Blue Verbals

#2 posting 9.12.2007
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BLUE VERBALS
Destinee Blue, Milwaukee Vincent, has made a verbal to Cleveland State. The 6-4 center averaged 14.1 ppg for the 24-1 D1 Wisconsin state champions last season. She started her high school career at Milwaukee Riverside before transferring. Blue is the 7th overall player from the 2008 Wisconsin high school class to verbal and the 3rd to verbal a D1 school.

Also in the news & notes, with the verbals beginning halfway down, is Kelsey Sperka's verbal to Evansville which I had already posted. From the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.
In case you missed it, late last night Courtney Kranz of Visitation made a verbal to Northern Colorado.

Also of note is the outlook for Maryland recruiting in the Baltimore Sun.

TRANSFER ISSUES
Here are a few more players that started at D1 and then moved on...
Venessa Ostergaard of Eastview from Bradley to UM Duluth
Mari Korton of Andover from Bradley to MN State Mankato
Teresa Parker on Pequot Lakes from Southern Illinois to MN State Mankato
Ashley Samuelson of Underwood from Colorado State to North Dakota State
Taryn Zang of Simley was at Missouri State.
In my research the numbers (from the 2004-05 season) show that there were 1137 freshman players at the D1 level. There were 891 seniors. However that 22% attrition rate is not the full picture considering the JUCO bump in the Junior year. The numbers were 1137-972-991-891. The numbers at D2 were 946-795-878-718. Not every kid that verbals or signs will finish out at that school.
Why does this happen? Some of it is playing time; Some is a change in the coaching staff; Some have career ending injuries or other medical issues; Some fall victim to grades; some lose interest/passion for the game; some get homesick---the boomerangs; and some overreach finding out D1 is too much work or that there skill level is not where it needs to be; there are probably hundreds of more reasons, but these are right up there.

COACHING NEWS
Head women's basketball coach Shauna Green is leaving Loras to be an assistant at Providence. Loras will be looking for a coach with about one month left before practice starts. From the Dubuque Times Herald.

SCHEDULE
The Marquette Tribune looks at the upcoming home schedule for the Golden Eagles.

GOPHER RADIO
Corbu Stathes is the new voice of Gopher Women's Basketball. He has worked with Clear Channel in Colorado.

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