Classy good bye by Les!

Obviously the new strategy in the league is to really be physical with Morgan and hope for the best. Twins need to come out and Take care of this which they are very capable of doing. Love those gals. . .

Z I have never been to a Aggie water polo or golf game in my life, yet many WBB games. To me your comparison is very faulty. I’m just one person; maybe your right, but I don’t think so. Jen Gross is a very special coach. You just better hope she sticks around because people are indeed taking a long look at her at this point in her very impressive career. Also, to compare the success of WBB with men’s baseball is, well, ridiculous. Enough said.

Jen deserves a raise and a contract extension. I don’t think we have ever had such a dominate athletic team in our very short D1 history until this coach came along to get it done. I have very good feelings about the BW tourenmant going in with these Aggie gals.

In defense of Les, his style is a very guard driven and opportunistic offensive system. Actually more NBA than college perhaps. BUT, and this is a big but, he really needs great players to pull this off. Hawkins, yes. Lamar, yes. Shorts, yes. Otherwise it just doesn’t get off the ground, thus we have this year to deal with. I do not know Jim Les, but I think he is on to something. How many outstanding 3 point shooting guards are there out there compared to 7’ footers? 100 to 1? 500 to 1? 7’ footers at this level are slow, and somewhat indifferent to defense unless they can block a shot. BWC 7’ footers are never going to be outstanding players. If they were they’d be in the Pac12. Les will come back if he can find some really great guards. I think he just might. IMHO

I think its a combination of all of them. I think its sort of an under the radar thing with tennis because the very top ranked teams- UCLA, Stanford, etc. have few foreign players, but they get the top US players and there are not a lot of them to go around. So it is the lower levels of tennis that see this happening. Apparently top DII is almost all foreign players. And they get the scholarships partially paid by US taxpayers. I think this is fine. Just put a reasonably limit on this- no ban. BTW both UCSB woman’s tennis coaches are, in fact, foreign born. Canada. South Africa. They are great coaches and I in no way disparage them. I actually believe they would support some limits. IMHO

Missed the game and cant get the replay. I guess due to it being a DH. I will wait it out. Hope the Aggie men come out focused and smart.

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.