:29 PM.
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I see former Shocker Jacie Hoyt-Capra has landed on the new K-State staff.
It will be interesting to see if the new coaching staff at KSU can re-invigorate that program. I have to admit I was really surprised with what I saw when the Shocks blew out K-State 69-46 in Manhattan last year, although K-State was very young last year and the Shockers relentless style took advantage of the inexperience.
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Originally posted by RoyalShock View PostOriginally posted by mumdaddy316 View Posthttps://m.youtube.com/watch?v=fT1345wCS8g
Here is some film on miss Anna, excited to get this young lady. Really hope she is eligible to play immediately.
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Originally posted by mumdaddy316 View Posthttps://m.youtube.com/watch?v=fT1345wCS8g
Here is some film on miss Anna, excited to get this young lady. Really hope she is eligible to play immediately.
Last edited by WstateU; June 30, 2014, 06:11 PM."You Just Want to Slap The #### Outta Some People"
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