OBear073akaSMFan said:
Another top 10 gone. Hard to recruit if we aren't bringing them here for a recruiting trip. Saving for them for the big game?
Seems to be the plan - I guess?? Hopefully there will be a few top student-athletes who are good mutual fits still remaining to woo in a fortnight's time
{fingers crossed}, what with the brutally accelerated pace of earlier & earlier recruiting/verbals in the aftermath of those NCAA rule changes... Keep in mind that the window of opportunity for recruiting visits this semester will narrow in the not too distant future - Thanksgiving, Bears away @ Athens for the UGA Invite, Finals 2nd week of Dec, etc.
Hmmm, if Teri were to host #1
Regan or #2
Alex at the
Big Game, reckon would be a good test of their loyalties & commitment leans to observe which fb team they are cheering on the hardest when we (hopefully) reclaim the Axe on the 17th lol (with the pair having already taken a trip to the Farm last month)...
Bears do have a dual meet v. the CSCAA #1 ranked
Horns @ Legends this coming Sat (hope some of you can make it there!), which could also present an opportunity for some visits. Just thinking out loud tho that visiting this weekend could prove sort of awkward for a top recruit like #3
Isabelle Stadden, since she was a guest @ Austin just last week...
There isn't a home fb match either on the 10th - but then again, don't reckon this constitutes a rigid requirement, esp if multiple recruiting weekends are spread out involving smaller batches of recruits.
Classic example of this -
Izzy,
Chloe &
Miranda Heckman (UT commit) showed up @ Spieker for the dual v. ASU on 19 Jan at the beginning of the year, obviously after the fb season had concluded.
Chloe then verballed to Cal 5 days following her visit (24th), with
Isabel pledging to the blue & gold a week after her trip (28th)! So these trips can, and do, produce some very tangible results soon afterwards...
Granted there's a very valid counterpoint perspective that "if a recruit commits before even visiting Berkeley, then the chances are they never wanted to come here"...
OTOH, competing programmes may have put a hard deadline on a promising prospect to commit after their early visit to their institution, which can increase our chances of "losing" these recruits before they ever get a chance to discover that they can be a great/better fit with Bears (families pulling the trigger cos of financial & other practical considerations, fearing their offspring may not get "as good" an offer elsewhere since she/he hasn't yet been invited to Cal & presented with an offer, etc etc).
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UrsusArctosCalifornicus said:
But am quite curious how some of you may feel about the (purely hypothetical/speculative ) scenario where Teri was to explore other equally promising options instead (taking into account academics, team & school fit, progression curve & upside etc.), and so head in a rather different direction than perhaps originally expected - such as looking at #8 Quinn Schaedler {#3 TX}, HM Ella Ristic {# 2 CA} & Samantha Pearson {#1 CA}...in addition to #3 Isabelle Stadden {#1 MN}, of course?
Speaking for just myself lol, would be ever so chuffed about seeing the likes of these swim aces make an appearance on campus in the near future:
- #3
Isabelle Stadden (academically-inclined, also looks up to Thleen & probably Natalie)
- #2
Alex Walsh (strong academics tradition @ Harpeth Hall, good friends with Cass & Izzy...heck I may even find it in my heart to magnanimously overlook Alex's massive transgression in making that ill-fated trip to the Farm
)
- #8
Quinn Schaedler-
Samantha Pearson {#1 CA}
Heck why not throw in "sizzling" #6
Phoebe Bacon as well whilst we're about it, no I'm not being greedy or unrealistic here at all lol
Would also welcome #9
Maxine Parker and/or #16
Grace Cooper since freestyle sprinters are always of great value esp for our programme - though TBH haven't personally come across any overt indicators of either recruit exhibiting a bias in favour of Bears...
Not really expecting the #1 recruit to show up to @ Cal as she has been displaying overt signs of being a v. heavy LSJU lean...but heck, I'd for one would love to recruit
Regan Smith, if only to annoy those furdettes (and D Roy haha) who have understandably been very assertive & persistent in their recruiting campaign & focus on reeling in Regan to the Dark Side...
