Danni Williams to A&M

If you look at the time line, the posts on this board make perfect sense. We had a chance to recruit Danni, a very good player who was recruited by some top 5 programs. Instead, we dropped her to go after Penzo and Williams, who were not highly ranked or recruited. Why that happened is puzzling. Danni liked OU, Norman was fairly close to their home which, according to her Dad was important, and she liked the coaching staff, etc. Even if we don't need a guard at a particular time, and if we have a chance to sign a really good guard (one who most likely will be a starter) you have to go after them. There is a lot to be said about the old saying, "you sign the best player available". Can you image Geno not going after Maya Moore because he already had someone on the roster who could play small forward? That would make about as much sense as Sherri not going after Courtney Paris because she already had a center who could play.

As I said, if Danni turns out to be a mediocre player, it won't matter that she wasn't recruited.

It's very easy to criticize people who make decisions when you don't have all the facts, especially if you are always looking for something to criticize. Recruiting is like an iceberg. The part that we know about is what sticks up out of the water. Unfortunately, that fact doesn't stop people from criticizing.

Sometimes players are missevaluated. Sometimes, there is a good reason a school stops recruiting a player. 99% of the time, we don't know that reason, which is as it should be.
 
It's very easy to criticize people who make decisions when you don't have all the facts, especially if you are always looking for something to criticize. Recruiting is like an iceberg. The part that we know about is what sticks up out of the water. Unfortunately, that fact doesn't stop people from criticizing.

Sometimes players are missevaluated. Sometimes, there is a good reason a school stops recruiting a player. 99% of the time, we don't know that reason, which is as it should be.

You bet, some recruiting evaluations are wrong and just about every coach misses on a few players. Sherri has missed too.
 
Sherri didn't notice Penzo when she was watching Dungee at the U-16 games? The coach of the U-16 team, DRobs coach, didn't mention her to Sherri? While watching Cox, Samuelson, Mulkey, and Dungee, Sherri didn't see Penzo? Seems unlikely.
 
Acquaintance with a HS senior daughter applying to several tier one schools (not sports related.) Kept her parents up to date on the process, they thought. She missed a deadline for something she was supposed to submit. Did she tell her parents she had dropped the ball and screwed up? No she didn't. She told them that she had not heard back from that school so she was dropping them from her list.

She has a nice offer now but not from that school.

Unless dad reads every text, listens in on every phone call, opens every piece of corespondense, and is present for every face to face, he may not know everything.

Did she lie? She only lied by omission. Would he have lied if he said the school stopped communicating? No.

She did come clean after the fact and will accept her other offer.

Not saying this is what happened with any recruit but it did happen this summer.
 
As someone who lives in New Mexico, and used to live not far from Clovis, I'm mainly glad she didn't go to Texas Tech. A lot of people in central New Mexico assume that everyone east of the Sandias is dying to be a Sand Aggie. Cisti Greenwalt went there out of high school, but another star player from Clovis went to Tech and then transferred to UNM (Anteshia Brown) and has thrived.
 
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