2022 Transfer Season

Priscilla Williams started following recent incoming Texas volleyball transfer (from U of Kentucky) Madi Skinner on Instagram.

It seemed unusual to me at first since they play different sports. But, Madi did attend high school in Katy (Faith West Academy). Priscilla attended Katy Seven Lakes high school for a year or two before moving to Missouri. Both were class of 2020.

Could mean nothing; could mean something . . .
 
DFW_Horn said:
I’m a bit jaded so this might not be a jab but the timing of it and focus on facilities/NIL/gear raised an eyebrow slightly. I haven’t unfollowed her yet or I wouldn’t have seen it - nothing personal but I only follow current coaches, former/current players and commits.

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Edit: Guess this line of discussion should actually be in coaching carousel . . . apologies,

I recall her sharing tweets with a “similar vibe” shortly after hiring on with Texas, too. I think she’s being positive.

Here are three tweets she made within a couple of months of coming on board with Texas:





 
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Did you happen to see Ashley on IG live…spoke very poorly of Vic and coaching staff, it’s eye opening on the examples she spoke of. One take away is that when Rori came in everyone stopped investing in her.
 
LeoBenz74 said:
Did you happen to see Ashley on IG live…spoke very poorly of Vic and coaching staff, it’s eye opening on the examples she spoke of. One take away is that when Rori came in everyone stopped investing in her.
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It's **** like this that makes me think we will be seeing more moves like this:
Grambling State volleyball coach cuts every scholarship player from team - Sports Illustrated

Trayvean Scott, GSU’s athletic director, said in a statement that “just as the transfer portal empowers student-athletes, our coaches are also empowered to make the decisions they deem necessary to advance their programs.”
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I tend to agree with this quote.
 
LeoBenz74 said:
Did you happen to see Ashley on IG live…spoke very poorly of Vic and coaching staff, it’s eye opening on the examples she spoke of. One take away is that when Rori came in everyone stopped investing in her.
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Wait. They stopped investing in her and began to invest in a player that was even further down the bench than she was in Shay? Interesting.
 
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I had to go and watch the live b4 I commented and I’m say my piece then not think or give it anymore energy.

AC I disagree with how she handling it although I understand how the people close to her and herself feel like this is the best way. I feel it’s not fair for her to speak on anybody but herself. Humans are singular and I feel like all of this deeper within herself. Also this is why I be partly side eyeing this generation because there is no constant everything is ever flowing. I don’t have time to write a paper on the live but if it was a lawyer they would rip it to shreds in my opinion. Not even in a petty tone but I hope she gets invested into like she wants at TECH.
 
longhorn47 said:
Shay Holle is a completely different player than Ashley Chevalier. Apples and oranges.
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It's not apples and oranges. Is Shay not a player on the team? It would make more sense to also not invest in a player like Shay, who at the start of the season had less of an importance and was at the end of the bench, compared to the backup point guard. Ashley needs to move on and focus on what she has going on now.
 
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Are you a relative trying to stir SH—? She was and is not even close to the player Rori is.... I have no doubt Gerlich is behind the curtain pulling the strings....... I can’t wait til we play them!!!
 
LeoBenz74 said:
Did you happen to see Ashley on IG live…spoke very poorly of Vic and coaching staff, it’s eye opening on the examples she spoke of. One take away is that when Rori came in everyone stopped investing in her.
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What was eye opening about it?
 
LeoBenz74 said:
Did you happen to see Ashley on IG live…spoke very poorly of Vic and coaching staff, it’s eye opening on the examples she spoke of. One take away is that when Rori came in everyone stopped investing in her.
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For my own peace of mind, I quit following players and coaches on IG and Twitter once they move on from Texas (unless they graduate). I don’t have hard feelings about their departure and I wish them the best at their new schools.

If AC finds extra motivation to excel because she feels slighted during her time at Texas, then more power to her. However, as a comparison, how newsworthy is it if Dawn Staley inherited a 3 star recruit from the previous coaching staff and she accused Staley of not investing time in her because Destanni Henderson or Zia Cooke got all the attention? It sounds petty and frankly, ridiculous.

I’m ready to move on and I hope AC will eventually move on too.
 
LutherIsMyDog said:
For my own peace of mind, I quit following players and coaches on IG and Twitter once they move on from Texas (unless they graduate). I don’t have hard feelings about their departure and I wish them the best at their new schools.

