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Overall, no matter how this game turns out, know that this game is just the beginning. There's a women's basketball program in Central Ohio that has very high expectations this year and they came out flat against USC on a neutral court. The defending national champions with a lot of key players back, two big transfer pick ups, and the 2nd best freshman in one of the best NCAAW classes ever (I'm my opinion), lost to #20 Colorado by 14 points (92-78). This program lost to Oakland last year by 7 (67-74). Win or lose in overtime, it's impressive that with all these transfers they don't look as flat as some programs have looked today. It feels like this team will only improve the more time they get on the court together (which is probably a big factor in their high number of turnovers right now).

I agree about the talent level in NE Ohio at the HS/Club level. I think it’s still too early to judge the new coach's recruiting at this moment, but I agree that so far it looks like she's done a decent job recruiting considering how late she got the job prior to last season. There is one decision on the recruiting trail for the class of 2024 that has me confused, but I want to see the entire 2024 class before I start to question the omission.

Coach Jackson taking assistant position at Cleveland State https://twitter.com/CSU_WBasketball/status/1688995432410841088?t=fXvPS0bTXiVg070COrxAVg&s=19

18 more have been added that have either received an offer, visited, or there has been interest according to social media posts (with a link to each one). Let me know if I have missed any that anyone else might have seen. I don't have them in order quite yet as I have been quite busy dealing with family members' rehab/recovery from surgeries they had this past month or so. Twitter/X has been hard to get all of them to show up when typing in search. I think I got them all, but you never know with these apps, especially Twitter/X right now.

I gave up at halftime. I have no clue why the Clippers coach wouldn't play everyone. Some of the box scores I've seen from the summer league, most are playing everyone unless they shut someone down for the rest of the summer league. Part of me wonders if the first couple games the coach was trying to win to rise his own stock to show the rest of the league that he deserves a full time NBA assistant position so he kept playing the same guys (most were 2nd year guys too so that checks out). I'm glad to see X get some minutes yesterday. Hope he gets even more minutes tomorrow!

Yeah, I watched it hoping to see him get some minutes. Planning on doing the same tonight. If he doesn't get any minutes again tonight, I might start disliking the Clippers again for cutting into my sleep for nothing.

LA Clippers Summer League Schedule. First game is tomorrow night.

Currently ranked 52nd in the country in the 2025 class

Might go interim this year and have a full season to find the successor. I hope not because that would put a certain head coach in the discussion for it if that head coach and team has the success that we all think they will have this season.

I wish I could go to this on the 21st, but I have a parent getting two surgeries within the next few weeks (first one being June 15th), and I'm not sure I'm going to be able to get away long enough to take the trip there and back (the drive to Akron and back will be as long as this event). Should be a fun night for those that have the chance to go with all the newcomers into the program (staff and student-athletes).

The comments (in the replies on Twitter) make it sound like Guthrie didn't want to keep Donnelly. I didn't read the Rogers tweet that way at all. Sounded to me like a Sun Belt school may have seen what he did this season and wants to make him their coach. From Donnelly's perspective, it's probably a no-brainer that Sun Belt (better weather) baseball is an ideal better conference than the MAC, especially in recruiting.

In the release: 2023-24 Akron Women's Basketball Signing Class (as of May 10, 2023) Olivia Brown, G, 6-1, Fishers, Ind. (Hamilton Southeastern) Teniesha Clarke, G, 5-9, Burlington, Ontario (AN Meyer Secondary | Niagara Prep) Morgan Haney, G, 5-8, Piqua, Ohio (Miami East | Albany) Leila Jones, G/F, 5-10, Westerville, Ohio (Westerville South) Dacia Lewandowski, G, 5-11, Pittsburgh, Pa. (North Catholic) Alexus Mobley, G, 5-7, Indianapolis, Ind. (Franklin Central | Danville CC) Lanae Riley, 6-2, F, Akron, Ohio (Archbishop Hoban/Middle Tennessee State) Liisa Taponen, 6-5, C, Tampere, Finland (Mäkelänrinteen Upper Secondary School/Illinois) Kaia Woods, 5-3, G, Tiffin, Ohio (Royal Crown Academy/Washington State)

Here's the interview with him from several months ago when he was on that show the first time Here is the one from the other day that Sergeant Zip posted about with just the Kaulig interview part:

I would love to see the MAC tourney return here next year if they're going to a 6-team format. The high school softball state championships are held there every year.

To me, generating interest from a press conference in March/April for a season that doesn't start until October/November isn't the most ideal, but that's just me. Even a meet & greet doesn't make sense this early. You have seniors that won't be around, transfers/freshmen may not even be on campus yet, some students that you're targeting to go to games wouldn't even be there in the Fall while missing out on the incoming freshmen class of students. Having a meet & greet in the Fall in September/October makes a lot of sense to me to generate more interest. But again, I don't have "20+ years in marketing/advertising/PR talking" so I probably have no idea what I'm talking about here 🤷‍♂️

You and the press conference again 😂 It's not that big of a deal in my opinion, especially in today's world. Does every head coaching change get a press conference? I don't recall women's soccer, baseball, softball, and/or T & F getting one. I'd be more interested in a meet & greet than a press conference because how much of the media would really be at the press conference? Community engagement would be more effective with a meet & greet than a press conference in my opinion.

I didn't realize the MAC has only the top 4 seeds qualify now for the conference tournament. I thought they were a lock in an 8 team conference tournament. Oops 🤦‍♂️ The fact they were competitive this year is a great start for the new staff and the student-athletes in this program.

2026. I'm just now getting the chance to add it to the list as well as another one today.

So what does this mean for Freeman? Does this hurt/help him coming back? Or is it a given he won't back out of the draft?