Wakeforest22890
Snowpom
The wake women haven’t made the tournament in my lifetime. How is this program so damn terrible.
I wish the women's team would play in either Reynolds (or whatever it's called now, assuming it still exists) or better yet the Coliseum annex. Those would be better venues. I understand that they prefer to play in LJVM, but as you say it cannot help recruiting.
Another game, another loss this time to ND by 30. Looks like more injuries as well as Sharp has missed a few games
With full scholarships, at a top 25 university, that would otherwise cost around $65,000, in a sport that really doesn't have any financial prospects after graduation, how can we not be competitive. I can understand baseball struggling when you only have about 12 scholarships for around 30 players and you're competing with state schools that don't cost as much, but not when you can get a full ride. ND, Stanford, Duke, Northwestern, Rice all have good women's teams. Only Vandy sucks.
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With full scholarships, at a top 25 university, that would otherwise cost around $65,000, in a sport that really doesn't have any financial prospects after graduation, how can we not be competitive. I can understand baseball struggling when you only have about 12 scholarships for around 30 players and you're competing with state schools that don't cost as much, but not when you can get a full ride. ND, Stanford, Duke, Northwestern, Rice all have good women's teams. Only Vandy sucks.
Agree and would add that while Vandy may be down now they have had very strong (top 10) teams in the past. As a fully funded sport, there is no reason for WF to perpetually suck in women's basketball. Would be willing to bet that WF women's basketball is not only the only Power 6 program to not get an NCAA bid over the last 30 years, but WF also has the single worst winning percentage among Power 6 schools over that time. Really is unbelievable how long this program has completely sucked.
There has to be 3-4 smart girls each year that are also top 250 players that would take a $250,000 education in exchange for playing basketball. You would think it doesn't take a genius to sell that deal. You could be the Danny Manning of women's in game coaching and still win 70% of your games if you have a top 25 class every year.
Agree and would add that while Vandy may be down now they have had very strong (top 10) teams in the past. As a fully funded sport, there is no reason for WF to perpetually suck in women's basketball. Would be willing to bet that WF women's basketball is not only the only Power 6 program to not get an NCAA bid over the last 30 years, but WF also has the single worst winning percentage among Power 6 schools over that time. Really is unbelievable how long this program has completely sucked.