CJW is a victim to much of the change in culture that affects Women Sports the same way it is affecting Men’s College Sports; which explains why men like Jay Wright, and Tony Bennett retired.

Verhulst did not deserve any more minutes during her brief time at UL than she received. I do not profess to know firsthand why Verhulst left so early, but given Jeff’s success managing so many talented players effectively over so many successful seasons, I am reluctant to place the blame on him. In truth, there are factors involved with kids today that are not predictable, nor are they going to make sense to those of us watching. HVL’s departure is an example of a coach and school doing everything possible to advance and accommodate a player’s future, but she and her father decided it was not enough.

Lastly, Cochran and Harris are loyal to CJW and UL; whatever struggle they are experiencing on the court should not result in fans attacking them. I will support Jeff and these kids win or lose this year, and hope they can gain from the high level of competition over the course of this season. I saw the team was going to struggle early on, primarily based on so many true freshman acclimating to College basketball.

Most exciting match I have ever witnessed in WVB. Some may question why it was so close, one that it easily could have resulted in the end of a chance to host a NC, but to witness the manner in which UL’s women refused to lose might qualify as a miracle win. There were multiple MATCH POINTS for UNI, where several UL players simply came up strong.

This is a good thread. Everyone knows their stuff on here. A couple of thoughts:
agree 100% about needing NFL talent, especially on defense. Not sure how many NFL caliber guys will be in portal. Need to develop some younger dudes. We definitely blew the Stanford game. We did start the ND game with a fumble recovery on the opening kickoff, so that could be viewed as luck on our side. The UVA and BC games both came down to the wire. Ultimately, I think we probably were a 9-3 team with an 8-4 record. We only had 6 home games and next year that goes to 8. I’m excited for the future. Having the Clemson and UK albatrosses off our neck is part of the upward trajectory process.

I cannot stand Clemson. But this was a great result. Either ACC will now get two playoff teams or this whole playoff will be fully exposed as a SEC/Big 10 circle jerk.

They are a great program. You have to knock them out. Pitt had them. SMU pushed them to the limit but Clemson they find a way. I tend to not blame coaches players either make plays or they don’t. I agree kicking it out of the end zone probably forces OT. No guarantee SMU wins in OT.

It really is the best result for ACC.

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Walz says he's pissed and he should be at himself. He's wasting his time with Harris and Cochran. Both could have four more years of eligibility and both would still hardly improve.

Now I appreciate their loyalty, especially in this day and age, but I believe it's mostly due because Walz didn't bring others in who are better. The two other front court players that back up the starters are clearly not ACC worthy.

Cochran and Harris knew they would still receive most of the minutes so they stayed, and we're seeing how that is working out.

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Not sure if it was homesickness or that CJW didn’t think she could keep up defensively or she didn’t think she was getting the minutes she deserved. I too, thought she should have been playing more but who I am. Hope she doesn’t torch us next week.

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She did 🥺

I mean ask any Louisville fan would they have thought there was anyway possible the Cards would do what Clemson did to win the ACC championship?

With 18 seconds remaining I can hear me now, "Hey everyone, don't fret, all we need to do is return the kick to the 45 yard line, then run one pass play for 20 more yards, call a timeout with 2 seconds and then make a 56 yard FG."

Easy peasy.

Yeah right. Only programs like Clemson have that kind of good luck. I would probably grab my chest if Louisville ever did something like that.

I was pulling for SMU.

I wanted the newbie’s to rock the blue bloods.

I hate the acc and hope all but us lose every week. 🤷‍♂️

I’m past caring about “perception”.

They hate us. I hate em back.

I agree with all of that. But when a team kicks a 56 yard FG after along KO runback and a good pass play to get into position to kick the long azz FG...they found a way to win and did it. Hats off to them.

Why did SMU do that KO that way? Should have squibbed it or something unreturnable.
Big Tactical mistake and it cost them the game. I was thinking that SMU should have gone for 2 too.

They definitely should be in the playoff though. ACC deserves at least 2. And poor poor Miami left out in the cold. Oh well.

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Well our 9 freshmen did pretty good when they put their bench players in. If you take this team and put Peyton Verhulst and HVL back on this team you have a totally different team. HVL left and went to LSU to be a failed point guard. Now she is at TCU and is a shooting guard like she was at Louisville and her numbers are back up.

Verhulst left because she was a 5 star recruit who sat on the bench. Now she is at Oklahoma knocking down 3 pointers and is a rising star. I hope the coaches have learned from the Verhulst mistake. In regarding to tonight’s game it says a lot about us but what does it say about the other top 20 teams we played and they were close games. How good are those teams really are?