If AC finds extra motivation to excel because she feels slighted during her time at Texas, then more power to her. However, as a comparison, how newsworthy is it if Dawn Staley inherited a 3 star recruit from the previous coaching staff and she accused Staley of not investing time in her because Destanni Henderson or Zia Cooke got all the attention? It sounds petty and frankly, ridiculous.

I’m ready to move on and I hope AC will eventually move on too.
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And there we have it. Thank you!
 
LeoBenz74 said:
Did you happen to see Ashley on IG live…spoke very poorly of Vic and coaching staff, it’s eye opening on the examples she spoke of. One take away is that when Rori came in everyone stopped investing in her.
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I mean...who gives AF what a former player with a GROSSLY over-inflated opinion of her abilities cries out loud about? She acts as though she was this highly sought-after HS All-American Top 10 recruit. She was brought in by Aston in a year when Karen was having unusually bad luck recruiting. Even under the previous staff she was AT BEST a project with an outside chance that she MIGHT develop into a player similar to Celena Rodrigo. Although a decent defender, she is left hand dominant, can't go right, not a good passer, doesn't possess the ability to impose herself offensively, and not that great of a shooter either. When you compare her to Rori she ain't worth AF.
There.. I said it!
Girl, bye.:rolleyes1:
 
LutherIsMyDog said:
For my own peace of mind, I quit following players and coaches on IG and Twitter once they move on from Texas (unless they graduate). I don’t have hard feelings about their departure and I wish them the best at their new schools.

If AC finds extra motivation to excel because she feels slighted during her time at Texas, then more power to her. However, as a comparison, how newsworthy is it if Dawn Staley inherited a 3 star recruit from the previous coaching staff and she accused Staley of not investing time in her because Destanni Henderson or Zia Cooke got all the attention? It sounds petty and frankly, ridiculous.

I’m ready to move on and I hope AC will eventually move on too.
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That was actually summed up quite well
 
LeoBenz74 said:
Did you happen to see Ashley on IG live…spoke very poorly of Vic and coaching staff, it’s eye opening on the examples she spoke of. One take away is that when Rori came in everyone stopped investing in her.
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But, she was diagnosed with depression during her first season at Texas according to her writeup a few days ago, right? But, still came back for the summer and her second Fall season. Rori came in June 2021. THEN, she became disgruntled with her role on the team it seems.

Check out the tweet below from Ashley's Mom in July 2201. Everything seemed better than okay. What's obvious now is that she became jealous of Rori and could not get past it; so bitter and jealous that she had to quit the team in November and not help her team for the rest of the semester (2-3 weeks).

In football, the projected starting QB gets the majority of the reps with the first team in practice; in baseball, the projected starting pitchers get more attention in practice than the pitchers who are not starters, relievers, or closers. Not sure why Ashley would expect to get more practice time if the coaches had already decided Rori was going to be the starter. Vic constantly referred to Rori as "special" way before she ever started a game for Texas; sorry if that bothered Ashley.

 
LeoBenz74 said:
Did you happen to see Ashley on IG live…spoke very poorly of Vic and coaching staff, it’s eye opening on the examples she spoke of. One take away is that when Rori came in everyone stopped investing in her.
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Not sure I'd let Ashley be doing any "eye opening." She got beat out for a starting position by a player with generational-level talent, who then went on to win 4 all-conference honors, make honorable mention all-American, and led a team with only one returning starter to the Elite-8 and a conference tournament championship. Her response to the decision was to just abandon her team prior to mid-season and leave them without their backup point guard. Many thousands of individuals (athletes and non-athletes alike) throughout time have lost positions they wanted to someone that others perceived to be better at that position. Its just part of life. But the way she handled it says far more about Ashley than it could possibly say about anyone else. Its pretty clear that she left her teammates (and, dare I say, "friends") in a bind, mid-season, because she said she needed to go work on her mental health. I'd like to take her word on that. But by continuing to harp on it and trash a program that she suddenly found herself not comfortable with (in her 2nd year with the same staff, mind you) all she does is draw attention to a fact that no one (other than her) would have thought or cared about - her losing a starting spot. If you want more PT, just finish the damn season and give it your very best like a good, unselfish teammate would, and then transfer somewhere else that offers you want you want. That's what almost every person who hits the portal does. There's no reason for having to explain why you did what you did unless you are just concerned about the way it looked - which is apparently the case.

