Well Title IX is very much involved in this issue because it drastically increased the number of athletic scholarships available to women athletes at the college level. This opportunity was not lost on many foreign woman athletes who, understandably, wanted an esssentially free education in the US if they could get it. If they played great tennis they most likely could. Enter Anton Rudjuk, an opportunistic Russian (yes, the Russians again) who runs a “consulting office” where a foreign tennis player can pay US$1500+/- for him to help them find a US tennis scholarship. He has done this for 600 foreign players thus far in his business. Now this is not illegal in any sense and he is helping women in the process, but it certainly was not the intent of Title IX to allow “European woman take athletic scholarships from American woman tennis players” said Geoff MacDonald, head women’s tennis coach at Vanderbilt. So, again I say no ban, but limits. UCSB simply over the top on this. BWC should step in and stop this.
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Yes, Morgan is very intelligent and mature beyond her years. I feel very lucky to have had the opportunity to see her play and to develop into the great college player that she has become. I think that Jen and Jim are both great coaches with much different styles and approaches, but both have shown that what they both do works very well. If jim could get that big Croatian player (a long shot) we will be a very improved team, and that is the type of player he likes. Smart, aggressive and can play defense. Keep your collective fingers crossed.

One of our more local guys could go in and ask the person behind the bar what’s going on? They would probably know given their jobs on the line.

Title IX. Some parent of a US player just might sue. Stranger thing have happened.

Yes, SB has one Russian born girl from Chicago. So she is probably a US citizen, but the rest are are all Eastern European girls, +1 Canadian, etc. Look, this is very hard. They are all great women and I support them, but Title IX says american women cannot be discriminate against in acccess to athletics. This effectively is discrimination against american women in colligiate sports. Footnote: UCLA has no foreign born girls; but most of their team comes from Laurel Springs School in Florida, which is basically the top HS tennis academy for girls in FL. Ironically, next door Miami is 60% foreign players. So if not the BW, maybe the State of California should step in. California girls tennis players and their parents shoul be rightfully very upset about this situation.

Well we lost to Fresno 4-12 this week. Team does very well in the English events and not so well in the western style. This is a bit strange as our head coach is a former champion western event rider. I attribute that to this being our first year and our club tram probably was mostly English and coach had little time to recruit western. So this bodes very well for the Aggies. Coach W will no doubt now recruit some outstanding western riders and build on the English events. I see this team eventually as a top ranked team nationally. Will take some time.

But to lose 3 of 5 very strong starters and then as a team turn it around after a half dozen games and hen to go almost undefeated since says something special is going on with this team and Coach Jen. They just find a way to win even if things aren’t going for them as was the case last night. Only great team chemistry and great coaching can make this happen. Not to complain, but the away announcers in this league have little or nothing good to say about this team, except an often lame whine that “we have no answer for Morgan”. Sad.

I am surprised that Underwood is not seeing a lot more time. His JC stats were good I thought. Fuller and Squires probably just need some seasoning.

A question or two. Are Underwood, Fuller and Squires redshirting? I don’t see them in any games.

Just finished the rerun. The Ags were very good on defense. Shot poorly. Got great stuff from Morgan. Won the game. Played very well overall. Good teams fight their way thru bad shooting to win. This team is on the cusp of being the best Aggie woman’s basketball team ever. And doing this after losing 3 of 5 starters is very impressive. I am a sentimental old father of daughters so when I see the Eaton twins on the court together playing so well- its an emotional thing for me. If I were the Eaton parents I would be living a dream.

Beautiful Scottish Lass! Agree with all the above, plus SHE ACTUALLY GETS OFFENSIVE REBOUNDS!!! Great addition for Jen. This recruiting class is getting very strong indeed. Scots are a tough breed, beautiful and smart. Yes, I am part Scot but not very biased. . . I think. . . . Oh well tried.

I am now starting to feel sorry for Fresno. Not for the Bulldog Gang, but for getting Tumey. What is it with this guy? He has never done anything of any distinction for anyone? I recall when the UC was politically pressured to build a new campus in the San Joaquin Valley. The Bee wanted Fresno. UC said no way with that one. We got UC Merced which is actually very good. Locals say: do not go out at night in the downtown Fresno area. They do not care about any statues which have no protective features. So Tumey in Fresno? Not going to happen. Piedmont a lot nicer.

Great news on the Kat! She will be amazing and will provide the emotional pressure we need to put on UCI.

Twin Peaks (the Eatons) are on the top of their game. Look out, these girls are on fire and no one apparently can even begin to stop them.

A friend went to a game there a few years back and was in the ticket line. Two big guys showed up behind him and he said “you guys must have played some ball back in the day.” They replied “no, we just got out of prison and were meeting some of our old friends here at the game”. Well, it was better than them going to a shooting range for fun, but friend was not real comfortable with these guys around. He was not a Fresno fan either.

Interesting note that Hawaii played without their leading scorer Mekena Woodfolk. She has quit the team. Reason: she’s pregnant. Which is actually a pretty good reason. Hopefully she can come back next season. She’s very good!

You gotta love those Eaton twins! If the Eaton parents aren’t having a glass of great Washington State wine tonight for their great kids I don’t know what else to say. Great win by the Eaton twins and others!

Great interview! What was it done for? What company does Brock work for? Be nice to have some background on it. Hawk really is kind of an amazing and inspirational guy and we are so lucky to have him as our coach.

DrMike, did Larry ever pinch your roommates butt? Great burgers and salads, but a really bad bad guy in terms of sexual predation on his workers. Is the Berkeley place still there?

The Grad at the old Whole Foods site? Make it happen!