2024-2025 Notre Dame Women's Basketball

Irish du Nord

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Here's who I target first:
From Duluth, go 'Toppers!

Third highest rated player on 247's preliminary portal rankings behind Miles and Ta'Niya Latson.

The GT backcourt is also in the portal, any chance we were recruiting them during the Allstate commercial?
 

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Where's the extra money going to come from for these much higher salaries? While the Cailtlin Clark effect is real, its not "everyone gets triple the salary" real. According to many reports, they still stand to LOSE money in 2024 despite all the new interest.
I mean, it might be triple the salary. They are more than tripling the league wide media revenue, plus seeing an increase in gate revenue and sponsorship.

As for losing money, that's just standard practice for sports teams outside of the NFL. Just the other day there was the quote from Mark Cuban about how he lost millions every year he ran the Mavericks. Good owners realize that you aren't actually losing money, but investing to increase the much more lucrative capital gain on the back end.
 

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If we can't field a team is Niele in danger? There's only so much you can blame on NIL. This reeks of players not having confidence in their coaching staff.
 

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This tweet makes some sense. Evidently in the portal with a no contact tag.

 

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I am waiting for some whistling-by-the-graveyard person to adamantly tell us that the coaching staff had nothing to do with this implosion. And since I can't conceive in a universe where Mikayla had either the personality or the power to contribute to such a disaster, that shrinks the focus down to two persons. Yes, I don't know the story, and, yes, I don't ever want bad things for one of my two favorite teams and my university, ... but it's hard to invent some scenario which says: nothing bad has happened here. ....... really am hating this.
 

Irish#1

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I am waiting for some whistling-by-the-graveyard person to adamantly tell us that the coaching staff had nothing to do with this implosion. And since I can't conceive in a universe where Mikayla had either the personality or the power to contribute to such a disaster, that shrinks the focus down to two persons. Yes, I don't know the story, and, yes, I don't ever want bad things for one of my two favorite teams and my university, ... but it's hard to invent some scenario which says: nothing bad has happened here. ....... really am hating this.
It's really troubling, especially for a storied program.
 

Irish du Nord

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One doubts she'd come but Kneepkens is REALLY good.
On the other hand, she is high academic (Big 12 Scholar of the year), majoring in Health and Kinesiology (ND College of Science has to entice), and is a committed Catholic who chose Utah in part due to their active Newman Center. If you like the Utah Newman Center, you're going to love ND Campus Ministry.

Obviously other factors matter but if I'm a shooter of her caliber, playing the Citron role with Hidalgo at the wheel would be intriguing.
 

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In theory, the staff is going to need to bring in 6-8 players to fill out the roster. Crazy. We’ll see if they can do it.
 

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Well the staff shouldn't have been sitting on their ass and only bringing in two girls the last two years.
 

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This team is cooked. The portal like I have said numerous times is going to ruin college sports.
 
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