Anyone who is fooled by the campaign to draw attention to whatever this drama queen wants to draw attention to needs to only know this: on the day she posted her long, deeply thought out social media post purporting to raise mental health awareness, she also posted a tiktok video. The name of it is "compliance hmu (i.e. - hit me up) if you want the tea." In the video she sings along to lyrics from a song which says "Boy, I'm finna tell on you", and the caption on the video is "When you not on scholarship anymore so there is nothing keeping from telling the truth about a program." Does this sound like a real victim trying to raise awareness for the need to provide whatever support she thought she wasn't getting? Or someone who feels scorned or embarrassed about the way she left, and wants to blame someone else for her actions? I guess she'll fit right in at Tech. Tech fans responding to her twitter post were all to eager to offer her sympathy and encouragement, crown her as a hero, and to opine that this all reinforces what they already knew about that dastardly school in Austin. Give me a f#%*ing break! She's all yours Tech. There's your new team leader. And I've got news for you . . . she ain't gonna change. I guess it kinda gives new meaning to the phrase "wreck-'em".
 
Born in ATX said:
Not sure I'd let Ashley be doing any "eye opening." She got beat out for a starting position by a player with generational-level talent, who then went on to win 4 all-conference honors, make honorable mention all-American, and led a team with only one returning starter to the Elite-8 and a conference tournament championship. Her response to the decision was to just abandon her team prior to mid-season and leave them without their backup point guard. Many thousands of individuals (athletes and non-athletes alike) throughout time have lost positions they wanted to someone that others perceived to be better at that position. Its just part of life. But the way she handled it says far more about Ashley than it could possibly say about anyone else. Its pretty clear that she left her teammates (and, dare I say, "friends") in a bind, mid-season, because she said she needed to go work on her mental health. I'd like to take her word on that. But by continuing to harp on it and trash a program that she suddenly found herself not comfortable with (in her 2nd year with the same staff, mind you) all she does is draw attention to a fact that no one (other than her) would have thought or cared about - her losing a starting spot. If you want more PT, just finish the damn season and give it your very best like a good, unselfish teammate would, and then transfer somewhere else that offers you want you want. That's what almost every person who hits the portal does. There's no reason for having to explain why you did what you did unless you are just concerned about the way it looked - which is apparently the case.

Anyone who is fooled by the campaign to draw attention to whatever this drama queen wants to draw attention to needs to only know this: on the day she posted her long, deeply thought out social media post purporting to raise mental health awareness, she also posted a tiktok video. The name of it is "compliance hmu (i.e. - hit me up) if you want the tea." In the video she sings along to lyrics from a song which says "Boy, I'm finna tell on you", and the caption on the video is "When you not on scholarship anymore so there is nothing keeping from telling the truth about a program." Does this sound like a real victim trying to raise awareness for the need to provide whatever support she thought she wasn't getting? Or someone who feels scorned or embarrassed about the way she left, and wants to blame someone else for her actions? I guess she'll fit right in at Tech. Tech fans responding to her twitter post were all to eager to offer her sympathy and encouragement, crown her as a hero, and to opine that this all reinforces what they already knew about that dastardly school in Austin. Give me a f#%*ing break! She's all yours Tech. There's your new team leader. And I've got news for you . . . she ain't gonna change. I guess it kinda gives new meaning to the phrase "wreck-'em".
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I suspect, given the energy that exists between the Texas and Tech coaching staffs, that there may be some ventriloquism going on here. Any coach with any sense of class whatsoever would not only have made their player take down that first social media post, but would have also forbidden it to go any further. But then again who are we talking about? Gerlich... a personification of classlessness. If she is hanging her hopes on AC running her offense for the next 3 years she'd better get used to being one of the Big 12 cellar dwellers.
 
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Personally, I'm not worried about Tech. They went 11-19 this past season with one of the best players they've had in several years (Vivian Gray) who actually stayed a minimum of 2 years. I don't think Tech has any incoming players who are near Gray's level of talent. If they ever make the NCAA post-season under Gerlich, I'll be shocked.

So, the only thing I'll be watching at Tech in the future is who of Gerlich or Chevalier leaves Lubbock first (voluntarily or involuntarily) . . .
 
