atlantasooner
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This message board has had some spirited discusssion on recruiting.
I've been very critical of Sherri's past recruiting (2011/2012,2013 classes).
However, with the 2014/2015/2016/2017 classes, we can now see a class over class improvement in recruiting.
It appears the rehiring of Pam DeCosta is paying off. It just took some time to take hold which makes sense since women's hoops recruiting is about a 3 or 4 year cycle.
2014 Class - Sherri aggressively re recruited McKenna Treece to give that class two bigs. And Sherri signed her best HS player since Manning in Gabi Ortiz.
2015 Class - Limited ship situation but Sherri signs a top 60 national athletic big who can run with all quickness added at guard. The ideal player for that one spot.
2016 Class - Dungee = SG/big time scorer top 30 player,
Mulkey = true center, top 30 player. Might be the ultimate half court offense weapon to help OU's offense when the break is not there. She appears to have a excellent mid range jumper.
Think how effective Marc Gasol is in the NBA.
Still have one or two more ships to go
2017 Class = For now its just Llanusa, but it's early (McKenna's 6-5 sister is a 2017 player for instance)
big class at least 5.
In 2016/7, Sherri will have 4 talented bigs to main the PF/C spots. The best height/talent depth she's had since CP/AP,AT, and Abi Olajuwon were on campus.
In addition, in 2016 Sherri will have a deep and talented guard/wing lineup.
Mulkey also is a big name national name in recruiting and Sherri now gets to use that name in recruiting for 2016/2017 for the next 12 months at least. Let's face it
Mulkey is the kind of player that Baylor has been signing, not OU.
Lauren Cox for instance now knows she won't have to play center at OU. Lauren
plays a lot of summer ball with Mulkey. Other top players are competing against her.
Right now, she's a huge OU hoops billboard.
Other big time players in both classes will see OU has elite players coming in.
It's a reputation thing and it can increase in time.
So it's a GREAT job the last 18 months turning things around in recruiting by Sherri
and her assistants.
We know Sherri can develop talent and team chemistry. We know that with better
talent Sherri can take teams to the Final Four.
One last note, I do wish Sherri had a twitter account. Every time OU gets a football verbal, Bob tweets "Boomer, (area code of the player)". It's a nice legal way to broadcast success over social media. And the fan base on twitter goes crazy.
Would be nice to see Sherri adopt that practice. As you can see in the other thread, the OU players were all over twitter congratulating Mulkey.
Obviously the WBB twitter handle leaked the news effectively, it was the best job of using twitter
in recruiting by the WBB twitter handle to date.
Social media = massive deal in recruiting. And it's not changing.
I've been very critical of Sherri's past recruiting (2011/2012,2013 classes).
However, with the 2014/2015/2016/2017 classes, we can now see a class over class improvement in recruiting.
It appears the rehiring of Pam DeCosta is paying off. It just took some time to take hold which makes sense since women's hoops recruiting is about a 3 or 4 year cycle.
2014 Class - Sherri aggressively re recruited McKenna Treece to give that class two bigs. And Sherri signed her best HS player since Manning in Gabi Ortiz.
2015 Class - Limited ship situation but Sherri signs a top 60 national athletic big who can run with all quickness added at guard. The ideal player for that one spot.
2016 Class - Dungee = SG/big time scorer top 30 player,
Mulkey = true center, top 30 player. Might be the ultimate half court offense weapon to help OU's offense when the break is not there. She appears to have a excellent mid range jumper.
Think how effective Marc Gasol is in the NBA.
Still have one or two more ships to go
2017 Class = For now its just Llanusa, but it's early (McKenna's 6-5 sister is a 2017 player for instance)
big class at least 5.
In 2016/7, Sherri will have 4 talented bigs to main the PF/C spots. The best height/talent depth she's had since CP/AP,AT, and Abi Olajuwon were on campus.
In addition, in 2016 Sherri will have a deep and talented guard/wing lineup.
Mulkey also is a big name national name in recruiting and Sherri now gets to use that name in recruiting for 2016/2017 for the next 12 months at least. Let's face it
Mulkey is the kind of player that Baylor has been signing, not OU.
Lauren Cox for instance now knows she won't have to play center at OU. Lauren
plays a lot of summer ball with Mulkey. Other top players are competing against her.
Right now, she's a huge OU hoops billboard.
Other big time players in both classes will see OU has elite players coming in.
It's a reputation thing and it can increase in time.
So it's a GREAT job the last 18 months turning things around in recruiting by Sherri
and her assistants.
We know Sherri can develop talent and team chemistry. We know that with better
talent Sherri can take teams to the Final Four.
One last note, I do wish Sherri had a twitter account. Every time OU gets a football verbal, Bob tweets "Boomer, (area code of the player)". It's a nice legal way to broadcast success over social media. And the fan base on twitter goes crazy.
Would be nice to see Sherri adopt that practice. As you can see in the other thread, the OU players were all over twitter congratulating Mulkey.
Obviously the WBB twitter handle leaked the news effectively, it was the best job of using twitter
in recruiting by the WBB twitter handle to date.
Social media = massive deal in recruiting. And it's not changing.