Razorback Women’s Basketball

[Thin Red Swine]

Back to their obliterated ways.

30-point home loss against Tennessee. Outrebounded by 17 and Tennessee had 28 more shot attempts.



Maryland got back in the win column at Wisconsin after its first loss to #1 USC last week. No Legs action to report, she was out with an illness.

[HughJasole]

64-98
56-90
59-58
63-93

Which of these is not like the other?

[Rick B.]

Scott sure seems to get injured a lot. Great player when she's healthy.

She's also a prima donna with an overbearing family who believes that she does not have to practice and gets to start every game regardless.  And play as many minutes as she wants and come out of the game whenever she wanted.  Antithesis of team player.

[Gambler]

She's also a prima donna with an overbearing family who believes that she does not have to practice and gets to start every game regardless.  And play as many minutes as she wants and come out of the game whenever she wanted.  Antithesis of team player.

Holy shit. Didn't know all that was going on. That not having to practice shit shouldn't fly with any coach.

[BleedinRed]

Who is Scott?

[Usafhawg]

Who is Scott?

I'm assuming Taliah - at Auburn now.

[Barton Fink]

Correct

[Gambler]

I'm assuming Taliah - at Auburn now.

Averaging 20 a game.

[Thin Red Swine]

Another squeaker, 94-62 at home against Alabama. Now 8-12, 1-4 to stay within one game of the men's team in the race for futility.

I have no idea how they got to 62. Higginbottom scored only 5 points. 

[Barton Fink]

Damn, who scored?

[Gambler]

Damn, who scored?

Them mostly.

[Barton Fink]

Common theme

[Thin Red Swine]

Kiki Smith had 23 and a couple of others just barely got into double digits. After Higgy nobody else scored more than 3.

[Thin Red Swine]

PSA / Legs Alert

Maryland is playing Texas on Fox right now. Saylor is back in the starting lineup.


EDIT: They currently are looking like Saylor's former team, down 26-8 in the first quarter.

Now 28-12 at the end of the first quarter. I forgot Vic Schaefer is the head coach of the Whorns.

[Thin Red Swine]

Now 48-18 at halftime.

Ouch.

[buff2.0]

Don't call it a comeback...

[Thin Red Swine]

Don't call it a comeback...

Yeah, no such thing. 89-51 final, basically as bad as Texas beat Arkansas.

Maryland really hadn't played anyone except USC. They flat out got embarrassed in this one.

The Legs were on point, though. 

[Rick B.]

Holy shit. Didn't know all that was going on. That not having to practice shit shouldn't fly with any coach.

Samara was a cancer in the locker room too.  Also not a team player.  The last 2 years, there was nothing but turmoil.  Mike did what he could do to tamp that down but it's a catch 22.  Bench your best players for being mean girls and not take coaching, then you lose the game.  Or you play the mean girls and prima donnas and give them what they want, maybe you win but you really LOSE in the long run. I can't even count the number of times 2 years ago that Chrissy Carr was WIDE OPEN on the wing for a 3 and Spencer would bring the ball up and look at Crissy and look away and pass to someone else.  It was pure jealousy and the cliques on the team didn't like Carr. 

AND, the NIL for WBB at the U of A is a mere pittance of what places like LSU, TN, etc have.  Jersey was a center in body type but wanted to be a 3 point shooter. Mike tried to get her to play low. She tried but still kept that point guard mentality.  (Similar to Z on the men's team).  She got close to a 8x increase in pay transferring to LSU. And Kim has her playing more of a center's role.  But, she's only averaging 6 pts a game and 15 min a game but man, she's getting paid. So, because of this discrepancy in NIL, Mike has to go international to get players because they're not used to getting high 5 figure to 6 figure incomes. Same happened with Samara Spencer. She got a huge hike in salary to go to Tennessee. Saylor (Legs as y'all call her) left for two reasons:  1.  More money and 2. She was homesick. Everyone rags and rails on Mike and believe me, I'm nowhere near HAPPY about 8-12 and 1-4 in the SEC and getting blown out every game but what else can Mike do?  It is what it is in this day and age.  Mike may be on his last year. Only Hunter knows.  But Hunter also knows the situation that Mike is in.  And knows he's doing the best with the cards he's been dealt.  Ticket sales are up every year the last 5 years.  Season tix are up.  Attendance had increased every year til this year and we all know why.  For this program, Hunter may accept those things over winning conference titles.  If they continue on their current course and finish with 4 maybe 5 wins in the SEC, who knows what might happen?

Thing is, and this only goes for WBB, you get rid of Mike, who do you think will come in here with the NIL situation like it is for WBB?  The NIL is not much better for other women's sports either.

Okay...off my soapbox.  Carry on.

[Cornhogio]

Samara was a cancer in the locker room too.  Also not a team player.  The last 2 years, there was nothing but turmoil.  Mike did what he could do to tamp that down but it's a catch 22.  Bench your best players for being mean girls and not take coaching, then you lose the game.  Or you play the mean girls and prima donnas and give them what they want, maybe you win but you really LOSE in the long run. I can't even count the number of times 2 years ago that Chrissy Carr was WIDE OPEN on the wing for a 3 and Spencer would bring the ball up and look at Crissy and look away and pass to someone else.  It was pure jealousy and the cliques on the team didn't like Carr. 

AND, the NIL for WBB at the U of A is a mere pittance of what places like LSU, TN, etc have.  Jersey was a center in body type but wanted to be a 3 point shooter. Mike tried to get her to play low. She tried but still kept that point guard mentality.  (Similar to Z on the men's team).  She got close to a 8x increase in pay transferring to LSU. And Kim has her playing more of a center's role.  But, she's only averaging 6 pts a game and 15 min a game but man, she's getting paid. So, because of this discrepancy in NIL, Mike has to go international to get players because they're not used to getting high 5 figure to 6 figure incomes. Same happened with Samara Spencer. She got a huge hike in salary to go to Tennessee. Saylor (Legs as y'all call her) left for two reasons:  1.  More money and 2. She was homesick. Everyone rags and rails on Mike and believe me, I'm nowhere near HAPPY about 8-12 and 1-4 in the SEC and getting blown out every game but what else can Mike do?  It is what it is in this day and age.  Mike may be on his last year. Only Hunter knows.  But Hunter also knows the situation that Mike is in.  And knows he's doing the best with the cards he's been dealt.  Ticket sales are up every year the last 5 years.  Season tix are up.  Attendance had increased every year til this year and we all know why.  For this program, Hunter may accept those things over winning conference titles.  If they continue on their current course and finish with 4 maybe 5 wins in the SEC, who knows what might happen?

Thing is, and this only goes for WBB, you get rid of Mike, who do you think will come in here with the NIL situation like it is for WBB?  The NIL is not much better for other women's sports either.

Okay...off my soapbox.  Carry on.

Thanks for sharing all that.

[Rick B.]

Thanks for sharing all that.

I'm not going to lie...I'm too close to the team and Mike is a friend.  I want him here forever BUT I also want to win.  There are just a bunch of things that fans don't see while watching at home or looking at box scores.  And I'm not saying that to toot a horn or act like I'm some big insider or something.  When you go to every game and go to Mike's chalk talks before the game and know half the team, you see and hear stuff that other fans don't. Things aren't always what they seem.  Same goes for the baseball team but I digress.  There were injuries that I knew about the last 2-3 years that were never made public until long after the season was over and sometimes, not at all.  And yet these guys played through them.  And Dave's not going to bench someone who's given their heart and soul to the team if they're only playing at 80% of their max due to injuries.