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Born in ATX said:
Not sure I'd let Ashley be doing any "eye opening." She got beat out for a starting position by a player with generational-level talent, who then went on to win 4 all-conference honors, make honorable mention all-American, and led a team with only one returning starter to the Elite-8 and a conference tournament championship. Her response to the decision was to just abandon her team prior to mid-season and leave them without their backup point guard. Many thousands of individuals (athletes and non-athletes alike) throughout time have lost positions they wanted to someone that others perceived to be better at that position. Its just part of life. But the way she handled it says far more about Ashley than it could possibly say about anyone else. Its pretty clear that she left her teammates (and, dare I say, "friends") in a bind, mid-season, because she said she needed to go work on her mental health. I'd like to take her word on that. But by continuing to harp on it and trash a program that she suddenly found herself not comfortable with (in her 2nd year with the same staff, mind you) all she does is draw attention to a fact that no one (other than her) would have thought or cared about - her losing a starting spot. If you want more PT, just finish the damn season and give it your very best like a good, unselfish teammate would, and then transfer somewhere else that offers you want you want. That's what almost every person who hits the portal does. There's no reason for having to explain why you did what you did unless you are just concerned about the way it looked - which is apparently the case.

Anyone who is fooled by the campaign to draw attention to whatever this drama queen wants to draw attention to needs to only know this: on the day she posted her long, deeply thought out social media post purporting to raise mental health awareness, she also posted a tiktok video. The name of it is "compliance hmu (i.e. - hit me up) if you want the tea." In the video she sings along to lyrics from a song which says "Boy, I'm finna tell on you", and the caption on the video is "When you not on scholarship anymore so there is nothing keeping from telling the truth about a program." Does this sound like a real victim trying to raise awareness for the need to provide whatever support she thought she wasn't getting? Or someone who feels scorned or embarrassed about the way she left, and wants to blame someone else for her actions? I guess she'll fit right in at Tech. Tech fans responding to her twitter post were all to eager to offer her sympathy and encouragement, crown her as a hero, and to opine that this all reinforces what they already knew about that dastardly school in Austin. Give me a f#%*ing break! She's all yours Tech. There's your new team leader. And I've got news for you . . . she ain't gonna change. I guess it kinda gives new meaning to the phrase "wreck-'em".
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Yep. And again, not to minimize mental health but a lot of athletes now, college and pro are using "mental health" as a way to absolve themselves from any pushback/criticism and responsibility when they make bad decisions, or when things don't go their way.

It's also become a way for them to make a quick buck whether it's from actual money or social capital.
 
Well that settles one thing for me (after reading these responses), I’m not wasting an hour to see if she explained why she turned down Stanford in there somewhere lol

Plus, I’ve not heard anything “eye opening” that can’t be boiled down to playing time.

And yes, the way she’s handled this (especially since she slithered onto the Tech roster), says a lot more about her (and her new coach).

Gerlich thinks she’s going to elevate her program by trashing Texas’. This is not a Swoopes moment (and I’m not comparing AC to Swoopes, I’m talking about other things that the older crowd here will completely understand).
 
Sorry guys my post when I said “eye opening” I meant that in my opinion she sounded very shady towards the Texas coaching staff, I actually thought while watching it that she is liking the attention she is receiving. She did say that Vic would make “fun” of the players, and she once again said that several current players are battling the same issues that she was battling. It sounded like a very vindictive hit piece…once again strictly my opinion.
 
Y’all are too worried about what one disgruntled player has to say. It was obvious to everyone including herself she was literally the least talented player on our team; TTU is the perfect fit.

The University of Texas just went to the elite eight. I don’t think too many serious recruits or transfer athletes are going to pay too much stock into what Ashley Chevalier has to say, literally no one even knows who she is.

We are better without her. Let the teenager be a teenager and stop giving her a platform to exercise her immaturity.
 
xdxmmxchxxl said:
Y’all are too worried about what one disgruntled player has to say. It was obvious to everyone including herself she was literally the least talented player on our team; TTU is the perfect fit.

The University of Texas just went to the elite eight. I don’t think too many serious recruits or transfer athletes are going to pay too much stock into what Ashley Chevalier has to say, literally no one even knows who she is.

We are better without her. Let the teenager be a teenager and stop giving her a platform to exercise her immaturity.
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Well said... the trash has taken itself out while we're busy building a contender.
 
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