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Stinson has landed at IUPUI

I think you're overstating my influence 😂. The two I knew specifically about out of the Buffalo de-commits was from somewhere else (although I did see somewhere posted that Kohler requested on 3/22 as well). I would love to see her come to Akron, but there three guards coming in from the 2023 class (unless I'm missing any de commits) so if the coach is looking for a point guard, he's probably looking for one in the portal. That would be my guess.

I'll keep a list of offers and commitments here for each of the next few recruiting classes, starting with 2023. Let me know if you see any missing. Dates are when it was seen to be publicly announced by the student-athlete or school. 2023 Olivia Brown, 5'6 Point Guard, Hamilton Southeastern H.S. (Fishers, Indiana) - Committed on 6/17/2022 (in transfer portal) Leila Jones, 5'10 Shooting Guard, Westerville South H.S. (Westerville, Ohio) - Committed on 9/14/2022 (in transfer portal) Dacia Lewandowski, 5'11 Point Guard, North Catholic H.S. (Cranberry Township, Pennsylvania) - Committed on 4/06/2022 (transferred to Youngstown State) Teniesha Clarke, 5'9 Guard, Niagara Prep H.S. (Burlington, Ontario) - Committed on 4/27/2023 2024 Kendall Braden, 5'9 Guard, Toledo Christian H.S. (Toledo, Ohio) - Offered on 4/19/2023 - Committed to Toledo on 07/01/23 Brooke Carlson, 5'8 Point Guard, Batavia H.S. (Batavia, Illinois) - Offered on 04/16/2023 - Committed to Colorado State on 09/15/23 Kennedy Younkin, 6'2 Forward/Center, Teays Valley H.S. (Ashville, Ohio) - Offered on 04/18/2023 - Committed to East Tennessee State on 08/10/23 Kloe Froebe, 5'9 Guard, Lincoln Community H.S. (Lincoln, Illinois) - Offered on 04/26/2023 - Committed to Colorado State on 04/30/23 Cam Hoover, 6'0 Guard/Forward, Woodridge H.S. (Peninsula, Ohio) - Offered on 05/22/2023 - Committed to Murray State on 07/01/23 Emily Bratton, 5'7 Point Guard, Bloom-Carroll H.S. (Carroll, Ohio) - Visited on 07/05/2023 - Committed to Miami (OH) on 07/17/23 Dani Kujovic, 6'2 Forward, ???? H.S. (Eltham, Australia) - Interest on 06/20/2023 - Committed to Hawaii on 11/10/23 Ni'Rah Clark, 6'3 Center/Forward, Rogers H.S. (Toledo, Ohio) - Offered on 07/25/2023 - COMMITTED TO AKRON on 11/15/2023 Aurora Sorbye, 5'9 Point Guard, ???? H.S. (???, Norway) - Offered on 08/09/2023 - Committed to Wake Forest on 11/08/23 MacKenzie Givens, 5'9 ???, Princeton? H.S. (Cincinnati, OH) - Offered on 08/09/2023 - Committed to Xavier on 11/09/23 2025 Roxy White, 5'11 Guard, Example Academy (Frankfort, Illinois) - Offered on 04/16/2023 Naomi Benson, 6'3 Forward/Center, Streetsboro H.S. (Streetsboro, Ohio) - Offered on 05/01/2023 Monique Mitchell, 5'11 Forward, Washington H.S. (Elkhart, Indiana) - Offered on 05/22/2023 Bailey Breen, 6'3 Power Forward, Oceanside H.S. (Rockford, Maine) - Offered on 05/22/2023 Molly Rullo, 5'11 Guard/Forward? (not listed), Cardinal O'Hara H.S. (Springfield, Pennsylvania) - Offered on 06/01/2023 Zoe Mesuch, 5'5 Point Guard, Wallkill H.S. (Wallkill, New York) - Offered on 07/11/2023 Emily VanTimmeren, 6'3 Forward, Grand Rapids Catholic Central H.S. (Grand Rapids, Michigan) - Offered on 07/11/2023 Christina Pham, 5'7 Point Guard, Noble & Greenough School (Dedham, Massachusetts) - Offered on 07/20/2023 Ariella Henigan, 5'8 Point Guard, Kenwood H.S. (Chicago, Illinois) - Offered on 07/27/2023 Daniah Trammell, 6'1 Forward, Winton Woods H.S. (Cincinnati, Ohio) - Offered on 07/11/2023 2026 Blossom Wallace, 6'1 Wing/Forward, Pickerington Central H.S. (Pickerington, Ohio) - Offered on 04/18/2023 Katie Fox, 5'10 Guard, Lakota West H.S. (West Chester, Ohio) - Offered on 05/03/2023 Brooklyn Hall, 6'0 Guard/Forward, Western Reserve Academy (Hudson, Ohio) - Offered on 05/04/2023 (Freshman year was at Wayne H.S. in Huber Hts, OH) Kayla Stidham, 6'0 Guard, Hamilton Southeastern H.S. (Fishers, Indiana) - Offered on 06/19/2023 Anna Habra, 5'7 Guard/Forward, Mason H.S. (Mason, Ohio) - Visited on 06/27/2023 Kiera Healy, 6'0 Forward/Center, Dayton Carroll H.S. (Dayton, Ohio) - Offered on 07/11/2023 Kamrah Banks, 5'7 Point Guard, Decatur Central H.S. (Indianapolis, Indiana) - Offered on 07/11/2023 Kyrin Lile, 6'1 Forward, Elkhorn H.S. (Elkhorn, Wisconsin) - Offered on 07/13/2023 Emily McDonald, 5'10 Point Guard, St. Mary's H.S. (Lancaster, New York) - Offered on 7/14/2023 Joslyn Bricker, 5'8 Point Guard, Warsaw H.S. (Warsaw, Indiana) - Offered on 07/18/2023 2027 Cecelia Arico, 5'9 Guard, ???? H.S. (???, Michigan) - Offered on 07/14/2023 (Michigan WBB head coach's daughter) Tatiana Mason, 5'10 Guard, ??? H.S. (Cleveland, Ohio) - Offered on 07/11/2023 2028 Erin Thomas, 5'11 Guard, Princeton H.S. (Cincinnati, Ohio) - Offered on 07/11/2023

