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Already in the transfer portal.

I'm still working on the old offers and figuring that out which is why those ones haven't been added yet. I'm working on adding those ones from 2024 and younger to the list sometime this weekend. I just want to do a little research first to see if I'm missing any of them. Those currently on the list are the three commits under Jackson & the rest have been commitments/ offers from Gensler.

As of Yesterday (04/26)

As far as I know, those three 2023 commitments are still coming to Akron. I've been looking for anything that shows that any of them have re-opened their recruitment and haven't found anything yet. EDIT - I'm confident that Lewandowski and Jones are still coming based off their likes and their twitter account. Olivia Brown is the only one that I'm not sure about (nothing in her bio about Akron but her twitter profile picture is her NLI signing with Akron), but I haven't seen anything about her requesting her NLI release and re-opening her recruitment. My guess is all three are still coming to Akron.

I never understood how the program could be so bad when the conference tournament was literally held in your city every year (Firestone Stadium). Now it's hosted by the #1 seed, but that always frustrated me. Some of the stories I've heard about one of the former head coaches of this program from former players was insane. I'm not going to tell them as we're past that now, but it definitely showed administration didn't care about the program or it would have had a change a lot earlier than it did. I know time will tell on all these hires, but at least Guthrie has recognized the programs that needed change and has made those changes. I'm glad to see there has been improvement this year with the new staff. Hoping the team can make some noise in the conference tournament!

I have nothing to base this off of right now, but I wouldn't be shocked if a particular student-athlete in the transfer portal as a graduate transfer comes "home" to Ohio from a Power 5 school. Seems like their height, position, and experience would be a perfect fit for what might be needed still for this roster (if there is any spots left which I think there is at least one spot still). EDIT - Or another graduate transfer stays in Ohio and that one would make a ton of sense with the connection to this staff.

Stumbled upon this while listening to that podcast. Here is one he did for an Illinois podcast from when he got hired. (28 mins into the podcast) https://spotify.link/CZFNO802ezb

Yep, someone also said Hopewell-Loudon as well but not sure. I knew about the Canada & Tiffin Columbian parts. I try to keep up with Ohio women's basketball student-athletes and where they play collegiately. Here's the list I had put together during March Madness: NCAA D1 189 student-athletes 102 programs 32 states NCAA D2 227 student-athletes 53 programs 14 states NCAA D3 287 student-athletes 61 programs 15 states NAIA 152 student-athletes 49 programs 18 states For me, it shows how much talent is in the state of Ohio on the women's side. For example, the top JUCO player is from Columbus and is going to end up at Ole Miss or South Carolina (Sakima Walker).

There's the tweet

Yep, Tiffin Columbian High School.

People seem to be caught up on the press conference 😂 ...Don't worry, they'll be one eventually. In case you missed it, I think this tweet below might have had something to do with it. You don't want to schedule a press conference and then have to cancel it.

Akron coaching staff at work this weekend. One Akron coach sighting at the Cincinnati Clash (among others)