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MrFantastic! OP
Jul 18, 2024 at 07:04 PM ET
Dunbar to hoos
Been friends with kitchen on social media for a bit . Also there coach announced upcoming commit three weeks ago. It was Dunbar . VT simply not high on her as they are others. ** Edited by MrFantastic! at 7/18/2024, 7:10:32 PM

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DGHOKIE DGHOKIE
No sour grapes, didn’t think she would go with the obvious best choice.
Might turn out to be a very good player, but not a position of need and hate to lose to hoos. If she wasn’t good enough for us Duffy wouldn’t have offered
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Hokiekid1
Just because a player reports an offer
It doesn’t mean the staff is pushing for the player, or that it’s even committable. VT is in a very good spot for a bunch of guards and wings that are more than likely higher on VT’s board (I’ve listed those I’m aware of below). Divine Bourrage- 5 Star 5’10 G Caliyah DeVillasee- 4 star 5’7” PG Destiny Lunan- 4 Star 5’9” PG Harissoum Coulibaly- 5’10” G Agot Makeer- 5 star 6’1” W Nyla Brooks- 5 star 6’1” W Kaelyn Carroll- 5 Star 6’2” W Zhen Craft- 4 Star 6’2” W/F Maddie Parrish- 4 Star 6’0” W
DGHOKIE DGHOKIE
Then why offer?
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NokieHokie
To appease delusional fans?
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ancient alien 2018
Nokie!! Here?? On this Board?? Absolutely NOT! No way!! :>)
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NokieHokie
People I follow bring me over here. :)
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RJHokie
No loss here, imo.
hokie77 hokie77
Would think if Duffy offered her a scholly, losing her to UVa is a loss.
1977hokie 1977hokie
Memo to CMD
We don’t like losing to UVa
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Hokie83
Not all offers are equal
Its not a loss in VT's eyes and I wish her Good Luck except against VT
hokie77 hokie77
Assume you're implying VT offer was as walk-on for 2024? Or for 2025 only?
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Hokie83
Not a walk on offer...
An Offer that was not pushed for a Commitment Type of Offer, we really have other needs other than Dunbar and in staff's eyes better prospects to fill those needs
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VT One
All of what you said being true, if it were me, I would have offered a kid
so talented, and so close to home, as soon as I got to Tech. Women’s basketball has 15 scholarships. Plenty of room to add a local star. Dunbar, a lifelong Hokie fan, who apparently willing to redshirt, might just turn out to be very good. We all know that the roster may have different needs as early as next year because of the portal. Perplexing to me if we didn’t pursue her aggressively.
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NokieHokie
You make her sound like the Cole Beck of WBB. How did that work out for FB?
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VT One
How did Stephen Curry work out? You never know, you know?
Stork Stork
Are you saying she’s a Curry quality player? We’ll be watching.
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VT One
You know I didn’t mean that. And honestly, had Curry come to Tech, I doubt
we would know him in the way we know him now. He was a big fish in a little pond at Davidson and the rest is history.
King of Hokies King of Hokies
So your advice is that coaches, against their better judgement, should add
any and all VT player's progeny plus players who grew up within 30 miles of VT? There aren't enough roster spots by a factor of 100. And it's a dumb premise anyway that coaches should add players they don't think will upgrade the roster.
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VT One
That’s not my premise. My premise is if a player within 30 miles of our
campus has her offer list, and I have 15 scholarships, I would likely take a chance on her. We all know in today’s environment if she didn’t work out, she would be gone on a year or two. If she becomes all ACC, the decision will be lamented on this board for a while.
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ancient alien 2018
LOL I watched her play. She's a really good player against the YMCA-type
talent she played against. She'll probably never see the court at hooville much, if ever. Radford would have been a good potential landing site for her.
Stork Stork
The SWVa guys think any and everyone from that neck of the woods must be
Offered.
King of Hokies King of Hokies
Yep. 757 guys seem to as well
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NokieHokie
Haha you beat me to it!
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NokieHokie
It's funny that this is the same guy who will never question Stiney, but he
has no problem questioning these other coaching decisions.
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VT One
I would have used scholarship #15 for a potential local star over giving it
to my daughter- who was never going to play. I support Coach Duffy 100% and she has her own plan. I simply posted what I would have done. If I were speculating about the men’s team, and there was a similar kid available, I would not have made the same decision. 15 scholarships hardly ever get used. That is the difference.
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NokieHokie
That implies Steph Curry would've worked out here. Which is not a given.
Rev.Zeke Vodka Rev.Zeke Vodka
Assuming that Tech is her dream school…
And I don’t know that personally to be a fact but several people have alluded that to be the case so let’s assume that is true. If Tech was her dream school AND she was a top tier, priority recruit for Coach Duffy, then she would have selected Virginia Tech.
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Coach4jesus
Maybe...
I'm going to say something I may have heard. How a recruiting visit goes can play a big role on where they go. ** Edited by Coach4jesus at 7/19/2024, 7:16:31 PM
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VT One
Sounds logical. Sounds like she was not high priority, and I can inderstand
that. I guess that’s why she picked UVA.
Rev.Zeke Vodka Rev.Zeke Vodka
I suspect that is how it played out..
Coach Duffy liked her but she wasn’t at the top of the list and there were others the staff liked better. She might have even wanted the decision date to have been in September rather than yesterday so she could get more clarity with other prospects. But you can’t take your # 5 (theoretically) prospect when numbers 1-4 are still in play. I would have been greatly disappointed if it had played out that way.
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VT One
Very fair points- that I don’t enough about to consider. I was more focused
on the optics of the hometown player and 15 scholarships. And our biggest rival getting her commitment.
DGHOKIE DGHOKIE
I hope she reels in 1, 2, 3 0r 4 or any combo thereof
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Hokie PE
Gee Rev, that makes too much sense!
Stork Stork
Likely not as talented as you neighbors think she is.
Sorry
King of Hokies King of Hokies
Is that "local star" going to be happy if she is stuck at #13 - #15 on the
roster? Duffy is trying to upgrade every position on the roster, not add locals to ride pine so somehow the weird NRV-obsessive fan can be happy.
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RJHokie
Good points!
hokie77 hokie77
Thanks 83 for the explanation. Hope CMD gets most of her top choices.
Seems to be targeting lots of prospects in her old stomping grounds in the midwest.
1977hokie 1977hokie
I foresee two bus loads
Of screaming classmates coming to Cassell to watch her drop 30 on us (joking I hope )
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Hokie83
Cool
hokiepro hokiepro
I hope you’re right but
I’m afraid this one could haunt us
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RJHokie
Doubt it.
I don’t believe we aggressively recruited her. But we shall see.
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MrFantastic! OP
Possibly
But let’s see whom we get !
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UpperQuad
Bonus points for proper use of "whom"
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MrFantastic! OP
32.3333 pts for u
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hokietom87
Still would rather she picked wake
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Hokie83
agree