I was hoping for Paige Kohler, but I forgot we have two point guards in this 2023 class already. Kohler reminds me of a shorter version of Ohio State's Jacy Sheldon for anyone that watched the NCAAW Tournament this year.

I'll be interested to see who gets brought in for that. Hoping for a specific recruit, but that point guard will have plenty of options right now. Akron will most likely be in the mix (if still looking for a point guard when that recruit ultimately decides where to commit). EDIT - There are two point guards coming in from the 2023 H.S. recruits. It doesn't look like any of them decommitted, but I could be wrong. Dacia Lewandowski Leila Jones Olivia Brown

Already working on building relationships with the 2026 class. Below is a 6'1 wing from Pickerington Central H.S. I'm thinking about maybe starting a recruiting thread for the 2024 and later offers/commitments for the WBB program to organize the years on some of these offers/commitments after the dust settles this off season (unless anyone else wants to start one up in recruiting thread, feel free to do so).

Here's the Twitter account for the site with links to other areas of the site

Once the coaching changes & transfer portal calms down, this site will have a scholarship chart for every D1 women's basketball program. Right now, it got ripped down to a minimum with all the changes. It's the best centralized site for college women's basketball in my opinion. It says it can't be found right now, but once it gets uploaded, this should be the link to Akron's scholarship and recruiting news. https://wbbblog.com/akron-womens-basketball-recruiting/

“Former assistant coach Wyatt Foust left the program for another coaching opportunity,” a UB Athletics spokesperson said. “He was a primary contact for those student-athletes during their recruiting process and with his departure they had [a] change of heart and requested their release which was granted.” Not sure how normal it is for it to take so long, but I know for a fact that at least two of those five requested their release over 25 days ago and didn't get approved until last week. NCAA finally got to it Friday/today.

