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Hoopgurlz article with predictions for 2009, the first being...

1. Kelsey Bone, Sugar Land, Texas: The most high-profile prospect in years to wait until the spring to sign her national letter of intent, the Dulles High School senior will cause many in her home state to jump for joy by revealing Texas A&M as her college choice.

i sure hope that prediction doesn't prove to be true come April
 
Fun article by Nelson but I like our chances. We just have to be patient and let KB do her thang! Also like our chances with TH.

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i'm not sure that they would have room for Horn either. but i never know a school's exact scholarship count. Alex Fuller is their only upperclassman as of now. Cait McMahan is a redshirt sophomore. so she could be done after next season, if she graduates in four years. but if she stays and uses all 4 years of eligibility, i don't see how they would have a scholarship to add Horn.
 
Maybe they know more about McMahan than we do but if she stays for all 4 yrs. of eligibility, I don't see the scholarship available for Horn either.
HA...Horn could be a "Horn"!!!
 
Let's keep things in perspective:
1) Glenn Nelson of Hoopgurlz.com made a prediction; he has a 1 in 4 chance of being correct

2) When Kelsey announced her final 5 schools last Fall, she did so through Mike Flynn of BlueStar Basketball

3) Mike Flynn has commented on Nelson's prediction:

As for the Kelsey Bone going to Texas A&M posting here, I don't know if that was a reaction to something posted somewhere else. Who knows, but I can tell you that Kelsey Bone won't be giving a verbal until April. When you get down to a final list it doesn't take much to put out there a possible choice so you look good later on. I have refrained from posting any comment on any school in fairness to those coaches who are still in the process. There is an old recruiting ploy to call a player and say, "hey, I've heard you committed to another school (always from some unknown source) and we want to know where we stand” The obvious answer is to respond, "Oh no, I didn't" just to protect the power of your choice and then hate on the school that was named as trying to preempt that choice. That's an old but always favorite ploy. Kim Williams and Kelsey Bone are too smart for those tricks of the trade and it’s this point that has everyone angry. Kelsey is choosing on her terms not those manufactured by media and fans of the final schools. Don't think Kelsey doesn’t understand that by this time next year no one will care about the date she signed just that she did.

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Good post Moooooo........
I've read it over and over and over, but still don't have a clue!!?? The recruiting ploy, the history of it, the reaction to it...questions, questions, etc.
For ME, all i can get from Kelsey's whole decision process will come down to HEART. I'm sure that Cokie signing with TX had an impact, but not a huge one. Doesn't mean that Kelsey will not have the same amount of playing time as she'd get at A&M...as we lose Ashley and Aubry. A&M has some top frosh already with 5 more coming in. As of now, we only have 2 coming in. I'm not afraid or ashamed to say that Kelsey could have some great PT here at TX.
Again, i think her decision will come from the heart...and that will make Kelsey be the best player she could possibly be!
 
I'm sure most of us here think Texas is the best place for Kelsey; conversely, most on the Aggies' board think A&M is best for her. In my opinion, both have a lot to offer her.

No one knows for sure if the race for Kelsey is down to only UT and A&M, so let's keep that in mind, as she hasn't publicly eliminated South Carolina or Illinois.

Here are the pros (limiting them to basketbal-related items as academics, networking, tradition are apples/oranges among each school) for Texas as I see them:

1) Losing 2 senior post players after this season opens up significant playing time for incoming post players

2) Only underclassmen post player on the roster is freshman, Ashley Gayle; Earnesia Williams is an undersized PF, and it's not yet clear if she will return next season for her final year of eligibility

3) Ashley Gayle played with Kelsey Bone on the West Coast Elite AAU team in the summer of 2007

4) Texas signed one post player for 2009 so far in Cokie Reed; it's been said Cokie can slide to Power Forward; Cokie played summer ball with post player Nikki Green with DFW Elite, so she's proven she can co-exist with another post player on the floor

5) Being able to practice with/against two other quality post players in Ashley Gayle and Cokie Reed on a daily basis


6) Coach G has developed some great post players at Duke, such as Michelle van Gorp and Allison Bales

7) Coach Mickie Demoss has probably helped coach and develop more post players than any assistant coach in the country while at Tennessee -- Daedra Charles, Dana Johnson, Pashen Thompson, Abby Conklin, Vonda Ward, Ashley Robinson, Michelle Snow, Tiffany Johnson, Sheila Frost, Carla McGhee, Gwen Jackson -- to name a few

8) A great returning cast of veteran players (especially in the backcourt and on the wing) to make a run at the Final Four in San Antonio in 2010

9) Hosting a sub-regional in 2010

10) Playing in a marquee pre-season event in San Antonio against UConn in November 2009

Again, I'm sure other schools have their own set of pros, but those are some of ours . . .
 
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