An Olmsted Falls senior has decommitted from Buffalo. One of five Buffalo H.S. recruits to decommit. Apparently, Buffalo had a 100% assistant coach turnover rate after the head coach's first season.

I'd rather have the new head coach use this time to talk to the remaining players on the roster, work on recruiting HS,JUCO, and Transfer Portal, and getting his staff put together instead of having a press conference right away that can wait.

Did the players like Coach Jackson? Of course, or they most likely wouldn't have been here this past season with the way the transfer portal has been the past couple seasons. As for the timing, it's not like Guthrie let her go with any seasons left on her contract. He just simply said when her contract was up, it wasn't getting renewed. The personal situation with Coach Jackson was of course bad timing, but Guthrie can't let that get in the way if he believes that the program needs a change. I had to look at this from a different perspective because I know a ton of high school girls basketball coaches and have been on the sidelines for several years. I like Coach Jackson and hope she lands somewhere as an assistant coach and gets another head coaching opportunity again, but I had to look at this objectively. For those saying not renewing Coach Jackson was the wrong move, if a head coach of a men's basketball program would have a record of 55-56 through four seasons (with these conference seeds and tournament results below) and the 5th season went 17-13 overall (#6 seed in conference with a quarterfinal loss by 24 points), would anyone be upset if the AD didn't renew the contract for the men's coach? Year 1 - #8 seed and lost to #9 seed in First Round Year 2 - #8 seed and lost to #9 seed in First Round Year 3 - Did not qualify for conference tournament, Finished 11th in conference play (only top 8 in tourney) Year 4 - #3 seed, beat #6 seed in quarterfinals, lost to #2 seed by 39 points in semifinals. Expectations should be a part of every program, and it's evident here that Guthrie has high expectations for his programs. Even though I do like Coach Jackson the person, I have expected more out of her and the rest of the staff and have been disappointed most seasons, especially in conference play. I had to look at this objectively, and concluded I'm not sure how many programs would be content with those results above. If this was Groce, I'm sure plenty of people would be saying that we needed a change on the men's side after Year 3.

I'm not sure (and we won't know), but if I had to guess, Gensler was probably above Schaben. Gensler hiring made more sense. Schaben rumor might have been more about what's going on at Iowa State right now than it was being seriously considered for the Akron opening.

I'm mad at myself for picking the wrong Illinois assistant as a candidate 😂 Get used to the term "EGB" going forward.

1:35:18 into video for Gensler's interview.

My thoughts too. Still doesn't fit the other hires under Guthrie so it makes me curious what made him stand out from those with HC experience.

Coach Gensler's bio on Illinois's website https://fightingillini.com/sports/womens-basketball/roster/coaches/ryan-gensler/1696

It left me scratching my head as well (just doesn't fit with Guthrie's hiring history so far), but that Twitter account has been right a lot so far this off season with coaching moves which is why I posted it assuming it was just needing to finalize. Makes more sense no decision has been made yet.

That's why this hire was so unexpected to me. Every head coaching hire so far under Guthrie was someone with head coaching experience, regardless of level (which is why I suggested Stephens, Pickens, and Hans).

The timing of the Iowa State transfers along with this hire is interesting. Here is a tweet with a reply that makes me hopeful.

More insight into Coach Schaben and the staff at Iowa State. I'm still not sure how I feel about this hire, but I'll keep an open mind and give her, her staff, and players time to see if it will work. This didn't fit the parameters that I thought would be with the next hire and frankly, it doesn't really fit with the hires Guthrie have made in other sports either. Odd choice and part of me wonders if she's out the door if Toledo and/or Iowa State has a head coaching opening.

This was one I wasn't expecting. Coach Schaben has been at Iowa State for so long under the head coach there. Her Twitter handle is even "@LadyCyclones" and bio reads "Love Coaching at Iowa State". I put her in the same category as above with Moren/Wierzba, Auriemma/Dailey, and Groce/Ford that I didn't think it was a possibility. It is interesting timing as practically the entire Iowa State team is in the transfer portal already.